Poonam Khatri
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| Nationality | Indian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Poonam Kajla 15 August 1986 (age 39) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Wushu player, Boxer and Police officer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Employer | Sashastra Seema Bal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 75 Kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Poonam Khatri is an Indian Wushu player, martial artist and athlete. She won a gold medal in invitational sports of Wushu at the 13th South Asian Games at Lalitpur in Nepal, in Women's Sanda 75 kg.[1] Khatri won the gold medal at the 2019 World Wushu Championships in Shanghai, China in the Women's Sanda 75 kg category.[2][3]
She was born in Soldha village of Jhajjar district in Haryana, India. She took to sports in her childhood. In an interview with The Hindu's Sportstar magazine, Khatri said, "As a school kid, I used to play Kabaddi and Kho Kho."[4] Poonam began practicing the martial art Wushu when she was 15 years old.[4]
In 2008, she received a job through sports quota in the Sashastra Seema Bal, one of the Central Armed Police Forces in India,[5] where she is currently posted as an Assistant sub-inspector of police.[2]
