Gururaja Poojary (born 15 August 1992), also remarked as P. Gururaja is an Indian weightlifter who won the palm within the men’s 56 kg weight class at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and also the medal in the 61 kg weight class at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Early Life and Education:

In the men’s 56kg weight division, the weightlifter also took home a laurel wreath at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. Poojari is from the village of Vande within the Karnataka province of Udupi. His father drives trucks. His five brothers count. He first attempted wrestling before being encouraged to need up weightlifting by Rajendra Prasad, a watchful coach at SDM College in Ujire. Poojary successfully achieved a combined lift of 269kg, (118kg in snatch and 151kg in clean and jerk) to create sure India’s second medal of the Games. After some of the fellow weightlifters, Sanket Mahadev Sargar opened India’s medal account at the CWG in the year 2022 clinching a silver.  Gururaja Poojary made it two out of two for India in weightlifting. Where he won a bronze medal in the men’s 61kg final at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022 on the last week of  Saturday.

Achievements and Career:

Gururaja won a medallion at the Commonwealth Championship in Australia in 2017. Gururaja, who started weightlifting in 2010. He had achieved a personal better of 249 kg (108+141) in Penang in 2016 to win gold in the Commonwealth senior weightlifting tournament. Before moving to weightlifting and subsequently powerlifting, he had been a wrestler. Poojary was unsuccessful in his final snatch attempt. But he quite made up for it together with his performance in clean and jerk. He needed to repeat one of his personal best to be in contention for the prize. Where Poojary did exactly that. This final attempt of poojary meant that he had to successfully lift 151. The fight between the gold and silver medal was between Bidin and Baru. But Poojary had secured India’s second medal of the year 2022 in the commonwealth games.