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India won their first-ever gold medal at a Youth Olympic Games with Jeremy Lalrinnunga clinching the yellow metal in Men's 62kg weightlifting. This is India's first-ever gold medal at the Youth Olympics. In the two editions prior to this, India's best performance was two medals in the 2014 Youth Olympics at Nanjing, China. In Men's 62kg Group A weightlifting, Jeremy posted successful attempts of 120kg and 124kg in snatch and 142kg and 150kg in clean & jerk. Jeremy had won silver at last year's Youth World Weightlifting Championships in Bangkok, Thailand.