Tokyo Olympics / Mirabai Chanu used to buy wood as a child, a book changed her life

Mirabai Chanu has become the second weightlifter of India winning medal in the Olympics. He won silver medal in Tokyo Olympics 49 kg in 2020. Karam Malleshwari won the bronze medal at the Sydney Olympics of 2020 before Mirabai Chanu.Mirabai Chanu was born on August 8, 1994 in Nongpek Kakaching village of Manipur. In the beginning, Meerabai's dream was to become archer, but for some reason he had to choose his career to wetlifting.

Mirabai Chanu's life is full of struggle to come from Manipur. Meerabai's childhood mountain has passed the light of the burnt. He has been the master of lifting heavy weight since childhood.

Tells me that Mirabai wanted to become archer in the childhood. But their goal changed to the class eight. Actually, in the book of class eight, the famous Watalifter Kejrani Devi was mentioned.

Let's tell that Kengarani, who lives in Imphal, is the most decorated woman of Indian weightlifting history. Any Indian woman has not won more medal than Kurrany. Just in class eight, it was decided that we have to raise weight. Along with this, Merabai's career.

The hard work of Meerabai finally brought color, when he won silver medal for India in 48 kg Bharatar in Glasgo Commonwealth Games in 2014. Thanks to the good performance, he had qualified for the Rio Olympics. However, his performance was not according to the expectations in Rio. He was unsuccessful in carrying loads in all three attempts of Clean and Jerk.

By forgetting the failure of Rio Olympics, Meerabai Chanu performed a great show in the 2017 World Lifting Championship. In the Champinship, Meerabai had raised the weight of 194 (85 in Snatch 85 and 107) kg, which was the complex record. Once again in 2018, Meerabai Chanu in Commonwealth Games proved to be his superiority by winning the gold medal.

Meerabai is the only Indian Weightlifter to qualify for the 2021 Olympics. He won the bronze in 49 kg of Bharatar in the Asian Championship and got Tokyo's ticket. Meanwhile, 26-year-old Meerabai had raised a load of 119 kilograms while establishing a world record in clean and obstacles after lifting 86 kg in Snach.