Pooja Sahasrabudhe

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Pooja Sahasrabudhe
Nickname(s)Poo
NationalityIndian
Born (1991-09-13) 13 September 1991 (age 33)
Thane, India
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Table tennis career
Playing style Right-handed ShakeHand Grip
ClubBoosters TT Club, Radiant Sports Academy
Medal record
Women's table tennis
Representing Flag of India.svg  India
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Gold Coast Women's team
South Asian Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 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

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