Lifter Bikash Thapa clinched gold on Friday as Nepal added a second weightlifting gold in the 13th South Asian Games in Pokhara to take their overall tally to 41 gold medals.

In the men’s 89kg division, Thapa secured gold with a 123kg in snatch and 146kg in clean and jerk for a total of 269kg. With the lift, the silver medalist of the last edition of Games in 2016 also bettered his national record of 122 in snatch and 142 in clean and jerk set during the Qualifiers for the Games.

Thapa's gold is a second in the discipline. On Thursday, Sanju Chaudhary had notched a historic gold by winning Nepal’s first woman weightlifting title in history in the 49kg division.

Bangladesh's Md Sakayat Hussain bagged silver (123kg snatch, clean and jerk 145kg) while Pakistan's Abur Rahman withdrew after illness.

In the men’s 81kg division, Pakistan's Haider Ali secured gold with a lift of 142kg in snatch and 176 in clean and jerk. Ajay Singh of India secured silver (140kg snatch, 176 clean and jerk) and Sri Lankan VCG Widange (128kg snatch and 160kg clean and jerk) walked away with the bronze medal.

Similarly, Kamal Bahadur Adhikari (67kg), Prakash KC (73kg), Rajya Laxmi Thapa (71kg) and Devi Chaudhary (64kg) secured four bronze medals for Nepal.