Poonam, a world class sportsman who won India a silver medal in 15th Senior World Wushu Championship, 2019 Shanghai China, was born into a family of farmers in the small village of Soldha Tehsil Bahadurgarh, district Jhajjar Haryana. Her father, Shri Ram Phool Singh, worked as a truck driver along with farming to nurture the family due to lack of land for farming. Along with education, he used to get his son Rajesh and daughter Poonam to practice sports. Mother Mrs. Naresh Devi used to do household work along with farming and took care of her children. The difficult austerity of the parents today achieved the status that their daughter, serving the country in Sashastra Seema Bal, wins medals for the country at national and international level. Such a stunning daughter is a shining example of women empowerment.

Poonam was born on August 15,1986 in the above family of farmers. She received her initial education from the government school in the village and after that she spent much time in sports and passed her high school and senior secondary examination from the National Open School.

Poonam was interested in sports since childhood. She used to race in the morning. After that she started playing kabaddi game. Later during the sports competition at Jahanara Bagh Stadium Jhajjar, Haryana, Poonam met a distinguished young Wushu sports trainer Dr Sudesh Kumar and started playing in his supervision.

It was so difficult to get training that a small school going girl had to travel 40 kilometres from a remote village in the morning to visit Jhajjar via Bahadurgarh regularly and never cared for winter, summer and rain.

In 2001, she won the gold medal in her weight group for the first time in the Wushu game at the state level and also won the gold medal in the national championship while playing in the Haryana team. After that, this caravan continued and on the basis of hard work, in 2004 she won the first Bronze medal of her international career in the 6th Senior Asian Wushu Championship held in Myanmar Burma and despite injury she won Silver medal for Haryana in 2007 in the 33rd National Games (Assam Guwahati).

In the year 2008, Poonam was selected as the constable in the first female recruitment of SSB(Sashatra Seema Bal). Even in his training period, due to the distinguished talent and the rich work ability she received honour from the department many times and started giving her services to the Government of India, but the spirit of playing was not reduced. There was some shortage in the facilities before but after coming in the department this deficiency also started to be fulfilled.

She won Gold Medal for Haryana State at the 34th National Games Ranchi Jharkhand in 2011. In 2013 World Police Games held in Ireland, Poonam won the gold medal in the boxing game for the Indian Police and made the national anthem resonate with the flag of India.

Luck supported Poonam in full time and as per the social custom, Poonam’s family married her in the prestigious family of Kisranti village of Rohtak district, in the house of Mr. Bir Singh. Her husband Mr. Manjeet Singh is employed in the Indian Air Force. Here too, Poonam got a loving family and she started getting better family support in the sports world as well. Due to this, Poonam got encouraged and today achieved this status. Living in social, family, disciplinary life and Indian customs, gave birth to daughter Paridhi as Lakshmi in the house in 2017. Paridhi gets love and affection in the whole family. She is so engrossed with her grandmother, Mrs. Shakuntala Devi that she does not even realize that her mother is taking sports training outside. Husband and wife both perform their duties in the armed forces. They do not forget to talk to their daughter daily. This talented player is at the peak with a sour sweet experience in this difficult journey of life and recently she is taking training in the Indian team to represent India in the South Asian Games to be held in Nepal.

Her dream is to give India a gold medal in the Asian Games. We appeal to the readers to pray to the Supreme Father, the God, that this hard-working player’s dream be fulfilled.

Complete sports achievements at a glance

INTERNATIONAL LEVEL ACHIEVEMENTS

Sl No.	Tournament	Date/Year	Venue	Position	Game
1.	15^th WUSHU World Championship	17-10-2019 to 23-10-2019	Sanghai (China)	Silver	WUSHU
2.	World Police Games	01-10 Aug 2013	Northern Ireland	Gold	Boxing
3.	6^th Asian Championship	2004	Myanmar	Bronze	Wushu

National Games Achievements

Sl No.	Tournament	Year	Venue	Position
1.	33^rd National Games	2007	Guhwati	Silver
2.	34^th National Games	2011	Jharkhand	Gold

National Championship Achievements

Sl No.	Tournament	Year	Venue	Position
1.	12^th Senior National Wushu Championship	2003	Chennai	Gold
2.	13^th Senior National Wushu Championship	2004	Jharkhand	Gold
3.	14^th Senior National Wushu Championship	2005	Lucknow	Silver
4.	15^th Senior National Wushu Championship	2006	Jaipur	Gold
5.	16^th Senior National Wushu Championship	2008	Meeruth	Silver
6.	17^th Senior National Wushu Championship	2009	Maharasthra	Gold
7.	19^th Senior National Wushu Championship	2011	Haridwar	Gold
8.	20^th Senior National Wushu Championship	2012	Jammu	Bronze
9.	1^st Federation Cup	2012	Rohtak	Gold
10.	21^st Senior National Wushu Championship	2013	Kolkatta	Silver
11.	22^ndSenior National Wushu Championship	2014	Jaipur	Silver
12.	23^rd Senior National Wushu Championship	2014	Patna	Gold
13.	24^th Senior National Wushu Championship	2015	Chandigarh	Gold
14	27^th Senior National Wushu Championship	2018	Shillong	Gold
15.	13^th Senior Women National Boxing Championship	2012	Guwahati	Bronze
16.	14^th Senior Women National Boxing Championship	2013	Khatima	Bronze
17.	15^th Senior Women National Boxing Championship	2014	Raipur	Bronze

All India Police Championship Achivements

Sl No.	Tournament	Year	Venue	Position
1.	61^st All India Police Boxing Championship	2012	New Delhi	Gold
2.	62^st All India Police Boxing Championship	2013	Ranchi	Gold
3.	64^st All India Police Boxing Championship	2014	Karnal	Silver
4.	2^nd All India Police Judo Cluster (Wushu)	2018	Delhi	Gold
5.	2^nd All India Police Judo Cluster (Wushu)	2018	Cuttack	Gold