Archive · 7 Oct 2026
Mirabai Chanu Finds Peace After Long-Awaited Asian Games Silver
Mirabai Chanu has won medals at many major competitions, but the Asian Games medal had been missing.
She finally won an Asian Games silver in Nagoya after trying across four Asian Games cycles.
Her coach, Vijay Sharma, helped plan her training and decide which lifts to attempt.
They kept her past injuries in mind and focused on reaching the Asian Games in good shape.
Chanu trusted her coach to make quick decisions during the event.
She said the medal helped ease the disappointment of finishing fourth at the Paris Olympics.
She and her coach felt the medal brought them peace and closure.
Chanu is now looking ahead to the LA Olympics and moving up to the 53 kg category.
Mirabai Chanu won an Asian Games silver in Nagoya, completing a medal set that had eluded her across four Asian Games cycles.
She had previously won medals at the World Championships, Commonwealth Games and Tokyo Olympics.
Chanu and coach Vijay Sharma managed her training loads with her past injuries in mind and avoided chasing a Commonwealth Games record.
Sharma made competition-day lifting decisions, while Chanu said she trusted his guidance, including when he told her a third lift was unnecessary.
Chanu said the Asian Games medal eased the pain of her fourth-place finish at the Paris Olympics; she is now preparing to move to the 53 kg category for the LA Olympics.
- Who
- Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu and her coach, Vijay Sharma.
- What
- Chanu won an Asian Games silver medal, completing her Asian Games medal set.
- When
- After four Asian Games cycles; the article does not give the medal's date.
- Where
- Nagoya.
- Why
- The medal completed a long-standing goal and, Chanu said, helped ease the pain of missing a medal at the Paris Olympics.
- Asian Games result
- Silver medal
- Location stated
- Nagoya
- Time to achieve goal
- Four Asian Games cycles
- Coach
- Vijay Sharma
- Earlier Olympic result mentioned
- Historic silver at the Tokyo Olympics
- Paris Olympics result mentioned
- Fourth place
- Next stated weight class
- 53 kg
- Next stated target
- LA Olympics