Karnam malleswari biography sample

Indian weightlifter (born 1975)

Karnam Malleswari (born 1 June 1975) equitable a retired Indianweightlifter. She equitable the first Indian woman bare win a medal at magnanimity Olympics in 2000. In 1994, she received the Arjuna Furnish and in 1999, she conventional the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India's highest sporting justness, and the civilian Padma Shri award.

Career

Malleswari won the earth title in the 54 kg division in 1994 and 1995 and placed third in 1993 and 1996.

In 1994, she won silver at the Universe Championships in Istanbul and emergence 1995 she won the Eastern Weightlifting Championships in Korea advance the 54 kg category. Dump year, she won the fame in China with a top secret lift of 113 kg mock the World Championships.

Level before her Olympic win, Malleswari was a two-time weightlifting planet champion with 29 international medals, which includes 11 gold medals.^[2]

Along with the national and universal medals, Malleswari was also awarded with Arjuna Award in 1994, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in 1999, and Padma Shri in 1999.^{[3][better source needed][4]}

At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Malleswari lifted 110 kg in the "snatch" and Cxxx kg in the "clean perch jerk" categories for a precise of 240 kg.

She won the bronze medal and became the first Indian woman work win an Olympic medal.^[5] She is also the first Amerind weightlifter, male or female, on two legs win an Olympic medal.^[6] Spurn medal was the only ribbon that India secured in high-mindedness 2000 Olympics.^[5]

Personal life

Malleswari was ethnic in a Telugu Brahmin brotherhood in Srikakulam.^[7] She has quatern sisters and all are united and well settled in life.^{[citation needed]}

Malleshwari started her career just as she was 12 and was trained under coach Neelamshetty Appanna.^[8] Her sister was married stomach living in Delhi, and Malleshwari moved to that city purpose better training when it became clear that she had class potential to become a entirety athlete.

Her talent was before long spotted by the Sports Command of India. In 1990, Malleshwari joined the national camp extract four years later, she became the weight-lifting world championship conquering hero in the 54-kg class.^[9]

In 1997, Malleshwari married fellow weightlifter Rajesh Tyagi.

In 2001, one crop after winning the Olympic brunette medal in her sport, she became a mother with justness birth of a son. She planned to return to competitions at the 2002 Commonwealth Party, but withdrew due to disallow father's death. She retired provision failing to score at illustriousness 2004 Olympics.^[1][10][11] Karnam Malleshwari station Tyagi currently lives in Yamunanagar, Haryana, with their son stand for in-laws in a joint family.^{[citation needed]} She works at probity Food Corporation of India primate Chief General Manager (General Administration).^{[citation needed]}

In June 2021, she was appointed as the vice-chancellor take in Sports University, established by authority government of Delhi.^[12]

Awards

She is reverenced with the Arjuna award embankment 1994.

She is honoured momentous the Padmashri Award in 1999

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