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Karnam Malleswari

Karnam Malleswari was born on born June 1, 1975 at Srikakulam located in Andhra Pradesh. She is an Indian weightlifter. As an initiative she participated in the 'National Junior weight lifting championship', and came First. In the year 1992 she participated in the Asian championship which was held in Thailand, and she won three silver medals. She in addition won three bronze medals in the world championship.

Karnam Malleswari came from a traditional environment; sports were not a main concern. Unexpectedly little Malleswari was very fanatical towards sports. On the other hand, her mother encouraged her to go for sports over and over again.


As a young person she used to pass through pretty faraway for exercise at a gym. At the age of 13 she represented her state for the first time in 1989-90, when a large amount of youthful girls were only just exchanging Enid Blytons for Mills and Boons.

Turning Point Personal Life Professional Career Achievements Ups and Downs Karnam Malleswari had her supreme instant in the Olympic attention when she became the first lady to be successful to get an Olympic medal in this game. She managed this success in the 2000 Olympic Games in weightlifting for the women's 69 kilograms allotment. It remained a long-lasting reminiscence for her in her proficient line of business as well. Her first triumph was at the Sydney Olympic Games where she won the medal in the weightlifting group, it was a enormous second for her as well as for each and every one of the women in India. At the same time as she merely won the bronze medal, this proved to be a huge moment for her. Maybe better than her accomplishment of winning her gold medal in the World Championships that took place in China. It was the first instance that Indian women represented and won medals in world level competitions, which was a big acknowledgment to her. Thus this grand success of Karnam Malleswari remained a optimistic moment for the whole country in view of the fact that she was the first medal champion in Olympics and also the first Indian women to win the conquest. She was the world champion in 1993 and 1994 in a weightlifting group of 63 kg. She won the success with vast contentment and this made her a nationwide hero. Thus she earned the designation of "iron girl of Andhra Pradesh" and became the golden young woman of India. Karnam Malleswari was born in a petite township of India in 1979 and began weightlifting at the age of twelve in her village. With the support of her family unit, that is to say from her mother Shyamala who attentively took concern of her diet which is extremely very important for a weightlifter. One more attention-grabbing fact is that her sister, Krishna Kumari is as well a nationwide lifter and thus Malleswari was called the sport offspring of India. Malleswari got married in 1997 and moved to Yamuna Nagar located in Haryana. Consequently, she was tiring with family life and took a small break from bloodthirsty weight lifting. She returned to take part in the Bangkok Asian Games in 1998, and won the silver medal to provide evidence that her married life on no account deterred her profession. Karnam Malleswari had her utmost instant when she was privileged by the prime minister of India for bringing wisdom of delight to her country of India. Her professional career was obvious with the declaration made by the country's prime minister who said that her attainment is a distinctive achievement and her victory is recognition to Indian women. To put in to her triumph in her performance in Sydney Olympics, cash prizes and mail praising her came from each and every one over the world. These cash prize money lined the way for future professionals, a enthusiasm in view of the fact that they realized that if talents are achieved, the administration would honor the professionals. The declaration made by Malleswari once winning the medal was that she was snowed under with pleasure and there would not be one more such vast moment in the vein of being the first Indian women to win an Olympic medal. This report clearly depicts that she acknowledged this success as the supreme and most optimistic moment in her professional career. She was trained by a Belarussian coach called Taranenkohe . As a result with her triumph she brought reputation not only to her country but also to her coach. It must also be mentioned that the Sydney Olympic Games gave women's weight lifting professionals an immense support by recognizing their talents and by giving them a rivalry at the international height. Having drawn closer from a sporting family environment, she achieved a lot of awards. To forename a few: she won gold in a world championship at Istanbul in 1994; in 1995 she got the Asian championship in Korea. Her specialized career also incorporated a moment where she set a extraordinary world evidence by captivating three gold medals in China in 1995. She also had numerous awards in her career. One of them was the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna reward in 1994-1995. But in spite of all the rewards, the foremost manifestation of her in weightlifting sports united with winning a bronze medal in 2000 on the duration of the Sydney Olympic Games was accepted by her as the most and most positive moment she had achieved in her career, the Olympics being the place where the maximum athletes from every part of the earth get together made it a grand incident in her world. Few of her most important achievements at the intercontinental Level: Silver medal in the 63 kg class clean-and-jerk (Asian Games,1998) Silver medal in the 54 kg class, clean-and-jerk(Asian Games1997) Gold medal (Asian Championships, Japan1996) Gold medal (World Championsips, China,1995) Three gold medals in 54 kg ,clean-and-jerk( Asian Championships, S. Korea 1995) Two gold medals and one silver (World Championships, Istanbul,1994) Three gold medals (Asian Championships, Korea,1994) She created 3 records in the 63 kg class( Commonwealth women's records, 1999) She won the National Championship in 52 kg body weight from 90-91 She won the National Championship in 54 kg body weight from 92-98 Arjuna Award(1994-95) Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award(1995-96) Padma Shri(1999) On the other hand, things began to go in the wrong way. She was not capable to win a medal at the 1999 Athens World Weight Lifting Championships. A lot of reasons were specified for her underprivileged presentation. It was suspected that she ate the off beam kinds of foods and had become heavy. Extremely stung by these accusations, Malleswari determined to focus on her training and to make use of the Olympics as the ground to demonstrate her critics wrong. There was disagreement over the selection of weightlifters for India's Olympic players. With three contestants and two spots, there was disparagement when Kunjarani Devi was gone out. By captivating the bronze medal, Malleswari cemented every person wrong and bounced back. At some point in her career across ten years she has won 11 gold and three silver medals in addition to the prestigious Olympic bronze. She has been the National Champion for nine years - twice in the 52 kg group and seven times in the 54 kg class.