Kunjarani Devi

Nameirakpam Kunjarani Devi ( born March 1, 1968 in Imphal, Manipur ) is an Indian weightlifter.

Career

Kunjarani comes from the East Indian Manipur, where she grew up and at school played the Indian National Sport Hockey Country. As she was very small and delicate, they began in 1985 with weightlifting as a recreational sport. Since they found it great favor, she made the weight lifting to their main sport and had in 1989 reached a stage performance that enabled participation in international championships. Since 1989, she therefore starts with great success at the World Championships and Asian Championships. At the World Championships she won 18 medals so far. A World Cup victory they still did not make it. In the late 1990s and in 2000, the Indian women's team was coached by the former Soviet world-class weightlifter Leonid Taranenko. From this time Indian athletes caught doping are transferred again and again. So also Kunjarani in 2001, which got a six -month ban.

N. Kunjarani Devi 's Deputy. Commander of a unit of the Central Reserve Police Force ( CRPF ).

Awards

It was in 1990 with the Arjuna Award and Rajiv Gandhi Khel in 1996 with the Ratna and the KK Birla Sports Award honored.

International success / duel

(WM = World Championship, BW = body weight)

Medals in individual events

• World Championship silver medals: 1989, rupturing, 57.5 kg - 1989, pushing, 75 kg - 1991, tearing, 62.5 kg - 1991, pushing, 80 kg - 1992, Snatch, 65 kg - 1992, pushing, 77.5 kg - 1994, tearing, 72.5 kg - 1994, pushing, 95 kg - 1995, Snatch, 75 kg - 1995, pushing, 100 kg - 1996, pushing, 90 kg - 1997, pushing, 97.5 kg - 1999 Put, 105 kg -
• World Cup Bronze Medal: 1996, rupturing, 67.5 kg -