Commonwealth Games 2018 | Mirabai Chanu: From lifting firewood to CWG gold

CWG gold medallist Mirabai Chanu had showed her weightlifting prowess even as a 12 year old when she would comfortably lift more firewoods than her elder broth. At 23, Mirabai has the world at her feet as she earned India's first gold medal at Gold Coast after smashing the Games records in 48kg category snatch, clean and jerk. Born to a poor family in Nongpok Kakching village about 20 kilometres from Imphal, the youngest among six siblings, Mirabai would go to collect firewoods from a nearby hill with her brother Saikhom Sanatomba Meitei, who is four years elder to her.

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