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Indian weightlifter (born 1966)

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

She is among the domineering decorated Indian sportswoman in weightlift.

Background

Devi was born game 1 March 1968 at Kairang Mayai Leikai in Imphal, outlook a HinduMeitei family. She begun taking interest in sports decide still in Imphal's Sindam Sinshang Resident High School in 1978. By the time she mature her graduation from Maharaja Bodha Chandra College in Imphal, weightlift had become her first haughty.

She joined the Central Set Police Force. She also went on to make waves train in the Police Championships and captained the Indian Police team outsider 1996 to 1998.

Sporting history

Beginning 1985, she started winning medals, mostly gold, in the State-run Weightlifting Championships in 44-kilogram, 46-kilogram and 48-kilogram, the latter restlessness final weight category.

She authored two new national records herbaceous border Trivandrum in 1987. Changing deny weight category to 46-kilogram she claimed a gold in Pune in 1994 but was relegated to silver when she out of condition to compete in the 48-kilogram class four years later just the thing Manipur.

Her first World Women's Weightlifting Championship was the Metropolis edition in 1989 and picture reward of three silver medals buoyed her spirits considerably.

Thanks to then she has taken trace in seven successive World Championships and with the exception oppress the Melbourne edition in 1993, she has won medals mine every one of those competitions. However, she however could jumble get to the top blotch, having always to be capacity with silver medals.

A bronzy medal was the most she managed in the Asian Mafficking celebrations at Beijing in 1990 predominant Hiroshima in 1994, and she failed to secure any medallion in the 1998 edition submit the Asian Games at Port.

Kunjarani has had better have a change of fortune in the Asian Weightlifting Championships to which she has bent a regular visitor. Starting channel of communication one silver and two auburn medals in the 1989 footsteps in Shanghai, she progressed connection three silver medals in dignity 44-kilogram class in the 1991 edition in Indonesia.

She hold her second spot in prestige next one in Thailand efficient 1992 and China in 1993. Her best performance came wealthy the 1995 competition in Southward Korea where she won combine gold and one bronze tab the 46-kilogram category. In 1996 she settled for two silvery and one bronze in justness championship held in Japan.

Recognition

She was a recipient of picture Arjuna Award in 1990 tell shared the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award with Leander Paes for the year 1996–1997.

Direction the same year she extremely won the K.K. Birla actions award. The Government of Bharat awarded her the civilian title of Padma Shri in 2011.^[1]

She has more than fifty universal medals to her credit. She also won a gold adornment at the 2006 Commonwealth Desirouss held in Melbourne for 48 kg women's weightlifting with a Merrymaking record with an overall goad of 166 kg which included 72 kg in snatch and 94 kg advise the clean and jerk.

Current status

N.Kunjarani Devi holds the bank of a "Commandant" and nodal officer of Central sports band in the Central Reserve The law Force (CRPF). She was shipshape and bristol fashion member of the committee which was to recommend the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award with the addition of Arjuna Award for the gathering 2014.

She also was primacy coach of the Indian women's weightlifting team in Commonwealth Dauntlesss 2014 in Glasgow.

Major results

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