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| Full name | Harshada Sharad Garud | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 November 2003 Maharashtra, India | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | India | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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.
Biography[edit | edit source]
Harshada Garud is born on 8 November 2003, at Vadgaon Maval near Pune, Maharashtra.[1][2] Harshada's father Sharad Garud, is also a weightlifter, who had won weightlifting silver at state school games.[3] She is studying B.A. at Savitribai Phule Pune University.[4]
Weightlifting career[edit | edit source]
In 2022, Harshada Garud won gold medal in the World junior weightlifting championships held at Heraklion, Greece.[5] She is the first Indian to win a gold medal in World Juniors Weightlifting Championships.[5] 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.[6] She also won third rank in 45 kg junior woman category, in IWLF Youth, Junior & Senior National Weightlifting Championships 2021-22 held at Bhubaneswar, Odisha.[2]
References[edit | edit source]
- ā Ansari, Aarish (5 May 2022). "From lifting rice sacks to a world championship gold - Harshada Garud's amazing story". Retrieved 8 October 2022.
- ā 2.0 2.1 "Junior Women's Medalists" (PDF).
- ā "Living her father's dream, Harshada Garud becomes first junior world champ from India in weightlifting". The New Indian Express. 2 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ā Kotian, Harish. "Weightlifter Harshada India's first Jr World Champion". Rediff. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ā 5.0 5.1 Sarangi, Y. B. (2 May 2022). "Harshada Garud wins world junior weightlifting championships gold, India's first in the event". Sportstar. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ā "India's Harshada wins historic junior world weightlifting gold". Hindustan Times. 2 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.