Gururaja Poojary: A medal-hungry weightlifter

Here is how inadequate infrastructure facilities made Gururaja Poojary a medal-hungry weightlifter

Featured By Ajay Tomar November 3, 2022 Read the article

Gururaja Poojary, a weightlifter from Vandse village in Karnataka’s Udupi district, won a bronze in the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

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“I come from a poor family. Sports helped me get a complete fee waiver in college”, Poojary, who started his sports journey with wrestling, said.

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He shifted from wrestling to weightlifting as his college had no facilities for wrestling, not even a mat. Weightlifting had good facilities and a practice regime.

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Karnam Malleswari was the first Indian weightlifter to win an Olympic medal. Her medal was the only medal India won in Sydney, 2000.

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The South Indian states, however, failed to capitalise on the hype Malleswari’s win had created and there is still a lack of adequate facilities.

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Poojary joined Indian Air Force in 2015. He is now a Junior Warrant Officer at the Air Force station in Chandigarh.

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Poojary has now his eyes locked on the gold at the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games scheduled for September and October.

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