Kalpana Devi Thoudam (born 24 December 1989) is an Indian

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, born in Imphal East, Manipur. She won the bronze medal in the women's 52 kg weight class at the

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Career

In her career as a

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ka, Thoudam won a silver at the sub-junior national championship in

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in 1998. She then won four gold medals at the junior national championships and one gold at junior Asian judo championship. In 2007, she placed second at the Asian U20 Championships, held in Hyderabad. In 2010, she won a bronze at the International Judo Federation World Cup in Tashkent. In the same year, she won a gold medal at the Commonwealth Judo Championships in

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. In 2013, she became the first Indian to win a medal at the IJF Grand Prix in

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, when she won a bronze medal. She defeated Zarifa Sultanova of Uzbekistan, but lost to Israeli Gili Cohen. In the repechage round she defeated Raquel Silva from Brazil. Additionally, she has served as the Head Constable of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police. In the

, she won bronze in the 52 kg weight class. She has also won gold medals at the Indian Championships in 2017 and 2018, held in Chennai and Jammu, respectively.

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* Living people Indian female judoka 1989 births People from Imphal East district Judoka at the 2010 Asian Games Judoka at the 2014 Asian Games Judoka at the 2018 Asian Games Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for India Sportswomen from Manipur Judoka at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Indian female martial artists Commonwealth Games medallists in judo 21st-century Indian women 21st-century Indian people Martial artists from Manipur Asian Games competitors for India {{India-judo-bio-stub