Ragala Venkat Rahul

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Ragala Venkat Rahul is an Indian weightlifter who booked a ticket for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in June 2022.He was born and brought up in Stuartpuram, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, India.In the 90s, his father, who himself is a sportsperson, enrolled Ragala and his brother in a sports school in Hakimpet, Telangana, where they studied till the 3rd standard. Later, his father collected Rs 25 lakh and shifted to Hyderabad along with his family. In an interview, his father talked about the potential of his sons to become accomplished sportspersons and said, I always believed in the potential of my sons and know that they will win medals in the Commonwealth Games. Though I am a sportsman myself, I never got any encouragement, and that made me determined to train my sons..Ragala received his training in weightlifting from Telangana State Sports School.In 2012, he won his first international medal, a gold, at the Youth Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship, held in Samoa.In 2013, he won gold at Asian Youth Games in the 77 kg Mens weightlifting category.In 2014, he won gold at the Asian Youth (YOG Qualification) & Junior Championships in the 77 kg category. In the same year, he won silver at Summer Youth Olympics.In 2015, he started working as a ticket collector at Secunderabad Railway Station.In 2015, 2017, and 2019, he won silver, gold, and silver respectively at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships.In 2017, his brother, Kunal Varun, won gold at the Australian Weightlifting Championship in the 77kg category. Kunal has won more than 60 medals in weightlifting, and Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu once gifted him a cash prize of Rs 25 lakh.