Commonwealth Games 2022: Top five biggest achievements of India's star weightlifter Mirabai Chanu - In Pics

The highlight of Mirabai Chanu’s career came at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, where she won the silver medal in the women’s 49kg category to become only the second Indian weightlifter, after Karnam Malleswari at Sydney 2000, to win an Olympic medal.

 

Mirabai Chanu won a bronze medal at the Asian Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. With this, she started the Olympic season on high. 

 

Mirabai Chanu smashed the Commonwealth Games records and lifted a total of 26kg more than the second best to win the gold medal at Gold Coast 2018.

 

After the disappointment in Rio 206, Mirabai Chanu turned the tables upside down in the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships in Anaheim where she bit the gold. 

 

Mirabai Chanu became the talk of the town at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games where she claimed the silver medal in the  48kg category.