Saikhom Mirabai Chanu

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Saikhom Mirabai Chanu
Chanu at the [[2016 South Asian Games]]
Personal information
Nationality India
Born (1994-08-08) 8 August 1994 (age 31)
Nongpok Kakching, Imphal East, Manipur, India
Height1.50 m (4 ft 11 in)
Weight49 kg (108 lb)
Sport
CountryIndia
SportWeightlifting
Event(s)49 kg
Coached byVijay Sharma, Aaron Horschig[1]
Medal record
Women's weightlifting
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place Tokyo 2020 49 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 Anaheim 49 kg
Asian Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tashkent 49 kg
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 2014 Glasgow 48 kg
Gold medal – first place 2018 Gold Coast 48 kg

Saikhom Mirabai Chanu (born 8 August 1994) is an Indian weightlifter.[2] She won Silver at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in Women's 49 kg, securing India's first medal of the games.[3][4][5] A regular presence in international events since 2014 in the 48 kg category, Mirabai Chanu has won the World Championships and multiple medals at the Commonwealth Games. She was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India for her contributions to the sport. She was the first Indian lifter to win a silver at the Olympics and the second to win a medal after Karnam Malleswari's bronze in Sydney 2000. She was awarded Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award by the Government of India in 2018.

Chanu had 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. Her biggest achievement came in 2017, when she won the gold medal at World Weightlifting Championships held in Anaheim, California

Early life

Saikhom Mirabai Chanu was born on 8 August 1994 in Nongpok Kakching, Imphal, Manipur, to a Meitei family. Her family identified her strength from an early age when she was just 12. She could easily carry a huge bundle of firewood home when her elder brother found it hard to even pick it up.[6]

Career

Chanu's first major breakthrough came at the Glasgow edition of the Commonwealth Games; she won the silver medal in the 48 kg weight category.[7]

Chanu qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics in the women's 48 kg category. However, she failed to finish the event, owing to no successful lifts in any of her three attempts in the clean & jerk section.[8] 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, CA, United States.[9]

In 2021, Mirabai Chanu became the 1st and only woman Indian weightlifter to qualify for the 2021 Summer Games by securing the 2nd position in the 49kg category.[10][11] The 27 year old, lifted 86 kg in snatch and then created the world record by lifting a massive 119 kg in the clean and jerk, for a total of 205 kg, which won her a Bronze medal and a ticket for Tokyo Olympics.[12]

Chanu 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 Commonwealth Games 2018.[13] En route to the medal, she broke the games record for the weight category; the effort also marked her personal best performance.[14] She won Bronze in Clean and Jerk at 49 kg Category in 2019 Asian Weightlifting Championships. The total weight of 199 kg was her best ever and she just missed out on a bronze medal as her Snatch weight was lower than the third place athlete, both of whom had an identical total. At the 2019 World Weightlifting Championships, Mirabai lifted a total of 201kgs (87kgs Snatch and 114kgs Clean & Jerk) to finish 4th.[15] This personal best total also created a new national record in the 49kg category. She broke her personal record again four months later when she lifted 203kgs (88kgs in Snatch and 115kg in Clean & Jerk,) in the 49kg category to win the gold medal at the 2020 Senior National Weightlifting Championships.[16]

Chanu won the silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, becoming the 1st Indian weightlifter to win silver in Olympics, winning a silver medal in 49kg weightlifting with a total lift of 202 kg.[17][18] Chanu managed to lift a total of 202 kg in the women's 49kg category to become the second Indian weightlifter after Karnam Malleswari to win an Olympic medal. A new Olympic record was registered by Mirabai Chanu with a successful lift of 115kg in clean and jerk.[19]

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Mirabai Chanu at the Tokyo Olympics 2020

She was awarded USD $1,400,000 from a private donor in India for successfully winning an Olympic medal.

