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KIUG 2025: Buoyed by breaking the meet record, Pooja sets sights on 2026 Asian Games

Jaipur, Dec 3(UNI) Reigning Asian champion high jumper Pooja underlined the Khelo India University Games (KIUG) 2025 as the perfect springboard for her return to competition, breaking the Meet Record with a 1.77 m effort to clinch gold in her maiden appearance. Competing at Jaipur's Sawai Mansingh Stadium, the 18-year-old looked assured in her first outing after an ankle injury kept her out for nearly five months, using the event to recalibrate before shifting her attention to the far bigger target, the 2026 Asian Games.
Earlier this year, the 18-year-old had scripted history by becoming only the second Indian woman after Bobby Aloysius to win the Asian Championship high jump gold, scaling a personal best of 1.89 metres. Born to a mason in Boston village in Haryana's Fatehabad district, Pooja had been recovering from the injury she sustained during training, a setback that forced her out of action for nearly five months and halted her momentum after a breakthrough 2024-25.
Once the KIUG dates were finalised, Pooja saw the event as an ideal platform to assess where she stood physically and mentally. Representing Lovely Professional University (LPU), she entered the competition intending to challenge her personal best. Though she fell short of the 1.89m mark, she was satisfied with her effort, which comfortably broke the existing KIUG record.
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