{"id":171583,"date":"2025-05-03T12:39:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T07:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=171583"},"modified":"2025-05-03T12:39:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T07:09:51","slug":"indias-first-woman-to-win-an-olympic-medal-karnam-malleswari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/indias-first-woman-to-win-an-olympic-medal-karnam-malleswari\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s first woman to win an Olympic medal \u2013 Karnam Malleswari"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, Karnam Malleswari, a remarkable weightlifter, carved out her place in both Olympic and Indian sports history. She lifted 110 kg in the \u201csnatch\u201d and 130 kg in the \u201cclean and jerk,\u201d totaling 240 kg, which earned her the bronze medal and made her the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Historic Achievement:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Event:<\/strong> Women\u2019s 69 kg Weightlifting<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Olympics:<\/strong> 2000 Sydney Olympics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Medal:<\/strong> Bronze<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Significance of Her Win:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malleswari\u2019s bronze medal was a significant milestone for Indian sports, inspiring future generations of female athletes throughout the country. This victory was particularly remarkable, as it was India\u2019s first Olympic medal in individual events after a 44-year gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Major Achievements:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>World Championships:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Won the World Weightlifting Championships in 1994 and 1995.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Secured multiple gold and silver medals in her career.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Arjuna Award:<\/strong> 1994 for her contribution to Indian sports.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award:<\/strong> India\u2019s highest sporting honor in 1999.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Padma Shri:<\/strong> Awarded in 1999 for her outstanding contribution to Indian sports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, Karnam Malleswari, a remarkable weightlifter, carved out her place in both Olympic and Indian sports history. She lifted 110 kg in the \u201csnatch\u201d and 130 kg in the \u201cclean and jerk,\u201d totaling 240 kg, which earned her the bronze medal and made her the first Indian woman to win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":171584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5369],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-awareness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171585,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171583\/revisions\/171585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}