Mirabai Chanu: Olympic champion weightlifter by lifting wooden bundles

The second day of the Tokyo Olympics was a great day for India as the hockey team started off with a win in their first pool match, while weightlifter Mirabai Chanu opened India’s medal account at the Tokyo Olympics with a silver. India’s star weightlifter Mirabai won this medal in the 49 kg category. To win this medal, he lifted 115 kg in clean and jerk and 87 kg in snatch i.e. a total of 202 kg. With this silver medal, Mirabai has become the second Indian to win a medal in weightlifting events at the Olympic Games. Karnam Malleswari won a bronze medal in the 2000 Sydney Olympics before Mirabai Chanu.

Mirabai, a strong contender for the medal, won the silver medal in this way

Mirabai Chanu is India’s leading weightlifter, she was also considered a medal contender in the 2016 Rio Olympics, but her performance there was disappointing. After the disappointment in Rio, Mirabai focused on working on her technique and building strength. The result of that was that she has been winning continuously for the last few years. He won the gold medal at the 2017 World Championship and the 2018 Goldcoast Commonwealth Games. Mirabai had gone to the US with her coach in May to prepare for the Tokyo Olympics. She had reached Japan directly from America to participate in the Olympics.

Mirabai, who lifted a total of 202 kg in clean and germ and snatch, was behind China’s Hou Zhioui by 8 kg. This Chinese weightlifter won the gold medal by lifting a total of 210 kg including 116 kg in clean and jerk and 94 kg in snatch. Indonesian player Aisah Windi Kantika, who won the bronze medal, lifted a total of 194 kg.

Veteran weightlifter Kunjarani Devi inspired Mirabai Chanu

Good news to the people of the country in the morning, Mirabai Chanu, born in East Imphal, Manipur, started doing weightlifting from the year 2007. He got the inspiration to get into this sport from Manipur’s legendary weightlifter Kunjrani Devi. Mirabai soon started impressing everyone with her game. His first major success came when he won gold medals at the 2011 South Asian Junior Games and International Youth Championship.

At the senior level, he earned a name by winning a silver medal in the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Then she lost to compatriot Sanjita Chanu in the gold medal race. He won the gold medal in the 2018 Commonwealth Games by changing the colour of the medal. Experts of this sport were saying for a long time that Mirabai can bring Olympic medal like Malleshwari. He had taken a step in this direction by winning the Commonwealth Gold, the result of which is in front of everyone in the form of Olympic Silver.

The champion weightlifter became the lifting of wooden bundles

Presently Mirabai Chanu works as a senior ticket checker with the Indian Railways. But his initial journey has been full of struggles. Born into a poor family in a village called Nongpok Kakching, 20 km from Imphal, Mirabai, the youngest of six siblings, used to go to a nearby hill to collect wood with her four-year-old brother. At the age of 12, he showed his ability to lift more weight. Then she could easily lift more heavy woods than her elder brother. Collecting wood for firewood from the forest eventually worked in her career and she became the country’s top weightlifter. The most famous and successful weightlifter in India’s Olympic history so far.