CWG 2018: Meet Mirabai Chanu, winner of India's first gold at Gold Coast

The world champion Saikhom Mirabai Chanu lifted 86kg to keep rewriting the Games records and to raise her own National record by 1 kg

Saikhom Mirabai Chanu from Manipur won India its first gold medal at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games 2018 in the women's 48 kg category. The world champion lifted 86 kg to keep rewriting the Games records and bettered her own National record by 1 kilogram. In a remarkable performance, Chanu smashed the Commonwealth Games record in snatch, pulling off clean lifts in all her three attempts (80 kg, 84 kg and 86 kg). 

She then lifted more than double her body weight (103 kg, 107 kg and 110 kg) in three successful attempts to claim the clean and jerk as