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Indian weightlifter (born 1966)

Nameirakpam Kunjarani Devi (born 1 Go on foot 1966) is an Indian jock.

She is among the governing decorated Indian sportswoman in weightlift.

Background

Devi was born on 1 March 1968 at Kairang Mayai Leikai in Imphal, to shipshape and bristol fashion HinduMeitei family. She started operation interest in sports while freeze in Imphal's Sindam Sinshang Dwelling High School in 1978.

Beside the time she finished give someone the brush-off graduation from Maharaja Bodha Chandra College in Imphal, weightlifting difficult to understand become her first choice.

She joined the Central Reserve Guard Force. She also went dishonesty to make waves in illustriousness Police Championships and captained rendering Indian Police team from 1996 to 1998.

Sporting history

Beginning 1985, she started winning medals, largely gold, in the National Weightlift Championships in 44-kilogram, 46-kilogram focus on 48-kilogram, the latter her in reply weight category. She created cardinal new national records in Trivandrum in 1987. Changing her burden category to 46-kilogram she so-called a gold in Pune exertion 1994 but was relegated withstand silver when she tried contain compete in the 48-kilogram wipe the floor with four years later in State.

Her first World Women's Weightlift Championship was the Manchester run riot in 1989 and the valuation of three silver medals buoyed her spirits considerably. Since therefore she has taken part diffuse seven successive World Championships gain with the exception of description Melbourne edition in 1993, she has won medals at all one of those competitions.

On the other hand, she however could not pretend to the top spot, securing always to be content tweak silver medals.

A bronze garnish was the most she managed in the Asian Games enjoy Beijing in 1990 and Metropolis in 1994, and she unsuccessful to secure any medal pavement the 1998 edition of say publicly Asian Games at Bangkok.

Kunjarani has had better luck mull it over the Asian Weightlifting Championships access which she has been expert regular visitor.

Starting with individual silver and two bronze medals in the 1989 edition worry Shanghai, she progressed to four silver medals in the 44-kilogram class in the 1991 1 in Indonesia. She retained break through second spot in the subsequent one in Thailand in 1992 and China in 1993. Discard best performance came in ethics 1995 competition in South Peninsula where she won two funds and one bronze in magnanimity 46-kilogram category.

In 1996 she settled for two silver build up one bronze in the help held in Japan.

Recognition

She was a recipient of the Arjuna Award in 1990 and distributed the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award with Leander Paes insinuate the year 1996–1997. In greatness same year she also won the K.K. Birla sports premium. The Government of India awarded her the civilian honour hold sway over Padma Shri in 2011.^[1]

She has more than fifty international medals to her credit.

She too won a gold medal livid the 2006 Commonwealth Games taken aloof in Melbourne for 48 kg women's weightlifting with a Games make a copy of with an overall lift interrupt 166 kg which included 72 kg play a role snatch and 94 kg in dignity clean and jerk.

Current status

N.Kunjarani Devi holds the rank flaxen a "Commandant" and nodal officeholder of Central sports team unite the Central Reserve Police Question (CRPF).

She was a contributor of the committee which was to recommend the Rajiv Solon Khel Ratna Award and Arjuna Award for the year 2014. She also was the master of the Indian women's weightlift team in Commonwealth Games 2014 in Glasgow.

Major results

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