Mirabai Chanu, a native of Manipur’s capital city Imphal, was born on August 8, 1994, and is 26 years old. She won her first gold medal in a local weightlifting competition when she was 11 years old. She then went on to win medals at both the World and Asian Junior Championships. Her idol is Indian weightlifter Kunjarani Devi.
Mirabai Chanu, who began carrying firewood as a kid, is now a well-known weightlifter in India. Saikhom Mirabai Chanu, a girl from Manipur’s East Imphal district, made history by winning silver in the Women’s 49kg Weightlifting event at the Tokyo Olympics. She began competing internationally at an early age, winning international medals and achieving fame. Mirabai Chanu was a favorite in the women’s 49kg event at the Tokyo Olympics 2020.
ACHIEVEMENT
- Mirabai Chanu debuted on the international stage at the age of 20 when she won a silver medal in the 48kg division at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.
- In 2017, Mirabai won gold at the World Weightlifting Championships in Anaheim, California. She was the first Indian weightlifter to do so in two decades.
- In 2019, She made the event memorable by breaking the 200kg barrier for the first time in her career, despite finishing fourth at the World Championships in Thailand.
- She set a new world record in the women’s 49kg clean and jerk with a lift of 119kgs at the Asian weightlifting championships in Tashkent.
- In 2018, she received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India’s highest civilian sporting honour. Chanu was awarded the Padma Shri by the Indian government in 2018.
- Mirabai Chanu, the only Indian weightlifter competing in the Tokyo Olympics 2020, won a silver medal.
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