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title: "Who are the two silver medal winners from India in Tokyo Olympics?"  
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# Who are the two silver medal winners from India in Tokyo Olympics?

Who are the two [silver](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/4935/how-wearing-silver-jewelry-benefits-your-body) medal winners from India in Tokyo Olympics?

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## Answers

### Answer by Stuti Gupta

> **Mirabai Chanu and Ravi Kumar Dahiya both won silver medals for India.**

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**[Saikhom Mirabai Chanu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/62193/who-is-the-chief-economic-advisor-cea-of-the-government-of-india)** bestowed upon her the sports accolade of **Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna.** \
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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.** \
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**[Mr. Ravi Kumar Dahiya](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.** \
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Ravi was born on December 12, 1997, in the hamlet Nahri in the Sonipat district of **[Haryana](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/48282/who-is-nicknamed-as-haryana-hurricane)**. 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.


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