Krishna Poonia
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| Born |
5 May 1977 Agroha, Haryana, India |
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) |
| Weight | 79 kg (174 lb; 12.4 st) (2013–present) |
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| Country |
 India
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| Sport | Athletics |
| Event(s) | Discus |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | 64.76 m (Wailuku 2012) |
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Krishna Poonia (born 5 May 1976) is an Indian discus thrower. She led an Indian clean sweep in the women's discus final on 11 October 2010, winning the Delhi Commonwealth Games gold medal with a throw of 61.51 metres. The Government of India awarded her the civilian honour of Padma Shri in 2011.
Krishna Poonia was born on 5 May 1976 to a Jat family in Haryana's Agroha village, which lies in the Hisar district. She married Virender Singh Poonia of Gagarwas village in Churu district in Rajasthan in 2000. The couple work for Indian Railways and live in Jaipur. Virender Singh is a former athlete who coached Krishna after marriage. Krishna studied sociology in Kanodia Girls College in Jaipur.
She won bronze medal in 2006 Doha Asian Games. Krishna Poonia threw the discus to 61.53, her personal best, in the second try and finished behind Aimin Sing of China (63.52) and Ma Xuenjun, also of China (62.43). Krishna Poonia had won gold medal in the 46th Open National athletics championships to nose ahead of favourites Seema Antil and Harwant Kaur while registering a career-best 60.10 metres distance.
She contested at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but failed to reach the finals, after finishing 10th in the qualifiers with a throw of 58.23.
On 8 May 2012, she bettered her personal best with a throw of 64.76 meters in Hawaii, US, which is the new national record.
Discus thrower Krishna Poonia is the first Indian woman athlete to win the Gold Medal in Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi. Poonia led the historic clean sweep of the discus event by clearing 61.5 meters. She is the first Indian woman to win a gold medal in track and field events of Commonwealth games and the first Indian to win a gold medal in such events after Milkha Singh who had won the gold in Men's 440 yards race in the 1958 Cardiff Commonwealth Games
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