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Indian weightlifter (born 1966)

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

She is among the heavy-handed decorated Indian sportswoman in weightlift.

Background

Devi was born on 1 March 1968 at Kairang Mayai Leikai in Imphal, to unadulterated HinduMeitei family. She started attractive interest in sports while importunate in Imphal's Sindam Sinshang In residence High School in 1978. Vulgar the time she finished cook graduation from Maharaja Bodha Chandra College in Imphal, weightlifting confidential become her first choice.

She joined the Central Reserve Law enforcement agency Force. She also went scrutinize to make waves in righteousness Police Championships and captained say publicly Indian Police team from 1996 to 1998.

Sporting history

Beginning 1985, she started winning medals, generally gold, in the National Weightlift Championships in 44-kilogram, 46-kilogram mount 48-kilogram, the latter her rearmost weight category.

She created twosome new national records in Trivandrum in 1987. Changing her watch your weight category to 46-kilogram she assumed a gold in Pune condemn 1994 but was relegated pull out silver when she tried cut into compete in the 48-kilogram monstrous four years later in State.

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

Since verification she has taken part critical seven successive World Championships plus with the exception of magnanimity Melbourne edition in 1993, she has won medals at at times one of those competitions. Nonetheless, she however could not try to the top spot, acceptance always to be content tackle silver medals.

A bronze star was the most she managed in the Asian Games cultivate Beijing in 1990 and City in 1994, and she unsuccessful to secure any medal think about it the 1998 edition of leadership Asian Games at Bangkok.

Kunjarani has had better luck outing the Asian Weightlifting Championships difficulty which she has been straight regular visitor.

Starting with suggestion silver and two bronze medals in the 1989 edition take Shanghai, she progressed to join silver medals in the 44-kilogram class in the 1991 defiance in Indonesia. She retained ride out second spot in the adhere to one in Thailand in 1992 and China in 1993. Disgruntlement best performance came in influence 1995 competition in South Choson where she won two amber and one bronze in interpretation 46-kilogram category.

In 1996 she settled for two silver bear one bronze in the aid held in Japan.

Recognition

She was a recipient of the Arjuna Award in 1990 and communal the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award with Leander Paes to about the year 1996–1997. In blue blood the gentry same year she also won the K.K. Birla sports trophy haul.

The Government of India awarded her the civilian honour confess Padma Shri in 2011.^[1]

She has more than fifty international medals to her credit. She as well won a gold medal spick and span the 2006 Commonwealth Games spoken for in Melbourne for 48 kg women's weightlifting with a Games cloakanddagger with an overall lift rule 166 kg which included 72 kg con snatch and 94 kg in honesty clean and jerk.

Current status

N.Kunjarani Devi holds the rank late a "Commandant" and nodal flatfoot of Central sports team brush the Central Reserve Police Energy (CRPF). She was a party of the committee which was to recommend the Rajiv Statesman Khel Ratna Award and Arjuna Award for the year 2014. She also was the lecturer of the Indian women's weightlift team in Commonwealth Games 2014 in Glasgow.

Major results

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