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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian freestyle wrestler}}<br />
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'''Pooja Sihag''' (born 17 July 1997) is an Indian [[Freestyle wrestling|freestyle wrestler]]. She won one of the bronze medals in the [[Wrestling at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Women's freestyle 76 kg|women's 76 kg]] event at the [[2022 Commonwealth Games]] held in Birmingham, England.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://theprint.in/sport/cwg-2022-indian-wrestler-pooja-sihag-advances-to-semis-of-womens-76-kg-category-vinesh-phogat-continues-winning/1072074/ | title=CWG 2022: Indian wrestler Pooja Sihag advances to semis of women's 76 kg category, Vinesh Phogat continues winning | publisher=The Print | date=6 August 2022 | accessdate=6 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.news18.com/news/sports/cwg-2022-pooja-sihag-of-india-wins-bronze-at-the-2022-commonwealth-games-5703589.html | title=CWG 2022: Pooja Sihag of India Wins Bronze at the 2022 Commonwealth Games | publisher=News18 | date=7 August 2022 | accessdate=7 August 2022}}</ref><br />
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== Career ==<br />
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In 2017, she competed in the [[2017 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 75 kg|women's 75 kg]] event at the [[2017 World Wrestling Championships|World Wrestling Championships]] held in Paris, France.<ref name="uww_world_wrestling_world_championships_2017">{{Cite web|url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/media/document/event/results/final-book_1.pdf|title=2017 World Wrestling Championships|website=United World Wrestling|url-status=live|access-date=13 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501222916/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/media/document/event/results/final-book_1.pdf|archive-date=1 May 2019}}</ref> In 2019, she won the silver medal in the women's 76{{nbsp}}kg event at the [[2019 Asian U23 Wrestling Championship|Asian U23 Wrestling Championship]] held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.<ref name="uww_asian_u23_wrestling_championship_2019">{{Cite web|title=2019 Asian U23 Wrestling Championship|url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-03/results_03_ulaanbaatar.pdf|website=United World Wrestling|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200524110248/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-03/results_03_ulaanbaatar.pdf|archive-date=24 May 2020|access-date=24 May 2020}}</ref> In that same year, she also competed at the [[2019 Asian Wrestling Championships]] held in Xi'an, China.<ref name="asian_championships_2019">{{cite web|url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-04/results_04_xian.pdf|title=2019 Asian Wrestling Championships Results|work=United World Wrestling|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200518232029/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-04/results_04_xian.pdf|archive-date=18 May 2020}}</ref><br />
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In April 2021, she competed at the [[2021 Asian Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament|Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament]] hoping to qualify for the [[2020 Summer Olympics]] in Tokyo, Japan.<ref name="asian_olympic_qualification_tournament_2021">{{Cite web|title=2021 Asian Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament Results Book|url=https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-04/results_04_almaty_tq.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412095457/https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-04/results_04_almaty_tq.pdf|archive-date=12 April 2021|access-date=5 May 2021|website=United World Wrestling}}</ref> She did not qualify for the Olympics at this tournament. In the same month, she won the bronze medal in her event at the [[2021 Asian Wrestling Championships]] held in the same venue as the Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament.<ref name="china_follows_japan_in_withdrawing_women_2021">{{Cite news|last=Rowbottom|first=Mike|date=15 April 2021|title=China follows Japan in withdrawing women from UWW Asian Championships over COVID concerns|work=InsideTheGames.biz|url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1106646/uww-asian-championships-2021-almaty|access-date=15 April 2021}}</ref><ref name="asian_championships_2021">{{cite web|url=https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-04/results_04_almaty_champ.pdf|title=2021 Asian Wrestling Championships Results|work=United World Wrestling|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419163153/https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-04/results_04_almaty_champ.pdf|archive-date=19 April 2021|access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref> She also failed to qualify for the Olympics at the [[2021 World Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament|World Olympic Qualification Tournament]] held in Sofia, Bulgaria.<ref name="uww_world_olympic_qualification_tournament_2021">{{Cite web|title=2021 World Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament Results Book|url=https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-05/world_og_qualifier_final_book.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509161754/https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-05/world_og_qualifier_final_book.pdf|archive-date=9 May 2021|access-date=9 May 2021|website=United World Wrestling}}</ref><br />
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She won one of the bronze medals in the [[Wrestling at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Women's freestyle 76 kg|women's 76 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><br />
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== Achievements ==<br />
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{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"<br />
!Year<br />
!Tournament<br />
!Location<br />
!Result<br />
!Event<br />
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|2021<br />
|[[2021 Asian Wrestling Championships|Asian Championships]]<br />
|Almaty, Kazakhstan<br />
|align="center" bgcolor="cc9966" | 3rd<br />
|Freestyle 76 kg<br />
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|2022<br />
|[[Wrestling at the 2022 Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth Games]]<br />
|Birmingham, England<br />
|align="center" bgcolor="cc9966" | 3rd<br />
|[[Wrestling at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Women's freestyle 76 kg|Freestyle 76 kg]]<br />
|}<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{IWD}}<br />
* {{UWW|pooja-pooja}}<br />
* {{2022 Commonwealth Games profile|127376}}<br />
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[[Category:1997 births]]<br />
[[Category:Living people]]<br />
[[Category:Asian Wrestling Championships medalists]]<br />
[[Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for India]]<br />
[[Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in wrestling]]<br />
[[Category:Wrestlers at the 2022 Commonwealth Games]]<br />
[[Category:Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games]]<br />
[[Category:21st-century Indian sportswomen]]<br />
[[Category:Indian female sport wrestlers]]</div>LaverneHenry