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Medals at Tokyo Olympics - India

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          India capped off its best ever performance in a Olympics with a haul of seven medals. In this Olympic we got one gold medal, two silver medals and four bronze medals. Medal 1: Silver for Mirabai Chanu in the 40kgs weightlifting category on 24th July, 2021. Medal 2: Bronze for shuttler P V Sindhu in the Badminton women's singles on 1st August, 2021. Medal 3: Bronze for boxer Lovlina Borgohain in the 69kg welterweight category on 4th August, 2021. Medal 4: Bronze for the men's hockey team after they beat Germany 5-4 to win first hockey medal in 41 years on 5th August, 2021. Medal 5: Silver for wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya in the 57kg freestyle on 5th August 2021. Medal 6: Bronze for Bajrang Punia in men's freestlye wrestling 45kg on 07 August, 2021. Medal 7: Gold for javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra after a scintillating 87.58 meter throw on 7th August, 2021.                     ...

Mirabai Chanu At Tokyo 2020 Olympics

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1. Mirabai Chanu-Silver|| Mira Bai Chanu of India has won the first medal for the country on 24 July, 2021 in Tokyo Olympics in Japan. 26-year-old Mira Bai has won silver medal in 49 kg category. She is the first Indian to win a silver medal in weightlifting. Chanu Mirabai was born on 8th August 1994 near Imphal in Manipur. Chanu Mirabai's career || In 2014, the Glasgow Commonwealth games where she won the silver medal in the 48 kg category. In 2017 she won the Gold Medal in the women's category weightlifting in World Weightlifting Championships at Anaheim, CA, USA. She created a record by lifting the 194 kg weight in total and 109 kg clean and jerk. In 2018, she won the first gold medal for India in Commonwealth Games. In the 2019 World Weightlifting Championships, Mirabai lifted a total of 201kgs but finished 4th. In 2021, she won the bronze medal at the 2020 Asian Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent At 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo Chanu won a silve...