{"id":14920,"date":"2022-04-04T04:16:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T04:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=14920"},"modified":"2022-04-04T04:18:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T04:18:30","slug":"mirabai-chanu-weightlifter-is-2021-bbc-indian-sportswoman-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=14920","title":{"rendered":"**  Mirabai Chanu: Weightlifter is 2021 BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu has won the BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year award for 2021, following a public vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Olympic silver medallist beat golfer Aditi Ashok, boxer Lovlina Borgohain, Para-shooter Avani Lekhara, and badminton player PV Sindhu to the award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chanu became the first Indian weightlifter to win a silver medal at an Olympic Games, when she finished second in the 49kg category in Tokyo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">bbc.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu has won the BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year award for 2021, following a public vote. The Olympic silver medallist beat golfer Aditi Ashok, boxer Lovlina Borgohain, Para-shooter Avani Lekhara, and badminton player PV Sindhu to the award. Chanu became the first Indian weightlifter to win a silver medal at an Olympic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=14920\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">**  Mirabai Chanu: Weightlifter is 2021 BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20,12,22,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazing-feats","category-records-india-national","category-sports","category-top-10-in-asia","category-women-girls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14922,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14920\/revisions\/14922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}