Tokyo 2020: Mirabai Chanu turns into 1st Indian weightlifter to win silver in Olympics

India’s star weightlifter Mirabai Chanu got here up with a heroic efficiency on Saturday to win the silver medal within the girls’s 49kg occasion on Day 1 of the Tokyo Olympics 2020. Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu was in motion in girls’s 49kg. (Twitter Photo)HIGHLIGHTSIndian weightlifter Mirabai Chanu wins silver in girls’s 49kgMirabai Chanu’s silver medal is India’s first on the Tokyo OlympicsMirabai Chanu turns into 2nd Indian weightlifter after Karnam Malleswari to win Olympics medalIndia’s star weightlifter Mirabai Chanu created historical past on Saturday as she grew to become the primary Indian weightlifter to win the silver medal when she earned the medal within the girls’s 49kg occasion on Day 1 of the Tokyo Olympics 2020. Also, This is India’s first on the Tokyo Games. Chanu is the second weightlifter after Karnam Malleswari to win an Olympics’ medal for India.

Chanu lifted 84kg and 87kg efficiently however did not raise 89kg as she was positioned within the second spot after snatch whereas China’s HOU Zhihu lifted 94kg to create an Olympic file. Mirabai Chanu equaled her private finest in a snatch of 87kg. She lifted 87kg in Snatch when she gained the gold medal on the World Championships in 2017.5 years in the past, Mirabai had headed to her maiden Olympic Games at Rio as one of many massive Indian hopes, however she suffered a poor outing. Mirabai has the world file of 119kg in clear and jerk on the 2021 Asian Weightlifting Championships.The lone Indian weightlifter in Tokyo roared again to type with world championships gold in 2017 and Commonwealth Games gold in 2018. She heads into Tokyo Games after having set the world file in clear and jerk within the girls’s 49kg class.Click right here for IndiaAt present.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.