Mirabai Chanu Injured: Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu will take an enforced five-month break from weightlifting. This means that her season has ended prematurely. During the break, the weightlifter will be work on strengthening her rotator cuff and shoulder. When taking part in competitions, the injuries have caused wrist and lower back pain. She will be next seen during the Asian Games in May 2023. Follow Live Updates with InsideSport.In
Mirabai Chanu Injured: Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu’s heads for an injury enforced five-month break; likely to be seen in action at Asian Meet in May 2023: Follow Live Updates
Extremely humbled and grateful for this victory. Small step towards our eventual goal of an Olympic gold.
Gratitude to my Coach Vijay sir, our President IWLF Sahdev Yadav sir, Sports Authority of India, all the stakeholders and well wishers. Will always make you proud 🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/eTBsmdTsXR— Saikhom Mirabai Chanu (@mirabai_chanu) December 7, 2022
Mirabai’s management has decided to give the champion weightlifter some much-needed rest before the Olympic qualification rounds. It all started with the recent World Championships in Colombia’s capital, Bogota.
Chanu is one of India’s top medal prospects for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Mirabai won silver in the women’s 49 kg category at the Worlds, despite a sprained left wrist, ahead of China’s Tokyo Olympics champion Hou Zhihui.
It’s time to be back home ✈️ pic.twitter.com/eppwciE3Rn
— Saikhom Mirabai Chanu (@mirabai_chanu) December 11, 2022
What’s next for Chanu?
After a successful outing in Bogota, Mirabai and coach Sharma have returned to their training base at NIS Patiala.
Mirabai has decided to postpone her competition until May of next year, when the Asian weightlifting championships will be held in Jinju-si, South Korea, from May 3 to 13.
During this time, she will remain at NIS to treat her weak shoulder and aching back. To begin, Mirabai will refrain from lifting heavy weights for one month, with the exception of her regular gym sessions.
Chanu will instead focus on strengthening her shoulders through exercises suggested by the coach.
Once the shoulder part is resolved, the focus will then shift to resolving the chronic back pain, which has been troubling her since her gold-winning effort at the Gold Coast CWG in 2018.
The pain in her left wrist, has troubled Mirabai during her Worlds campaign.
She injured her wrist during one of her training sessions in NIS in September, shortly after returning from Birmingham with her second CWG gold medal. She had competed despite an injury to win her first National Games gold medal in Gujarat, but had missed the Asian Championships in Bahrain in October.
Mirabai’s next major challenge will be the Asian Games, which will be held in Hangzhou from September 23 to October 8, 2023.
Mirabai Chanu Injured: Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu’s heads for an injury enforced five-month break; likely to be seen in action at Asian Meet in May 2023: Follow Live Updates
#SaturdayMotivation
Hardwork,
Determination,
Belief !@mirabai_chanu 🥈 at 2022 World Weightlifting Championships! pic.twitter.com/G5EAJY1ydD— PRO Shillong, Ministry of Defence (@proshillong) December 9, 2022
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