| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |  Indian |
| Born | 21 February 2007 Haryana, India |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Track and field |
| Event | High jump |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best | 1.89 m NU20R (2025) |
Pooja Singh (born 21 February 2007) is an Indian track and field athlete specializing in the high jump event. She is the current Asian champion, having won the gold medal at the 2025 Asian Championships. [1]
Pooja hails from Bosti village, Fatehabad district in Haryana. Her father Hansraj is a construction worker. [2] Coach Balwan Singh Patra spotted Pooja while during a yoga session and was impressed with her yoga postures, charasana and dhanurasana (yoga forms) and recruited her and started training her as a high jumper. [3]
Pooja started her jumps under coach Balwan Singh at a small facility at Para Sports Academy which had no landing mats. But soon she won the gold in the under 14 category with a jump of 1.41m. [4] Though an injury kept her out of action for about 15 months, she made a winning return at the 2022 Junior Nationals where she won the high jump gold with a National record of 1.76m. In the same year, later she claimed the gold in the 2022 Youth under 18 Youth National Championships. [4]
In April 2023, she won a gold at the 2023 Asian U18 Athletics Championships in Tashkent. [3] In June 2023, she won a silver medal at the 2023 20th Asian U20 Athletics Championships in Yecheon, South Korea. [5] In July 2023, she took part in the Asian Athletics Championships, Supachalasai National Stadium, Bangkok. She finished seventh with a jump of 1.75m. In August 2023, she also won a bronze at the Seventh Commonwealth Youth Games in Trinidad & Tobago. [6] [7]
In August 2024, she finished second in the high jump event of the qualification round at the World Athletics Under 20 Championships at Lima. She jumped 1.83m which is an Indian National Under 20 record. [4] In December 2024, she jumped 1.85m in the under 18 Girls heptathlon event at the 39th National Junior Athletics Championship at Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar. [8]
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Representing India | |||||
| 2023 | Asian U18 Championships | Tashkent, Uzbekistan | 1st | High jump | 1.77 m |
| Asian U20 Championships | Yecheon, South Korea | 2nd | High jump | 1.82 m | |
| Asian Championships | Bangkok, Thailand | 7th | High jump | 1.75 m | |
| Asian Games | Hangzhou, China | 6th | High jump | 1.80 m | |
| 2025 | Asian Championships | Gumi, South Korea | 1st | High jump | 1.89 m |
| Year | Date | Location | Performance | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 15 November | Guwahati, India | 1.76 m | |
| 2023 | 6 June | Yecheon, South Korea | 1.82 m | |
| 2024 | 9 December | Bhubaneshwar, India | 1.85 m | |
| 2025 | 30 May | Gumi, South Korea | 1.89 m | PB, NU20R |
