History of karnam malleswari

Indian weightlifter (born )

Karnam Malleswari (born 1 June ) is a retired Indianweightlifter. She is the first Indian woman to win a medal at the Olympics in In , she received the Arjuna Award and in , she received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India's highest sporting honour, and the civilian Padma Shri award.

Career

Malleswari won the world title in the 54 kg division in and and placed third in and

In , she won silver at the World Championships in Istanbul and in she won the Asian Weightlifting Championships in Korea in the 54 kg category.

That year, she won the title in China with a record lift of kg at the World Championships. Even before her Olympic win, Malleswari was a two-time weightlifting world champion with 29 international medals, which includes 11 gold medals.^[2]

Along with the national and international medals, Malleswari was also awarded with Arjuna Award in , the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in , and Padma Shri in ^[3]