Mirabai Chanu Wins Silver: Indian star weightlifter Mirabai Chanu has created history by winning the silver medal in the Asian Games 2026. Chanu has performed brilliantly so far in the semi-finals of 49 kg category. Chanu lifted 83, 85 and 87 kg in three attempts in the women’s 49 kg snatch respectively. With this, India has won a medal in weightlifting in the Asian Games for about 28 years.
Mirabai Chanu won silver
Mirabai Chanu has won the silver medal in the women’s 49 kg weightlifting event in the Asian Games 2026. This is Chanu’s first medal in the Asian Games. Whereas, Ri Song-gum of Democratic Republic of Korea won the gold medal. After Karnam Malleshwari, Mirabai Chanu has become the second Indian weightlifter to win medals in all international weightlifting events.
Ended 28 years of drought
Mirabai Chanu has ended the medal drought in weightlifting after 28 years by winning the silver medal in the Asian Games. After Karnam Malleswari, she has become the second weightlifter to win a medal in the weightlifting event of the Asian Games. Let us tell you that before Chanu, Malleswari had won a medal for India in the Asian Games. Karnam Malleswari has won silver medal twice in Asian Games.
In 1994, he won a medal in the 54 kg category in the Hiroshima Asian Games. After this, in 1998, he won the silver medal in the 63 kg category in the Asian Games held in Bangkok. Now after 28 years, Mirabai Chanu has won a medal for India in the Asian Games.
Mirabai Chanu’s journey in Asian Games
Mirabai Chanu’s journey in the Asian Games started in 2014. Where he participated in 48 kg category. She was in ninth place. Due to injury, she could not participate in the 2018 Asian Games, but made a comeback in 2022, where playing in the women’s 49 kg category, she finished fourth by lifting 191 kg. Now in the Asian Games 2026, Mirabai Chanu has won the silver medal by lifting a total weight of 198 kg.