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Savita Punia (born 11 July 1990) is an Indian field hockey player and is a member of the India women's national field hockey team. She hails from Haryana and plays as the goalkeeper. Savita Punia is also known as "Great Wall of India" because of her phenomenal and outstanding performance in 2020 Summer Olympics.
Aug 6, 2021 · India’s women’s team goalkeeper Savita Punia was in tears after the final whistle. She was inconsolable after India lost a hard-fought bronze play-off match 3-4 against the Rio Olympics gold medallist Great Britain on Thursday.
Aug 1, 2021 · Before the start of Tokyo 2020, Savita Punia had said that the Indian women’s team fielding eight players who had been part of Rio 2016 would help. Her experience proved invaluable on Monday as India defeated Australia 1-0 in women’s hockey to reach the Olympics semifinal for the very first time.
Apr 14, 2022 · Savita Punia produced her best in the Indian women’s hockey team’s quarterfinal triumph over the mighty Australians at the Tokyo Olympics. In a chat with Sportstar, she reflects...
Who is Savita Punia? See her profile, read the full biography of the Indian women's hockey team goalkeeper and know how many medals and titles she has won in her career.
Savita Punia (right) established herself as India’s undisputed number one goalkeeper with a bronze medal show at the 2014 Asian Games. Photo: Hockey India. Her match-winning save to deny China’s Liang Meiyu was one of her standout moments from the tournament, where she was deservedly adjudged the goalkeeper of the tournament.
Aug 6, 2021 · Christened 'The Wall' for her stellar role as goalkeeper in the national women's hockey team, 31-year-old Savita Punia's saves helped India beat Australia at the Tokyo Olympics to enter the...
Jul 22, 2022 · Savita Punia has been the wall of Indian women’s hockey for so long that it is easy to take her for granted. Being spotlight-averse has only ensured that the credit she deserved either...
Savita Punia's experience will be crucial to an Indian side in the absence of Rani Rampal at the World Cup Hockey India. Modern day hockey is fast, and the pressure is relentless.
Aug 10, 2021 · Savita Punia of India is consoled after they lost their women's hockey bronze play-off. (Reuters) Girish Karnad’s memoir begins with his mother’s life. At the age of 84, Kuttabai Mankikar wrote her story. Not in a fresh clean notebook, but in an old diary kept by her husband.
