Sanamacha Chanu
| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Sanamacha Thingbaijam Chanu |
| Born | 1 February 1975 Manipur, India |
| Weight | 52.74 kg (116.3 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country |  India |
| Sport | Weightlifting |
| Weight class | 53 kg |
| Team | National team |
| Updated on 13 September 2016 | |
Sanamacha Thingbaijam Chanu (born 1 February 1975) is an Indian weightlifter who competed in the women's 53 kg weight class at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She had also won three golds at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester and was a part of the core team for the 2010 Commonwealth Games at New Delhi, during the trials for which, she was tested positive for methylhexanamine; a stimulant commonly used as a nasal decongestant.[1]
Major results
[edit]| Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
| World Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2003 |  Vancouver, Canada |
53 kg | 77.5 | 80 | 82.5 | 9 | 102.5 | 107.5 | 7 | 190 | 7 | |
| 1999 |  Piraeus, Greece |
48 kg | --- | 90 | 15 | 0 | --- | |||||
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Weightlifter Sanamacha Chanu caught for doping - Hindustan Times". Archived from the original on 25 January 2013.
External links
[edit]Commonwealth Games Champions in Weightlifting – Women's Featherweight | |
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