PM Modi Congratulates Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu on Winning Gold Medal at CWG 2022
GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 31st July. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday congratulated weightlifter Mirabai Chanu on winning Gold Medal at Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham.
In a tweet, PM Modi said, “The exceptional @mirabai_chanu makes India proud once again! Every Indian is delighted that she’s won a Gold and set a new Commonwealth record at the Birmingham Games. Her success inspires several Indians, especially budding athletes.”
The exceptional @mirabai_chanu makes India proud once again! Every Indian is delighted that she’s won a Gold and set a new Commonwealth record at the Birmingham Games. Her success inspires several Indians, especially budding athletes. pic.twitter.com/e1vtmKnD65
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) July 30, 2022
Mirabai Chanu, a silver medalist at the Tokyo Olympics, won India’s first gold medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in the women’s 49 kg weightlifting event here on Saturday.
It was Chanu’s third consecutive Commonwealth Games medal. She took silver in Glasgow in 2014 and gold in Gold Coast in 2018. After Sanket Sargar’s silver and Gururaja Poojary’s bronze in the men’s 55kg and 61kg categories, this was India’s third medal in Birmingham.
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