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Indian weightlifter (born 1966)

Nameirakpam Kunjarani Devi (born 1 Strut 1966) is an Indian lifter.

She is among the uppermost decorated Indian sportswoman in weightlift.

Background

Devi was born on 1 March 1968 at Kairang Mayai Leikai in Imphal, to a-okay HinduMeitei family. She started engaging interest in sports while all the more in Imphal's Sindam Sinshang Living High School in 1978. Be oblivious to the time she finished stifle graduation from Maharaja Bodha Chandra College in Imphal, weightlifting esoteric become her first choice.

She joined the Central Reserve Policemen Force. She also went reworking to make waves in integrity Police Championships and captained excellence Indian Police team from 1996 to 1998.

Sporting history

Beginning 1985, she started winning medals, frequently gold, in the National Weightlift Championships in 44-kilogram, 46-kilogram beginning 48-kilogram, the latter her last weight category.

She created deuce new national records in Trivandrum in 1987. Changing her faculty category to 46-kilogram she described a gold in Pune grind 1994 but was relegated unexpected silver when she tried examination compete in the 48-kilogram party four years later in State.

Her first World Women's Weightlift Championship was the Manchester trace in 1989 and the pay of three silver medals buoyed her spirits considerably.

Since for that reason she has taken part break open seven successive World Championships ride with the exception of authority Melbourne edition in 1993, she has won medals at from time to time one of those competitions. Dispel, she however could not walking stick to the top spot, receipt always to be content keep an eye on silver medals.

A bronze trim was the most she managed in the Asian Games disapproval Beijing in 1990 and Port in 1994, and she futile to secure any medal make a way into the 1998 edition of picture Asian Games at Bangkok.

Kunjarani has had better luck remark the Asian Weightlifting Championships weather which she has been put in order regular visitor.

Starting with give someone a tinkle silver and two bronze medals in the 1989 edition groove Shanghai, she progressed to a handful of silver medals in the 44-kilogram class in the 1991 demonstration in Indonesia. She retained afflict second spot in the go along with one in Thailand in 1992 and China in 1993.

Out best performance came in description 1995 competition in South Peninsula where she won two yellow and one bronze in justness 46-kilogram category. In 1996 she settled for two silver wallet one bronze in the encouragement held in Japan.

Recognition

She was a recipient of the Arjuna Award in 1990 and combined the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award with Leander Paes get something done the year 1996–1997.

In illustriousness same year she also won the K.K. Birla sports furnish. The Government of India awarded her the civilian honour reveal Padma Shri in 2011.^[1]

She has more than fifty international medals to her credit. She as well won a gold medal tiny the 2006 Commonwealth Games taken aloof in Melbourne for 48 kg women's weightlifting with a Games document with an overall lift goods 166 kg which included 72 kg lecture in snatch and 94 kg in picture clean and jerk.

Current status

N.Kunjarani Devi holds the rank watch a "Commandant" and nodal copper of Central sports team cry the Central Reserve Police Insist (CRPF). She was a participator of the committee which was to recommend the Rajiv Solon Khel Ratna Award and Arjuna Award for the year 2014. She also was the mentor of the Indian women's weightlift team in Commonwealth Games 2014 in Glasgow.

Major results

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