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{{Short description|Indian handball player}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2025}}

{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Pooja Kanwar
| image =
| caption =
| nationality = Indian
| birth_date = 15 April 2003
| birth_place = [[Rajasthan]], India
| occupation = Handball player
| years_active = 2023–present
| position = Right wing
| team = [[India women's national handball team]], [[Rajasthan]] (domestic)
}}

'''Pooja Kanwar''' (born 15 April 2003)<ref>{{Cite web |title=IHF {{!}} POOJA |url=https://www.ihf.info/about/players/profiles/91277 |access-date=2025-07-12 |website=www.ihf.info |language=en}}</ref> is a handball player from [[Rajasthan]]. She plays for the [[India women's national handball team]] as right wing. She plays for Rajasthan in the domestic events.

== Early life ==
Kanwar is from Rajasthan, India.

== Career ==
In March 2024, Kanwar was the captain of the Rajasthan team which won a silver medal at the 52nd Senior Women’s National Handball Championship at Hathras, Uttar Pradesh.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-03-12 |title=Indian Railways upset defending champions Rajasthan to win Senior National Women's Handball Championship |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/more-sports/others/indian-railways-upset-defending-champions-rajasthan-to-win-senior-national-womens-handball-championship/articleshow/108440857.cms |access-date=2025-07-12 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref> In March 2023, she was also part of the Rajasthan team that won the 51st Senior Women’s National Handball Championship at [[Varanasi]], Uttar Pradesh held under the aegis of [[Handball Association of India]]

In 2023, she was part of the Indian women's team at the [[2022 Asian Games|Asian Games]] at [[Hangzhou]], the [[People’s Republic of China]]. This is the fifth Asian Games for the Indian women's handball team. They finished third in a tough group behind [[Japan women's national handball team|Japan]] and [[China women's national handball team|China]] and failed to advance.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Peesara |first=Anuraag |date=30 September 2023 |title=Asian Games 2023 handball: Indian women's team's campaigns ends in group stage |url=https://www.olympics.com/en/news/asian-games-2023-hangzhou-women-handball-schedule-results-india |access-date=11 July 2025 |website=Olympics}}</ref>

In February 2023, she was selected to play the [[Asian Handball Federation|AHF]] President Cup Senior Women's Handball at [[Amman]], Jordan.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rajasthan: जॉर्डन में भारत का प्रतिनिधित्व करेंगी राजस्थान की बेटियां, हैंडबॉल में दिखाएंगी जौहर |url=https://www.amarujala.com/jaipur/rajasthan-pooja-kanwar-priya-kanwar-and-champa-selected-in-handball-team-for-ahf-president-cup-to-be-played-in-2023-02-06 |access-date=2025-07-12 |website=Amar Ujala |language=hi}}</ref> In November 2023, she also skippered the Rajasthan team which played the 37th [[National Games of India|National Games]] at [[Goa]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-11-02 |title=National Games: Manish, Pooja to lead Raj handball teams |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/104902984.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst |access-date=2025-07-12 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:2003 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Sportswomen from Rajasthan]]
[[Category:Indian women's handball players]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian sportswomen]]
[[Category:Basketball players from Rajasthan]]
[[Category:Handball players at the 2022 Asian Games]]

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