Pooja Singh | |
Birth Date: | 2007 2, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Haryana, India |
Country: | India |
Sport: | High Jump |
Pb: | 1.82 m (2023) |
Pooja Singh (born 21 February 2007) is an Indian athlete. She competes in the high jump event. She is named in the Indian athletics team for the high jump event for the 2022 Asian Games at Hangzhou, China.[1] She reached the finals of the Asian Games women's high jump event along with compatriot Rubina Yadav and finished sixth. Rubina finished ninth.
Pooja hails from Bosti village in Haryana. Her father Hansraj is a construction worker.[2] Coach Balwan Singh spotted Pooja while during a yoga session and was impressed with her yoga postures, charasana and dhanurasana (yoga forms) and recruited her and started training her as a high jumper.[3]
Representing | ||||||
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2023 | Asian U18 Championships | Tashkent, Uzbekistan | bgcolor=gold | 1st | High jump | 1.77 m |
Asian U20 Championships | Yecheon, South Korea | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | High jump | 1.82 m | |
Asian Championships | Bangkok, Thailand | 7th | High jump | 1.75 m | ||
Asian Games | Hangzhou, China | 6th | High jump | 1.80 m |