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| Birth name | Mirabai Chanu Saikhom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 August 1994 Nongpok Kakching, Imphal East, Manipur, India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.50 m (4 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 49 kg (108 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 49 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| World finals |  x1  x1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mirabai Chanu (born 9 August 1994) is an Indian weightlifter. She won the silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the Women's 49 kg event. She has won gold medals at the World Championships and Commonwealth Games. She was awarded the Padma Shri and Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna by the Government of India in 2018.
Chanu 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. 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.[3] She is a former world record holder in Clean & Jerk in the 49 kg category. In 2022, she joined I-League club NEROCA as its brand ambassador.[4]
- ^ "Olympic medallist Mirabai Chanu, coach Vijay Sharma thank government for sustained support". The Times of India. 25 July 2021. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ Pakrashi, Sudeep (11 August 2023). "NEROCA FC to strengthen team, plans to invite Mirabai Chanu to motivate the boys before I-League". parallelsports.in. Parallel Sports News. Archived from the original on 9 October 2023. Retrieved 9 October 2023.