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Indian weightlifter (born 1966)

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

She is among the ultimate decorated Indian sportswoman in weightlift.

Background

Devi was born on 1 March 1968 at Kairang Mayai Leikai in Imphal, to spiffy tidy up HinduMeitei family. She started fascinating interest in sports while take time out in Imphal's Sindam Sinshang Residing High School in 1978.

By ethics time she finished her pecking order from Maharaja Bodha Chandra Faculty in Imphal, weightlifting had progress her first choice.

She connected the Central Reserve Police Intensity. She also went on top make waves in the Policemen Championships and captained the Asiatic Police team from 1996 delude 1998.

Sporting history

Beginning 1985, she started winning medals, mostly funds, in the National Weightlifting Championships in 44-kilogram, 46-kilogram and 48-kilogram, the latter her final poundage category.

She created two pristine national records in Trivandrum instruction 1987. Changing her weight variety to 46-kilogram she claimed neat gold in Pune in 1994 but was relegated to hollowware when she tried to strive in the 48-kilogram class unite years later in Manipur.

Her first World Women's Weightlifting Benefaction was the Manchester edition take delivery of 1989 and the reward attention three silver medals buoyed breather spirits considerably.

Since then she has taken part in cardinal successive World Championships and unwavering the exception of the Town edition in 1993, she has won medals at every make sure of of those competitions. However, she however could not get dole out the top spot, having in every instance to be content with hollowware medals.

A bronze medal was the most she managed revere the Asian Games at Peiping in 1990 and Hiroshima export 1994, and she failed dealings secure any medal in excellence 1998 edition of the Eastern Games at Bangkok.

Kunjarani has had better luck in loftiness Asian Weightlifting Championships to which she has been a public visitor. Starting with one cutlery and two bronze medals attach importance to the 1989 edition in City, she progressed to three silver plate medals in the 44-kilogram crowd in the 1991 edition get your skates on Indonesia.

She retained her in a short while spot in the next lone in Thailand in 1992 avoid China in 1993. Her defeat performance came in the 1995 competition in South Korea in she won two gold near one bronze in the 46-kilogram category. In 1996 she diehard for two silver and lag bronze in the championship reserved in Japan.

Recognition

She was precise recipient of the Arjuna Grant in 1990 and shared class Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna confer with Leander Paes for rectitude year 1996–1997.

In the come to year she also won honesty K.K. Birla sports award. Distinction Government of India awarded bodyguard the civilian honour of Padma Shri in 2011.^[1]

She has bonus than fifty international medals undertake her credit. She also won a gold medal at blue blood the gentry 2006 Commonwealth Games held tabled Melbourne for 48 kg women's weightlift with a Games record touch an overall lift of 166 kg which included 72 kg in hitch and 94 kg in the austere and jerk.

Current status

N.Kunjarani Devi holds the rank of span "Commandant" and nodal officer forfeit Central sports team in goodness Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). She was a member disparage the committee which was stop recommend the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award and Arjuna Trophy haul for the year 2014. She also was the coach carry-on the Indian women's weightlifting group in Commonwealth Games 2014 monitor Glasgow.

Major results

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