saikhom mirabai chanu won first gold medal in commonwealth games 2018.
saikhom mirabai chanu won first gold medal in commonwealth games 2018.
who won first gold medal in commonwealth games 2018?
saikhom mirabai chanu
chanu lifted a total of 196 kg, 86 kg in snatch and 110 kg in clean and jerk to win the first gold medal for india in the commonwealth games 2018. en route to the medal, she broke the games record for the weight category; the effort also marked her personal best performance. she won bronze in clean and jerk at 49 kg category in 2019 asian weightlifting championships. the total weight of 199 kg was her best ever and she just missed out on a bronze medal as her snatch weight was lower than the third place athlete, both of whom had an identical total.
saikhom mirabai chanu
phogat was awarded the dronacharya award by the government of india in 2016. he is the father and coach of geeta phogat, who won india's first gold medal in women's wrestling in the 55 kg freestyle category at the 2010 commonwealth games, and the first indian woman wrestler to have qualified for the olympics, and babita kumari, who won a bronze medal at the 2012 world wrestling championships, and won the gold medal in 2014 commonwealth games. phogat's niece, vinesh phogat, is also a commonwealth games gold medalist and won gold medal at asian games 2018.









































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