FULL NAME: Kiran Kumari Digal
GENDER: Female
BORN: May 25, 1994
FAMILY: Father (Sitaram Digal), mother (Alpina Digal)
PERMANENT ADDRESS: At/PO/PS- Raikia, Dist- Kandhamal (Odisha).
PRESENT ADDRESS: Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION: Plus Three first year arts student of Dev Ray College, Bhubaneswar.
RECEIVED COACHING FROM: P Dharma Rao

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:

STATE:
*     Won the Gold medal in 75kg weight class of the 31st Women State Weightlifting Championships, held at Berhampur on Nov 29, 2015.
*     Won a Gold medal for Khurda with the total lift of 147kg in women’s 63kg category of the State Weightlifting Championship, held at Berahampur on February 23, 2014.

NATIONAL:
*     Won three Gold medals in the 69kg weight class, lifting 53+62kg in the 6th Youth National Weightlifting Championship held at Yamuna Nagar, Haryana from January 2 to 4, 2011.
*     Won one Silver medal in 63kg class, lifting 42+55kg in the School National Championship held at Patiala, Punjab in 2008.

INTERNATIONAL:
*     Won three Bronze medals in the 63kg class, lifting a total of 122kg (Snatch55kg, clean & jerk 67kg) in the Asian Youth Championship held at Pataya in Thailand from September 5 to 12, 2011. Originally, she finished fourth, but was awarded the medals in 2013 after the gold medallist in the category failed in the dope test.

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
*     Appointed directly as Police Constable in Kandhamal district and received the appointment letter from the hands of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar on April 30, 2015.
*     Started her weightlifting career from Sports Hostel, Bhubaneswar in the year 2007.

PROFILE FIRST POSTED: 7 January, 2011
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: 20 April, 2021