#C. mirabai olympic games tokyo 2020 series#

She has also won a silver medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and 2018 Asian Games, respectively, and two bronze medals at the Uber Cup.

#C. mirabai olympic games tokyo 2020 series#

The Badminton Champion bagged the super series title for the first time at the 2016 China Open. After Zhang Ning (former badminton player from the People’s Republic of China), she is the only woman to win the highest medals at the world championships. Sindhu was only 17 when she made it to the top 20 of the BWF World Ranking in 2012. The ace shuttler started her career in 2011 and rose to fame with a world ranking of no. In 2016, she won her first silver medal at Summer Olympics (Rio), being the only Indian athlete to win two medals at the Olympics that too consecutively.

Sindhu won a bronze medal in Women’s singles badminton by beating China’s He Bing Jiao 21-13, 21-15.

Sindhu continued with her dismal performance at the 2020 Summer Olympics and went on to become the first Indian to become the Badminton World Champion. Owing to her contribution to sports Mirabai Chanu has been awarded Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna in 2018. She is also the winner of many world Weightlifting championships in which she broke the record by lifting the highest weight-201 kgs. In the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships, the young wrestler lifted the competition record 194 kg in total (85 kg snatch and 109 kg clean & jerk and won the gold medal in the Women’s 48 kg category.Ĭhanu has also won multiple medals at the Commonwealth Games, including her first gold medal for India in the 2018 Commonwealth Games. The Padma Shri recipient gave her first breakthrough performance in 2014 at the Glasgow edition of the Commonwealth Games, in which she won a silver medal in the 48 kg weight category. Mirabai Chanu brought the second weightlifting Olympic medal to India after Karnam Malleswari in 2000. This wasn’t Chanu’s first performance in Olympics she qualified in the 2016 Rio Olympics in the women’s 48 kg category but failed to finish the event. Saikhom Mirabai Chanu- Silver Medalįondly known as Mirabai Chanu, the 27- year-old athlete from Manipur won her first silver medal in the Women’s welterweight boxing category in the 2020 Summer Olympics. Meet seven wonders of India, who have made the country proud with their historic performance at Tokyo Olympics 2020: 1. List of Indian Medal Winners in Tokyo Olympics 2020 Athlete

List of Indian Medal Winners in Tokyo Olympics 2020.