#3 She comes from a multi-athletic background
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Being a sportsperson has always been a top priority for Kavita throughout her life. She has been a national-level champion in Weightlifting, Wushu as well as Mixed Martial Arts (MMA).
Kavita’s primary focus, however, has always been weightlifting. She had started training in the sport in 2002 at Faridabad, Haryana, eventually moving to training facilities in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. She has been a multiple time National Senior Weightlifting Champion since 2007.
Kavita left her position as a Sub Inspector at SSB to focus on her sporting career in 2010, as she wasn’t being given permission to compete in several tournaments by the government, even causing her to miss out on an international tournament in Russia, which was the last straw for her.
The pinnacle of her weightlifting career was perhaps her performance in the 2016 South Asian Games, which was held in Guwahati, Assam. Kavita bagged the Gold Medal in the 75 KG category after she posted a total of 210 Kilos (92 Kilos Snatch and 118 Kilos Clean & Jerk).
Kavita’s total was the highest by a woman in the tournament in any category (including the one weight class higher than hers) and she had comfortably beaten Silver medalist Wickeramasinghe Selage of Sri Lanka by a margin of 50 Kilos.
The difference by which she had won the Gold Medal was the highest in any weight class regardless of gender at the tournament, a dominant display of sheer strength and technique unmatched by anyone else.
