This personal best total also created a new national record in the 49 kg category. She missed out on a bronze medal in 49 kg category at 2019 Asian Weightlifting Championships with a total lift of 199 kg, her personal best, as her Snatch weight was lower than the third place athlete, both of whom had identical totals.Īt the 2019 World Weightlifting Championships, Mirabai lifted a total of 201 kg (87 kg Snatch and 114 kg Clean & Jerk) to finish fourth. En route to the medal, she broke the games record for her weight category the effort also marked her personal best performance. Ĭhanu lifted a total of 196 kg, 86 kg in Snatch and 110 kg in Clean and Jerk to win the first gold medal for India in the 2018 Commonwealth Games. In 2017, she won the gold medal in the Women's 48 kg category by lifting a competition record 194 kg in total (85 kg snatch and 109 kg clean & jerk) in the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships held at Anaheim, California, United States. However, she failed to complete the event, owing to no successful lifts in any of her three attempts in the clean & jerk section. 2016 Rio Olympics Ĭhanu qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics in the women's 48 kg category. The Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting, Youth Affairs and Sports, Anurag Singh Thakur and other ministers and officials felicitating Tokyo Olympics Silver Medalist Saikhom Mirabai Chanu and her coach Vijay Sharma in New Delhi on July 26, 2021.Ĭhanu's first major breakthrough came at the Glasgow edition of the Commonwealth Games she won the silver medal in the 48 kg weight category. She is the current world record holder in Clean & Jerk in the 49 kg category. Prior to the 2020 Summer Olympics, her biggest achievement came in 2017, when she won the gold medal at World Weightlifting Championships held in Anaheim, California. She was awarded the sporting honour Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna by the Government of India in 2018.Ĭhanu won the silver medal in the women's 48 kg weight class at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Glasgow she went on to break the games record en route to the gold medal at the 2018 edition of the event held in Gold Coast. She was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India for her contributions to the sport. Mirabai Chanu has won the World Championships and multiple medals at the Commonwealth Games.
She won the silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in Women's 49 kg category.
27-year-old Mirabai Chanu lifted a total of 201 kg to win the Gold Medal which was also India's third medal after at the ongoing CWG 2022. Saikhom Mirabai Chanu ( Meitei pronunciation: /sái.kʰom mi.ra.bái cə.nu/ born 8 August, 1994) is an Indian weightlifter.
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