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Saikhom Mirabai Chanu

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Born
1994 (30 years old)

Birth Place

Nongpok Kakching, India

Position
Weightlifter

Status
Active

Ethnicity
Asian

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Height
1.50 m (4 ft 11 in)

Weight
49 kg (108 lb)

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India Weightlifting Women

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League
Olympics Weightlifting

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					Womens 49kg Final	24 Jul 21

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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. 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.