India has won their first medal at the Tokyo Olympics.
And it belongs to the Indian star Mirabai Chanu, who has won silver in the women’s 49kg category.
This is an Indian’s second weightlifting medal at the Olympics as a whole, after KARNAM MALLESWARI, who won bronze at the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
Mirabai, with this has also become the 17th individual Olympic medalist from India (from 1900 to 2021).
Incredible, Mirabai failed to register a clean elevator in clean and jerk at the Rio Olympics in 2016.
The way he got up again was truly extraordinary.
India has opened their medal account in the Tokyo game, thanks to Mirabai’s brilliance.
In the final in Tokyo – two legitimate elevators in Mirabai in the Snatch event were – 84kg and 87kg in the meantime, in clean and jerk events, he had two valid elevators again – 110kg and 115kg total was 202kg (the best snatch lift and the best lift Clean and jerk combined for total).
Total Mirabai (202kg) is 8kg behind the Chinese lifter Hou Zhihui (210kg), which registered a new Olympic record on the way to win a gold medal.
Read out of Weotlifter Mirabai Chanu won silver in the 49kg category at the Tokyo 2020mirabai Olympics Chanu ended 21 years waiting for a weightlifting medal at the Olympics by winning a silver medal in the country category here on Saturday.
The 26-year-old lifted a total of 202kg (87kg + 115kg).
Gold goes to China while Indonesia takes bronze.
India Lasthere All You Need to Know About the New Indian Olympic Star Mirabai Chanu: Name: Mirabai Chanu (Weightlifting) Birthday: August 8, 1994 Age: 26 Birthpoints: Imphal, Manipur Sport / Events: Weightlifting (49kg) Main Achievement: * Silver at the Tokyo Olympics (49kg) * Bronze at 2020 Asian Tashkent Championship (49 kg) * Gold in 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games (48 kg) * Gold in 2017 Anaheim World Championship (48 kg) * Silver in 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games (48 kg) Mirabai Chanu.
(AFP photo) Profile: Mirabai Chanu, 2017 world champion, raised 86kg in seizing and record world 119kg in clean and jerk for a total of 205kg to win a bronze medal in the Asian championship in April.
Clean and the perfect jerk of 119kg is a world record.
Mirabai has a disappointing performance in Rio Games but since then he has won a gold medal in the 2017 and 2018 Commonwealth Games World Championship.
Mirabai must have evolved as weightlifting since the last Olympics, changing and tweaking techniques.
Mirabai went for St.
Louis in the US on May 1 this year, to practice under the strength and coach of Dr.
Aaron Horschig.
He also underwent treatment for his repeated shoulder injury there.
He went to Tokyo straight from there to participate in the Olympics.
Mirabai was in the US in November-December last year to take care of his lower back injury under the guidance of Dr.
Horschig, he has won two Commonwealth game medals (2014 silver and 2018).
He also won a bronze medal in the 49kg category last year.
He was changed Khel Ratna for 2018.
He was also technically the Indian individual Olympic silver medalist (after Norman Pritchard, Rajyvardhan Rathore, Sushil Kumar, Vijay Kumar and PV Sindhu).
And now he will forever remember as an Olympic medalist.