Pooja Sahasrabudhe

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Pooja Sahasrabudhe
Nickname(s)Poo
Nationality India
Born (1991-09-13) 13 September 1991 (age 32)
Thane, India
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Table tennis career
Playing styleRight-handed ShakeHand Grip
ClubBoosters TT Club, Radiant Sports Academy
Medal record
Women's table tennis
Representing  India
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Gold Coast Women's team
South Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2016 Guwahati/Shillong Women's doubles

Pooja Sahasrabudhe is an Indian International Table tennis player from Thane, Maharashtra.[1] She comes from a humble middle-class background, and was born and brought up in Thane, Maharashtra. She took to Table tennis at the age of 9 in the year 2000 and showed keen interest and great talent in the sport. Her coach Mrs. Shailaja Gohad at the Boosters TT Academy,[2] was quick to notice this and it was under her guidance that Pooja groomed as a player. She started representing India at a very young age. Pooja did her schooling and graduation from Thane and was absorbed by ONGC in the year 2010. Pooja recently got married and moved to Pune, India where she continues to train under the guidance of Mr. Rohit Chaudhary - a Shiv Chatrapatee Awardee and her husband Mr. Aniket Koparkar - an ex-international himself.

She has won the Singles National Championship in the U-17 [3] and U-21 [4] events and as of February 2016 she is ranked no.3 in India[5] in the Women's Singles Category and is currently a member of the Indian National Women's Table Tennis Team [6]

Career highlights

References

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  11. ^ Karhadkar, Amol (14 January 2016). "Sahasrabuddhe: Reason to be proud". The Hindu.
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  14. ^ "10-member squad leaves for Asian Championships | More sports News - Times of India". The Times of India. 25 September 2015.
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  21. ^ "Asian Games, Asian Games2022, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League 2022, UEFA, India Olympics medals, Mirabai chanu, silver medal,India tour of Sri Lanka, India tour of Sri Lanka 2021, olympic games tokyo,olympic games tokyo 2020,India tour of England, India tour of England 2021".
  22. ^ "Manika Batra leads India to historic women Table Tennis gold at Commonwealth Games". The Economic Times. 8 April 2018. Retrieved 8 April 2018.