Mirabai Chanu is described in the public record as Indian weightlifter (born 1994). Born in Imphal East district, India, in 1994.
Mirabai Chanu Saikhom (born 9 August 1994) is an Indian weightlifter. She won the silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the women's 49 kg event. On 17 April 2021, she set a world record in clean & jerk in the 49 kg category with a lift of 119 kg (262 lb) in the 2020 Asian Weightlifting Championships, a record which she held till 5 September 2023. Mirabai Chanu won a gold medal in the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships. She has also won two silver medals at the World Weightlifting Championships. She has won three gold medals and a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games. In the 49 kg weight class, she set a new Commonwealth Games record in the snatch, clean & jerk, and overall categories in the 2018 Commonwealth Games, which she bettered in the 2022 and the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
Mirabai Chanu is recorded among the figures by whom fencing is remembered, and the surviving account of that career is the basis on which the reputation rests.
Fencing is decided by electrically scored touches at a speed the eye cannot reliably follow, and its three weapons have separate rules and traditions.
