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{{short description|Indian freestyle wrestler}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=September 2022}}
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| name = Pooja Gehlot
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| caption = Gehlot in August 2022
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1997|3|15}}
| birth_place = Lampur village, [[Delhi]], India
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| country = [[India]]
| sport = [[Freestyle wrestling]]
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| event = 50 kg/53 kg
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{{MedalSilver|[[2019 World U23 Wrestling Championship|2019 Budapest]]|[[2019 World U23 Wrestling Championships|53 kg]]}}
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'''Pooja Gehlot''' (born 15 March 1997) is an Indian freestyle [[wrestler]]. She won the bronze medal in the [[Wrestling at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Women's freestyle 50 kg|women's 50 kg]] event at the [[2022 Commonwealth Games]] held in Birmingham, England.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Berkeley |first=Geoff |date=6 August 2022 |title=Phogat completes Commonwealth Games hat-trick with another wrestling gold |work=InsideTheGames.biz |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1126690/phogat-third-commonwealth-games-title |access-date=6 August 2022}}</ref><ref name="wrestling_competition_summary_commonwealth_games_2022">{{Cite web |title=Wrestling Competition Summary |url=https://b2022-pdf.microplustimingservices.com/WRE/2022-08-06/WRE-------------------------------__C96_1.0.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220806191350/https://b2022-pdf.microplustimingservices.com/WRE/2022-08-06/WRE-------------------------------__C96_1.0.pdf |archive-date=6 August 2022 |access-date=6 August 2022 |website=2022 Commonwealth Games}}</ref> She also won a silver medal at the [[2019 U23 World Wrestling Championships]] in the [[2019 U23 World Wrestling Championships#Women's freestyle|53 kg category]].<ref>{{Cite web|author=Scroll Staff|title=Wrestling U-23 World C'ships: Pooja Gehlot wins India's second silver, Sajan to compete for bronze|url=https://scroll.in/field/942427/wrestling-u-23-world-cships-pooja-gehlot-wins-indias-second-silver-sajan-to-compete-for-bronze|access-date=2020-11-24|website=Scroll.in|date=2 November 2019 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|agency=PTI|date=2 Nov 2019|title=Pooja Gehlot wins silver at Under-23 World Wrestling Championships {{!}} More sports News - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/more-sports/wrestling/pooja-gehlot-wins-silver-at-under-23-world-wrestling-championships/articleshow/71862054.cms|access-date=2020-11-24|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref> Gehlot participated in this championship after a two-year break because of a shoulder injury.

== Personal life and background ==

Pooja Gehlot was born on 15 March 1997 in Delhi in a Jat Family. She showed keen interest in sports from an early age. Her uncle Dharamveer Singh was a wrestler and he started taking her to an ''[[akhara]]'' when she was about six years of age. However, her father Vijender Singh was opposed to her playing wrestling and Gehlot started playing volleyball. She went up to play at the junior national-level in volleyball. Although, her coaches thought that she was not tall enough to make an impact in the game.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|title=पूजा गहलोतः वॉलीबॉल खिलाड़ी जो पहलवान बनीं|language=hi|work=BBC News हिंदी|url=https://www.bbc.com/hindi/sport-55828896|access-date=2021-03-08}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2019-11-02|title=Pooja Gehlot wrestles past hurdles to claim World silver|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/sport-others/pooja-gehlot-wrestles-past-hurdles-to-claim-world-silver-6098731/|access-date=2021-03-08|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}</ref>

Gehlot's got inspired after [[Geeta Phogat]] and [[Babita Kumari|Babita Kumari Phogat]] from Haryana won medals for India at the [[2010 Commonwealth Games]]. The Phogat sisters' success inspired Gehlot to switch to wrestling.<ref name=":0" /> She began training professionally in 2014. However, the suburb of Delhi - where her family was living at the time - did not have a wrestling practice centre for girls. She found a training centre in Delhi city, which meant she had to travel three hours by bus every day to reach there and she had to wake up at 3 AM for that. However, the long distance had eventually forced her to shift to a nearby ''akhara'' and start training with boys. It was not easy for Gehlot to wrestle with boys and she felt shy wearing a singlet.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Siwach|first=Vinay|title=Wrestling: After silver at U-23 World Championships, Pooja Gehlot strengthens Olympic belief|url=https://scroll.in/field/942620/wrestling-after-silver-at-u-23-world-championships-pooja-gehlot-strengthens-olympic-belief|access-date=2021-03-08|website=Scroll.in|date=4 November 2019 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> The family moved to [[Rohtak]] town in Haryana to enable her to access better training.<ref name=":0" />

She won the national junior wrestling championship in 2016 in the 48 kg weight category. However, in the same year, she suffered an injury that kept her away from wrestling for more than year.<ref name=":1" />

== Professional Achievements ==
Gehlot found her first success in the international arena when she won a gold medal in the Asian Junior Championship in Taiwan in 2017.

