How Mirabai Chanu won the Olympics- An inspiring journey !!
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saikhom Mirabai Chanu is an Indian woman weightlifter who has won the silver medal in the ongoing Olympics in Tokyo. She has won the silver medal in the 49 kg weightlifting category.
She is the 2nd Indian women weightlifter to win in an Olympic; the first woman to win a medal in an Olympic was karnam malware, who had won a bronze medal.
Let's know more about her:-
Saikhom Mirabai Chanu was born on August 8, 1994, in nongpok, catching about 30 meters away from Imphal, Manipur.
She was born in a low-income family, and her ability to weightlift was recognized when she was only 12; she could lift a Huge bundle of firewood easily when her elder brother found it even hard to pick it up.
Her journey
In the commonwealth game, Mirabai Chanu won the 48 kg weightlifting category.
Chanu qualified for Rio Olympics in 2016 in the 48 kg weightlifting category. Still, she failed to finish that event because She couldn't lift the weights in the clean and jerk segment while lifting weights only 1 time properly in the snatch segment out of 3.
2. After 1 year in 2017, she won A gold medal in the women's 48 Kg category by lifting a competition record of 194 kg in total ( 85 Kg in snatch and 109Kg in clean and jerk segment ) in Anaheim, CA, united states.
3. in the 2018 commonwealth games, she lifted 196 Kg ( 86 kg in snatch and 110kg in clean and jerk) and Won A gold medal for India.
4. At the 2019 world weightlifting championship, she lifted a total of 201 Kgs ( 87kg in snatch and 114 Kgs in the clean and jerk segment )
but finished at 4th.
she broke her personal record again four months later when she lifted 203kg in total ( 88 kg in snatch and 117 in the clean and jerk segment)
5. In April 2021, she won a bronze medal at the 2020 Asian weightlifting championship.
6. And in June 2021, Chanu became the only Indian weightlifter to Qualify for the summer Olympics.
Her performance in Olympic
Mirabai Chanu snatch performance
1st attempt - 84 kg, Succeed
2nd attempt- 87 Kg, Succeed
3rd attempt - 89Kg, failed
so her final score in the snatch segment was 87 kg out of 3 attempts.
Mirabai Chanu Clean and jerk performance
1st attempt- 110kg, succeed
2nd attempt- 115 kg, succeed
3rd attempt- 117 kg, failed
so her total score in this segment was 115Kg out of 3 attempts.
So in total, she had a score of 202 Kg.
On the other hand, the first rank holder Hou Zhihua had scored a total of 210 Kg.
And Third place went to an Indonesian weightlifter.
Conclusion-
In the weightlifting journey, she used to go to a training center in his initial days of training, which was 22Km away from his home. she had to take 2 buses to reach that training center.
Furthermore, she also failed many times and got a back injury, and she stayed away from weightlifting for 1 year.
Her weightlifting journey is really inspiring for all of us as she never gave up and got what she deserves.
Hope you all readers may have learned something from this inspiring journey of Saikhom Mirabai Chanu.
Sources - Wikipedia and News.
How Mirabai Chanu won the Olympics- An inspiring journey
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