Mirabai Chanu  

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Mirabai Chanu is an Indian weightlifter. In the year 2018, Mirabai was awarded the prestigious ‘Padma Shri’ award. Mirabai Chanu is the second Indian woman to win a silver medal in weightlifting at the Olympics game.

India's best medal hope is Mirabai Chanu, who won the gold in the 48kg category at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships in Anaheim, United States

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'I am very happy that I'm receiving the Khel Ratna. I had an inkling that I will get it but with the Asian Games miss, I was not sure. My mother was very nervous for me, she kept on calling every hour to ask if I had heard something,' Mirabai Chanu said

Defending world champion Mirabai Chanu, who is in Mumbai undergoing treatment for her lower-back injury, will also join her fellow lifters in the rehabilitation camp

World Champion Saikhom Mirabai Chanu had complained of discomfort in her lower back in May. The injury has since puzzled doctors across the country, who are unable to diagnose the cause.