Another major step for her was winning a silver medal at the under-23 World Wrestling Championship in the 51 kg category in Budapest, Hungary in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|agency=PTI|date=2 Nov 2019|title=Pooja Gehlot wins silver at Under-23 World Wrestling Championships {{!}} More sports News - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/more-sports/wrestling/pooja-gehlot-wins-silver-at-under-23-world-wrestling-championships/articleshow/71862054.cms|access-date=2021-03-08|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref> She also became only the second Indian woman to win a silver medal in that event.<ref name=":2" />

In 2022, she competed at the [[2022 Yasar Dogu Tournament|Yasar Dogu Tournament]] held in Istanbul, Turkey.

== Senior career results ==
{| class="wikitable"
! width="30" |Res.
! width="30" |Record
! width="220" |Opponent
! width="60" |Score
! width="100" |Date
! width="180" |Event
! width="120" |Location
|-
! colspan="7" |Tied 5th at [[Wrestling at the 2022 Asian Games – Women's freestyle 50 kg|50 kg]]
|-
|Loss
|6-6
|{{flagathlete|[[Aktenge Keunimjaeva]]|KAZ}}
|2-9
| rowspan="4" |5 October 2023
| rowspan="4" |[[2022 Asian Games]]
| rowspan="4" |{{flagicon|CHN}} [[Hangzhou]]
|-
|Loss
|6-5
|{{flagathlete|[[Remina Yoshimoto]]|JPN}}
|0-10
|-
|Win
|6-4
|{{flagathlete|[[Tsogt-Ochiryn Namuuntsetseg]]|MGL}}
|5-1
|-
|Win
|5-4
|{{flagathlete|Manlika Esati|THA}}
|10-0
|-
! colspan="7" |{{Bronze3}} Bronze Medal at [[Wrestling at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Women's freestyle 50 kg|50 kg]]
|-
|Loss
|4-4
|{{flagathlete|[[Madison Parks]]|CAN}}
|6-9
| rowspan="4" |6 August 2022
| rowspan="4" |[[2022 Commonwealth Games]]
| rowspan="4" |{{flagicon|SRB}} [[Birmingham]]
|-
|Win
|4-3
|{{flagathlete|Christelle Letchdijio|SCO}}
|12-2
|-
|Win
|3-3
|{{flagathlete|[[Rebecca Muambo]]|CMR}}
|5-0
|-
|Win
|2-3
|{{flagathlete|Christelle Letchdijio|SCO}}
|12-2
|-
! colspan="7" |6th at [[2022 Bolat Turlykhanov Cup#Women's freestyle 53 kg|53 kg]]
|-
|Loss
|1-3
|{{flagathlete|Leyla Gurbanova|AZE}}
|2-7
|3 June 2022
|[[2022 Bolat Turlykhanov Cup]]
|{{flagicon|KAZ}} [[Almaty]], [[Kazakhstan]]
|-
! colspan="7" |Tied 5th at [[2022 Yasar Dogu Tournament#Women's freestyle 53 kg|53 kg]]
|-
|Loss
|1-2
|{{flagathlete|[[Bat-Ochiryn Bolortuyaa]]|MGL}}
|1-11
| rowspan="3" |26 February 2022
| rowspan="3" |[[2022 Yasar Dogu Tournament]]
| rowspan="3" |{{flagicon|TUR}} [[Istanbul]]
|-
|Loss
|1-1
|{{flagathlete|[[Dominique Parrish]]|USA}}
|2-6, Fall
|-
|Win
|1-0
|{{flagathlete|[[Aktenge Keunimjaeva]]|KAZ}}
|8-1
|}

== References ==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IWD}}
* {{UWW|gehlot-pooja}}
* {{2022 Commonwealth Games profile|127375}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gehlot, Pooja}}
[[Category:1997 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Sportswomen from Delhi]]
[[Category:Sport wrestlers from Delhi]]
[[Category:Indian female sport wrestlers]]
[[Category:Wrestlers at the 2022 Commonwealth Games]]
[[Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for India]]
[[Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in wrestling]]
[[Category:Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games]]
[[Category:Wrestlers at the 2022 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Asian Games wrestlers for India]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian sportswomen]]

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