Tokyo Olympics 2020:After the tears of 2016 this smile of 2021 – Mirabai Chanu created history, gave India a medal in weightlifting
After the tears of 2016 this smile of 2021
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Mirabai Chanu created history, gave India a medal in weightlifting
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Saikhom Mirabai Chanu has won the first medal for India in Tokyo Olympics 2020. Mirabai Chanu won the silver medal in the 49 kg women’s weightlifting event. Mirabai Chanu lifted 87 kg in snatch, while 115 kg in clean and jerk. In this way, she lifted a total of 202 kg, with which Mirabai Chanu became the second Indian to win a medal in weightlifting, while the first Indian to win a silver.
Mirabai Chanu, who ended India’s 21-year wait for a medal in the Olympic weightlifting event, won a silver medal in the 49kg category, while her triumphant smile filled all the tears that poured into her eyes after her failure in Rio five years ago. flowed from
She had been weeping from the same stage after a disappointing debut in the great Games five years ago. With his historic win, India has now moved up to second place in the medal tally, a feat the country had never achieved before.
21 year drought in weightlifting ends
India has got a medal in weightlifting after 21 years. Earlier, Karnam Malleswari had won bronze in weightlifting for the country in the Sydney Olympics 2000.