EVERYTHING, YOU NEED TO KNOW
ABOUT
MS. MIRABAI CHANU
India has won its first medal at the Tokyo Olympics. And it's courtesy India's star weightlifter Mirabai Chanu, who has won the silver in the women's 49kg category.
This is India's second weightlifting medal at the Olympics overall, after Karnam Malleswari, who won the bronze at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Mirabai, with this has also become overall the 17th individual Olympic medallist from India (from 1900 to 2021).
Name: Mirabai Chanu (Weightlifting)
Date of Birth: August 8, 1994
Age: 26
Birth Place: Imphal, Manipur
Sport/Event(s): Weightlifting (49 KG)
Major achievements:
- Silver in Tokyo Olympics 2020 (49kg)
- Bronze in 2020 Tashkent Asian Championships (49 kg)
- Gold in 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games (48 kg)
- Gold in 2017 Anaheim World Championships (48 kg)
- Silver in 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games (48 kg)
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