Major results

Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
Olympic Games
2016 Brazil Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 48 kg 82 82 84 6 103 106 106 ― NM ―
2020 Japan Tokyo, Japan 49 kg 84 87 89 2 110 115 117 2 202 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
World Championships
2017 United States Anaheim, United States 48 kg 83 85 85 2 103 107 109 1 194 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2019 Thailand Pattaya, Thailand 49 kg 84 87NR 89 5 111 114NR 118 4 201NR 4
National Championships
2020 India Kolkata, India 49 kg 85 88NR 90 1st place, gold medalist(s) 111 115NR 117 1st place, gold medalist(s) 203NR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Asian Championships
2020 Uzbekistan Tashkent, Uzbekistan 49 kg 85 85 86 4 113 117 119WR 1 205NR 3
2019 China Ningbo, China 49 kg 83 86 86 4 109 113 115 3 199 4
Commonwealth Games
2018 Australia Gold Coast, Australia 48 kg 80 84 86NR 1st place, gold medalist(s) 103 107 110NR 1st place, gold medalist(s) 196NR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2014 Scotland Glasgow, Scotland 48 kg 72 75 75 2 92 95 98 2 170 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
The President of India presenting the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award to Chanu at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi.

Awards

National

Other

  • ₹20 lakh (US$28,000) from the Government of Manipur for the gold medal in the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships.[22]
  • ₹10 lakh (US$14,000) from the Government of Manipur for qualifying for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics.[23]


For winning the silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics

See also

References

  1. ↑ Kaushik Deka (19 July 2021). "Lifting hope Saikhom Mirabai Chanu". India Today. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ↑ "Sensational Mirabai Chanu snatches silver at Tokyo Olympics". The Economic Times. 24 July 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  4. ↑ "Tokyo Olympics: Indian weightlifter Saikhom Mirabai Chanu wins silver medal". Web News Observer. 24 July 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ↑ "Tokyo Olympics 2021 Live: Mirabai Chanu wins silver, India's first medal at Tokyo 2020". The Times of India. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  6. ↑ "Explained: Mirabai's Olympic medal, and why Manipur is churning out world-class weightlifters". The Indian Express. 24 July 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  7. ↑ "Lifter Sanjita Khumukcham wins India's first gold medal at 2014 Commonwealth Games". 24 July 2014.
  8. ↑ "Rio Olympics 2016: India's Saikhom Mirabai Chanu fails to complete weightlifting event". First Post. 7 August 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  9. ↑ "Mirabai Chanu wins gold at world Weightlifting Championships". 30 November 2017.
  10. ↑ Rohan Sen (12 June 2021). "Tokyo Olympics: Mirabai Chanu becomes 1st Indian weightlifter to qualify for 2021 Summer Games". India Today. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  11. ↑ "Tokyo 2020: Mirabai Chanu becomes 1st Indian weightlifter to win silver in Olympics". India Today. 24 July 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  12. ↑ Kaushik Deka (19 July 2021). "Lifting hope: Saikhom Mirabai Chanu". India Today. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  13. ↑ "Mirabai Won Gold".
  14. ↑ "Highlights, Commonwealth Games 2018 Gold Coast: Weightlifters Mirabai Chanu, P Gururaja bring India glory on Day 1 - Sports News , Firstpost".
  15. ↑ https://www.iwf.net/new_bw/results_by_events/?event=472
  16. ↑ "Mirabai Chanu breaks personal record to win national championship". Olympic Channel. 4 February 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  17. ↑ Oliver, Brian (24 July 2021). "Gold for China and disappointment for United States in first weightlifting event of Tokyo 2020". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  18. ↑ "Mirabai Chanu wins Silver medal in the women's 49 kg weightlifting competition: All you need to know". SportsTiger. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  19. ↑ "Mirabai Chanu Silver Tokyo 2020". IndiaToday. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  20. ↑ "World weightlifting champion Mirabai gets Rs 20 lakh". Zee News. 27 January 2018. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  21. ↑ "Padma awards 2018 announced, MS Dhoni, Sharda Sinha among 85 recipients: Here's complete list". India TV. 25 January 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  22. ↑ "Rs 20 lakh reward for champion lifter Mirabai Chanu". Indian Express. 28 January 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  23. ↑ "Manipur star weightlifter receives ₹10 lakh incentive from state govt". The Northeast Today. 24 June 2021. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
  24. ↑ Sharma, Nitin (12 July 2021). "Rs 6 crore or Rs 25 lakh for Olympics gold? Home state key to cash prize". Indian Express. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  25. ↑ Leivon, Jimmy (28 June 2021). "Manipur govt announces Rs. 1.2 crore to athletes who win gold in Tokyo Olympics". Indian Express. Retrieved 24 July 2021.

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