Mirabai Chanu

Mirabai Chanu Saikhom is an Indian weightlifter from Manipur, born in 1994, who won the silver medal in the women's 49 kg event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In 2017 she won the gold medal at the World Weightlifting Championships in the 48 kg class, and she later added world championship silver medals in 2022 and 2025. She has won three gold medals and a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games, and in April 2021 she set a world record in the clean and jerk of 119 kg in the 49 kg category. The Government of India awarded her the Padma Shri and the Khel Ratna, its highest sporting honour, in 2018, and she became a brand ambassador for the football club NEROCA FC in 2022.