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|birth_place = Maharashtra, India<br />
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{{MedalGold|[[2022 Junior World Weightlifting Championships|2022 Heraklion]]|[[2022 Junior World Weightlifting Championships#Women's 45 kg|45 kg]]}}<br />
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{{MedalGold|2022 Tashkent|45 kg}}<br />
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'''Harshada Garud''' is a weightlifter from [[Maharashtra]], India. At the [[2022 Junior World Weightlifting Championships]], she became the first Indian to win a gold medal in [[International Weightlifting Federation]]'s [[World Juniors Weightlifting Championships]].<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Harshada Garud is born on 8 November 2003, at [[Vadgaon Maval]] near [[Pune]], [[Maharashtra]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=From lifting rice sacks to a world championship gold - Harshada Garud's amazing story |url=https://olympics.com/en/news/who-is-harshada-garud-indian-weightlifter | first=Aarish | last=Ansari | date=5 May 2022 | accessdate=8 October 2022}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Junior Women's Medalists |url=https://iwlf.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/ResultBook_JUNIOR-NLS-1.pdf}}</ref> Harshada's father Sharad Garud, is also a weightlifter, who had won weightlifting silver at state school games.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Living her father's dream, Harshada Garud becomes first junior world champ from India in weightlifting |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/sport/other/2022/may/03/living-her-fathers-dream-harshada-garud-becomes-1st-junior-world-champ-from-india-in-weightlifting-2449035.html |access-date=2022-05-07 |website=The New Indian Express |date=2 May 2022 }}</ref> She is studying [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] at [[Savitribai Phule Pune University]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kotian |first=Harish |title=Weightlifter Harshada India's first Jr World Champion |url=https://www.rediff.com/sports/report/weightlifter-harshada-indias-first-jr-world-champion/20220502.htm |access-date=2022-05-07 |website=Rediff |language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Weightlifting career ==<br />
In 2022, Harshada Garud won gold medal in the World junior weightlifting championships held at Heraklion, Greece.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Sarangi |first=Y. B. |title=Harshada Garud wins world junior weightlifting championships gold, India's first in the event |url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/other-sports/harshada-garud-world-junior-weightlifting-championships-gold/article38483790.ece |access-date=2022-05-07 |website=Sportstar |date=2 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref> She is the first Indian to win a gold medal in [[World Juniors Weightlifting Championships]].<ref name=":0" /> She had also won U-17 girls weightlifting gold medal at the [[2020 Khelo India Youth Games]] and bronze medal at the 2020 Asian junior championships in [[Tashkent]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-05-02 |title=India's Harshada wins historic junior world weightlifting gold |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/sports/others/indias-harshada-wins-historic-junior-world-weightlifting-gold-101651512811280.html |access-date=2022-05-07 |website=Hindustan Times |language=en}}</ref> She also won third rank in 45 kg junior woman category, in [[Indian Weightlifting Federation|IWLF]] Youth, Junior & Senior National Weightlifting Championships 2021-22 held at [[Bhubaneswar]], [[Odisha]].<ref name=":1" /><br />
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