Harshada Garud

Harshada Garud is a weightlifter from Maharashtra, India. Winning a gold in 2022 Junior World Weightlifting Championships, she became the first Indian to win a gold medal in International Weightlifting Federation's World Juniors Weightlifting Championships.

Harshada Garud
Personal information
Full nameHarshada Sharad Garud
Born (2003-11-08) 8 November 2003
Maharashtra, India
Sport
CountryIndia
SportWeightlifting
Medal record
Asian Championships
2022 Manama45 kg
World Junior Championships
2022 Heraklion45 kg
Asian Junior Championships
2022 Tashkent45 kg
2020 Tashkent45 kg

Biography

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

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
  1. Ansari, Aarish (5 May 2022). "From lifting rice sacks to a world championship gold - Harshada Garud's amazing story". Retrieved 8 October 2022.
  2. "Junior Women's Medalists" (PDF).
  3. "Living her father's dream, Harshada Garud becomes first junior world champ from India in weightlifting". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  4. Kotian, Harish. "Weightlifter Harshada India's first Jr World Champion". Rediff. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  5. 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.
  6. "India's Harshada wins historic junior world weightlifting gold". Hindustan Times. 2 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
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