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Pooja Dhanda (born 1 January 1994) is an Indian wrestler from Budana village of Hisar district in Haryana, who won Bronze medal at the 2018 World Championships at Budapest in 57 kg weight class. She won Silver medals at 2010 Summer Youth Olympics and 2018 Commonwealth Games at Gold Coast in 60 kg and 57 kg category respectively.
Pooja Dhanda is an Indian freestyle wrestler. In 2018, she won a bronze medal in the 57 kg category at the World Championship. She has also been bestowed with ‘Bharat Kesari’ four times.
Pooja Dhanda is an Indian freestyle wrestler, who participates in 57 kg women wrestling events. In 2019, she received the prestigious Arjuna Award.
Daughter of a tractor driver from Haryana, Pooja Dhanda’s competitive spirit has seen her grow into one of the most promising Indian women wrestlers of her generation. Along the way, she has even found a fan in Olympic gold medallist Helen Maroulis – someone she herself idolizes.
Oct 26, 2018 · On Thursday evening, as 24-year-old Pooja Dhanda faced Norway’s Grace Jacob Bhullen in the 57 kg bronze medal match in the World Wrestling Championship in Budapest, Hungary; her father Ajmer Singh was watching the match nervously in Hisar.
Indian wrestler Pooja Dhanda has won medals on the global stage in judo as well as wrestling for India, and continues to be a force to reckon with in Indian women’s wrestling.
Dec 27, 2023 · Indian wrestler Pooja Dhanda, who won the bronze medal at the 2018 World Championships in the 57kg, was handed a one-year ban by India’s National Anti-Doping Agency ( NADA) due to three whereabouts failures.
