Karnam Malleswari

Karnam Malleswari ( born June 1, 1975 in Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh ) is an Indian weightlifter. She was the first Indian woman to win a medal at the Olympics.

Career

The 1.58 m tall athlete began in 1990 with the weight lifting, after she had previously been operated as a gymnast and gymnast. It carried the weight lifting from the beginning very seriously, so that in addition to the daily training had little time for other hobbies. 1993 First successes came one when she up to 54 kg of body weight won two medals at the World Championships in Melbourne in the weight class. Until her marriage in 1997 she then raised very successful in several world championships and even won some medals. After her marriage in 1997 she interrupted her career for two years. In their re-entry into the competition scene in 1999 she had gained a few pounds of body weight and had to start in a higher weight classes. Nevertheless, she succeeded at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, the first Olympics where medals were awarded in the women's weightlifting, winning the bronze medal in the weight category to 69 kg body weight. After Sydney they put again a break and started again in 2003 at the World Championships. In the meantime, however, the world level was further increased in the weightlifters, so that they could not celebrate international successes more.

International success / Mehrkampf

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, BW = body weight)

Medals in individual events

( in the Olympics, no further individual medals will be awarded )

  • World Championship gold medals in 1994, pushing, 110 kg - 1995, Snatch, 90 kg - 1995, pushing, 112.5 kg
  • World Championship silver medals: 1994, rupturing, 87.5 kg
  • World Cup bronze: 1993, rupturing, 82.5 kg - 1996, Snatch, 85 kg - 1996, pushing, 102.5 kg

Awards

  • Weightlifting (India)
  • World Champion (weight lifting)
  • Olympian (India)
  • Carrier of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
  • Carrier of the Arjuna Award
  • Support of Padma Shri
  • Indian
  • Born in 1975
  • Woman
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