Punam Yadav (born 9 July 1995) is an Indian

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who won Bronze medal in the women's 63 kg weight class at the

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at Glasgow, where the gold medal was won by Olauwatoyin Adesanmi of

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. She also won a gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games held in Gold Coast, Australia.

Early life

The daughter of a small farmer Punam grew up lending a helping hand to her parents in a Benaras village. After three years of intense training to become an international weightlifter, when Punam finally got a chance to represent India at the

, her parents lacked the fund to support her. So her father sold their family buffalo to fund Punam’s trip. With her devotion and extreme efforts reached the height of success in such state like uttar pradesh where sports as a carrier is imissible in this scenario being a girl of obc taking a carrier as future aspect was very much challenging. She also joined Bhu Kashi Vidhya Peeth for her under graduate courses.

Yash Bharti Award

Punam was given Yash Bharati award by

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in 2015 for weightlifting.

Career

She won the gold medal by lifting a total of 222 kg: 100 kg in Snatch and 122 kg in Clean and jerk in

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in women's 69 kg division. She had won bronze medal in

by lifting a total weight of 202 kg, 88 kg in snatch and 114 kg in

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. She went for undergraduate course at varanasi kashi vidhya peeth.

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