Last Updated: March 06, 2023, 12:54 IST
Tokyo Olympic Games silver-medallist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu has bagged the 2022 ’BBC Indian Sportswoman Of The Year’ award after a public vote.
The 28-year-old weightlifter from Manipur turned the primary athlete to win the award twice in a row after bagging it in 2021 as nicely.
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At the Tokyo Games, she had change into the primary Indian to win a silver within the sport. Last yr, she went on to safe gold on the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. She additionally gained a silver medal on the World Weightlifting Championships in 2022.
”I’m actually excited and wish to say that I will probably be working even more durable for the forthcoming video games and win extra medals for India,” stated Chanu.
The different short-listed contenders for the award have been wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Sakshi Malik, boxer Nikhat Zareen and badminton participant PV Sindhu.
Table tennis participant Bhavina Patel gained the ’BBC Para Sportswoman of the Year’ award, a class launched this yr.
She gained a silver on the 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo, turning into the primary Indian paddler to attain the feat. Bhavina additionally gained gold on the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
”It is certainly a gratifying feeling to win this prestigious award which is a part of an exquisite initiative empowering ladies and sportspersons. It can be commendable to see BBC specializing in para-sports and making India extra inclusive,” stated Bhavina.
Former captain of the Indian ladies’s hockey crew Pritam Siwach was conferred with the ’BBC Lifetime Achievement Award’ for her contribution to Indian sports activities and for uplifting generations of gamers.
Siwach was the primary lady hockey coach to be given the Dronacharya Award, the best nationwide award for coaches.
”This award has been conferred upon eminent sportswomen previously three years. I used to be very comfortable to know that this yr, I will probably be getting the award. The speciality of this award is that it’s given to ladies. It motivates us once we get such awards,” stated Siwach.
Boxer Nitu Ghanghas was chosen because the ’BBC Emerging Player of the Year’. She is a two-time youth world champion and Commonwealth Games medallist. She gained gold on the 2022 Commonwealth Games within the minimal weight class.
The ladies’s garden bowls crew of Lovely Choubey, Rupa Rani Tirkey, Pinki and Nayanmoni Saikia, which gained gold on the 2022 Commonwealth Games — India’s first-ever medal within the sport — was given the ’BBC Changemaker of the Year Award’.
BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year Award was launched in 2019 to have fun sportswomen in India who’ve made their mark on the world stage.
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