SUNDAY, August 25, 2013
Born on May 5, 1982, Krishna Poonia is an Indian discus thrower. She led an Indian clean sweep in the women’s discus final on 11 October 2010, winning the Delhi Commonwealth Games gold medal with a throw of 61.51 metres.
Krishna Poonia belongs to a Jat family who was born in Agroha, Hisar district of Haryana. She married Virender Singh Poonia of Gagarwas village in Churu district in Rajasthan in 2000. The couple work for Indian Railways and live in Jaipur. Virender Singh is a former athlete who coached Krishna after marriage. Krishna studied sociology in Kanodia Girls College in Jaipur.
Poonia won bronze medal in 2006 Doha Asian Games. Krishna Poonia threw the discus to 61.53, her personal best, in the second try and finished behind Aimin Sing of China (63.52) and Ma Xuenjun, also of China (62.43). Krishna Poonia had won gold medal in the 46th Open National athletics championships to nose ahead of favourites Seema Antil and Harwant Kaur while registering a career-best 60.10 metres distance.
On May 8, 2012, she bettered her personal best with a throw of 64.76 meters in Hawaii, USA, which is the new national record.
Discus thrower Krishna Poonia is the first Indian woman athlete to win the Gold Medal in Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi. Poonia led the historic clean sweep of the discus event by clearing 61.5 meters. She is the first Indian woman to win a gold medal in track and field events of Commonwealth games and the first Indian to win a gold medal in such events after Milkha Singh who had won the gold in Men’s 440 yards race in the 1958 Cardiff Commonwealth Games
She finished a creditable seventh in the women’s discus throw in the 2012 London Olympics. Poonia’s best effort of 63.62 m came in her fifth and penultimate attempt. Earlier she became only the sixth Indian to make it to the final round of track and field events in an Olympics after Milkha Singh, P T Usha, S Sriram, Gurbachan Singh Randhawa and Anju Bobby George. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishna_Poonia
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Questions of this week:
1. By which margin India-A defeated South Africa-A in the first 4-day match in South Africa?
2. For which team Umesh Yadav played in Indian Premier League Season-6?
3. Who was top scorer for India A in their first innings against South Africa A of the ongoing series?
4. Name the Indian cricketer who has been selected for Arjuna Award recently?
5. Who is Raju Sethi?
Answers of the last week:
1. 50 runs 2. Royal Challengers Bangalore 3. 137 runs 4. Ronjan Sodhi 5. former First-Class cricketer of J&K.
The best entry of this week was received from Tushar Mahajan of H No 55, Lower Laxmi Nagar, Sarwal Jammu.
The other entries of the week were from Amit Sharma of Bakshi Nagar, Jammu, Sanjay Dhar from Lane No 1, H No 3, Upper Laxmi Nagar, Jammu, Rajesh Sumbria of Krishna Nagar, Jammu, Akash Gupta of Gole Pully, Talab Tiloo, Jammu, Nitin Sharma of Doda and Rahul Mussa of TRT Camp Nagrota. Jammu.
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