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{{MedalSilver|[[2021 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships|2021 Tashkent]]|76 kg}}
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| updated = 27 July 2014
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'''Punam Yadav''' (9 July 1995) is an [[India]]n [[Weightlifting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games|weightlifter]] who  won Bronze medal in the [[Weightlifting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's 63&nbsp;kg|women's 63&nbsp;kg]] weight class at the [[Weightlifting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games|2014 Commonwealth Games]] at Glasgow, where the gold medal was won by [[Olauwatoyin Adesanmi]] of [[Nigeria]]<ref name="glasgow2014">{{cite web|url=http://results.glasgow2014.com/event/weightlifting/wlw063a01/womens_63kg_group_a.html|title=Glasgow 2014 - Women's 63kg Group A|publisher=results.glasgow2014.com|accessdate=2014-07-29}}</ref> She also won a gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games held in Gold Coast, Australia.
'''Punam Yadav''' (9 July 1995) is an Indian [[Weightlifting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games|weightlifter]] who  won Bronze medal in the [[Weightlifting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's 63&nbsp;kg|women's 63&nbsp;kg]] weight class at the [[Weightlifting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games|2014 Commonwealth Games]] at Glasgow, where the gold medal was won by [[Olauwatoyin Adesanmi]] of [[Nigeria]].<ref name="glasgow2014">{{cite web|url=http://results.glasgow2014.com/event/weightlifting/wlw063a01/womens_63kg_group_a.html|title=Glasgow 2014 - Women's 63kg Group A|publisher=results.glasgow2014.com|accessdate=2014-07-29}}</ref> She also won a gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games held in Gold Coast, Australia.


==Early life==
==Early life==
The daughter of a small farmer Punam grew up lending a helping hand to her parents in a Benaras village. After three years of intense training to become an international weightlifter, when Punam finally got a chance to represent India at the [[2014 Commonwealth Games]], her parents lacked the fund to support her. So her father sold their family buffalo to fund Punam’s trip.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2018-04-10|title=Her Farmer Father Sold Their Buffalo So Punam Yadav Could Win Gold For India|url=https://www.thebetterindia.com/137328/cwg-2018-gold-punam-yadav/}}</ref> With her devotion and extreme efforts reached the height of success in such state like uttar pradesh where sports as a carrier is imissible in this scenario being a girl of obc taking a carrier as future aspect was very much challenging.  
The daughter of a small farmer Punam grew up lending a helping hand to her parents in a Benaras village. After three years of intense training to become an international weightlifter, when Punam finally got a chance to represent India at the [[2014 Commonwealth Games]], her parents lacked the fund to support her. So her father sold their family buffalo to fund Punam’s trip.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2018-04-10|title=Her Farmer Father Sold Their Buffalo So Punam Yadav Could Win Gold For India|url=https://www.thebetterindia.com/137328/cwg-2018-gold-punam-yadav/}}</ref> With her devotion and extreme efforts reached the height of success in such state like uttar pradesh where sports as a carrier is imissible in this scenario being a girl of obc taking a carrier as future aspect was very much challenging.  
She also joined BHU KASHI VIDHYA PEETH for her under  graduate courses.
She also joined BHU KASHI VIDHYA PEETH for her under  graduate courses.
== Yash Bharti Award ==
Punam was given Yash Bharati award by [[Government of Uttar Pradesh]] in 2015 for weightlifting.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jagran.com/uttar-pradesh/lucknow-city-12063610.html|title=यश भारती सम्मान से 56 हस्तियां अलंकृत 12063610|publisher=jagran.com|language=hi}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
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[[Category:Asian Games competitors for India]]
[[Category:Asian Games competitors for India]]




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