Sathish Sivalingam

The President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee presenting the Arjuna Award for the year-2015 to Shri S. Sathish Kumar for Weightlifting, in a glittering ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on August 29, 2015.
Personal information
Birth name	Satish Kumar Sivalingam[1]
Nationality	Indian
Born	(1992-06-23) 23 June 1992 (age 31) Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) (2014)
Weight	77 kg (170 lb) (2018)
Sport
Country	India
Sport	Weightlifting
Event	77 kg
Medal record Men's weightlifting Representing  India Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow 77 kg 2018 Gold Coast 77 kg Commonwealth Championships 2012 Apia 77 kg 2013 Penang 77 kg 2015 Pune 77 kg 2017 Gold Coast 77 kg
Updated on 27 January 2022.

Sathish Sivalingam (born 23 June 1992) is an Indian weightlifter who won gold medals in the men's 77 kg weight class at both the 2014 and the 2018 Commonwealth Games. He is supported by the GoSports Foundation through the Rahul Dravid athlete mentorship programme.

Early life

Sathish was born in Sathuvachari, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India to Sivalingam and Deivanai. His father Sivalingam an ex-serviceman who won gold medals at national level and now works as a security guard at VIT University, Vellore.^[2] Sathish did his schooling in Government Higher Secondary School, Sathuvachari. He works as a clerk in Southern Railways Chennai.^[3]

Career

At the 2018 Commonwealth Games he won gold medal in 77 kg category. He lifted 144 kg in snatch games record and 173 kg in clean and jerk.^[4]

At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Sivalingam won the gold medal in the men's 77 kg, with 149 kg snatch, and 179 kg clean and jerk lifts, totalling 328 kg. His lift of 149 kg in the snatch, set a new games record.^[5]

Sathish qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics in the Men's 77 kg category, where he finished 11th in the field of 14 lifters.^[6]

Achievements

Commonwealth Games

Commonwealth Championships