Mirabai Chanu and Ravi Kumar Dahiya both won silver medals for India.
Saikhom Mirabai Chanu is a weightlifter from India. She earned a silver medal in the Women's 49 kg event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Mirabai Chanu has won the
World Championships as well as many
Commonwealth Games medals. The Government of India honored her with the Padma Shri award for her services to sports. In 2018, the
Government of India
bestowed upon her the sports accolade of
Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna.
Chanu earned silver in the women's 48 kg weight class in the
2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow,
and then went on to shatter the games record her way to victory at the 2018 event in Gold Coast. Her most notable achievement before the 2020 Summer
Olympics came in 2017 when she earned the gold medal at the
World Weightlifting Championships in Anaheim, California.
Mr. Ravi Kumar Dahiya, also known as Ravi Kumar, is an Indian freestyle wrestler who earned a silver medal in the 57 kg event at the
2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Dahiya is also a two-time
Asian champion and a bronze medalist at the
2019
World Wrestling Championships.
Ravi was born on December 12, 1997, in the hamlet Nahri in the Sonipat district of
Haryana. Dahiya has been taught at the
Chhatrasal Stadium in North Delhi by Ramphal Mann Yashvir Singh and later
Virender Singh since the age of ten. For more than a decade, his father
Rakesh Dahiya, a modest farmer, would trek 39 kilometers from their village to the
Chhatrasal stadium to supply fresh milk and bananas, which were part of his wrestling diet.