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Arjuna awardee wrestler Pooja Dhanda has tied the nuptial knot with the wedding ceremonial held astatine a backstage edifice successful Hisar. Pooja, a nonmigratory of Sunder Nagar successful Hisar, joined Abhishek Boora, a businessman from Ghirai colony successful the district, connected Thursday (November 13, 2025).
A bronze medallist successful the 57kg class astatine the 2018 World Championships successful Budapest, Pooja besides won metallic astatine the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics and the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, too a bronze astatine the 2014 Asian Wrestling Championships.
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She is presently employed arsenic a elder wrestling manager with the Haryana Sports Department astatine Mahavir Stadium, Hisar. Her father, Ajmer Dhanda, retired from the Haryana Animal Husbandry Centre successful Hisar.
Pooja said she volition proceed to beryllium actively progressive successful wrestling aft marriage, focusing connected coaching and nurturing young athletes to assistance them triumph medals astatine aboriginal Olympics. Many sportspersons, politicians, and officials attended the ceremony.
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Born successful Budana colony successful Hisar district, Pooja began her sporting travel successful judo astatine Mahavir Stadium earlier switching to wrestling successful 2009. Despite winning respective planetary medals successful judo, she was advised by erstwhile Indian wrestler and manager Kripashankar Bishnoi to instrumentality up wrestling arsenic a career.
