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Pooja Gehlot

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when she was about six years of age. However, her father Vijender Singh was opposed to her playing wrestling and Gehlot started playing volleyball. She went up to play at the junior national-level in volleyball. Although, her coaches thought that she was not tall enough to make an impact in the game.
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Another major step for her was winning a silver medal at the under-23 World Wrestling Championship in the 51 kg category in Budapest, Hungary in 2019. She also became only the second Indian woman to win a silver medal in that event.
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She won the national junior wrestling championship in 2016 in the 48 kg weight category. However, in the same year, she suffered an injury that kept her away from wrestling for more than year.
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Pooja Gehlot was born on 15 March 1997 in Delhi in a Jat Family. She showed keen interest in sports from an early age. Her uncle Dharamveer Singh was a wrestler and he started taking her to an
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Gehlot found her first success in the international arena when she won a gold medal in the Asian Junior Championship in Taiwan in 2017.
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and start training with boys. It was not easy for Gehlot to wrestle with boys and she felt shy wearing a singlet. The family moved to
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held in Birmingham, England. She also won a silver medal at the
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town in Haryana to enable her to access better training.
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Delhi
India
Freestyle wrestling
freestyle wrestling
India
Commonwealth Games
World U23 Wrestling Championships
Commonwealth Games
2022 Birmingham
50 kg
World U23 Championships
2019 Budapest
53 kg
wrestler
women's 50 kg
2022 Commonwealth Games
2019 U23 World Wrestling Championships
53 kg category
akhara
Geeta Phogat
Babita Kumari Phogat
2010 Commonwealth Games
Rohtak
Yasar Dogu Tournament
50 kg
Aktenge Keunimjaeva
2022 Asian Games
China
Hangzhou

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