CWG 2022: Father truck driver, Air Force officer son Gururaja Pujari created history, won bronze medal in Commonwealth Games

More than 200 athletes from India are participating in the Birmingham Commonwealth Games. PV Sindhu led the country by holding the India flag in the opening ceremony of this great sport. During this, only one thought was going on in the hearts of all the athletes that they should bring glory to the country by winning medals. In the same crowd of players, short stature weightlifter Gururaja Pujari also put a bronze medal in India’s bag on the second day of CWG. He secured the medal by lifting 151 kg in his third attempt of clean and jerk. This weight was three kilos more than his personal record of lifting 148.

Gururaja Pujari, a resident of Kendrapara, Odisha, comes from a very poor family. His father works as a truck driver. Gururaja has already won silver medal in the 2018 Commonwealth Games. In the last Commonwealth Games, 29-year-old Gururaja lifted 249 kg in the 56 kg weight category.

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The story of Gururaja is a film

The story of Gururaja Pujari, who won a medal in the Commonwealth Games for the country, is no less than a film. In the year 2008 Olympics, when Gururaja saw Sushil Kumar’s medal around his neck, he decided that he would make a career in wrestling. For this, he started going to the arena but his school teacher gave him a salad, he tried his hand in weightlifting instead of wrestling.

Following the advice of the teacher, he threw himself into weightlifting, but during this time he faced many challenges. His father Mahabala Pujari did not have enough money to give him a good diet. His father also used to hear a lot from outside people about when he would continue to do all this for his son.

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job in air force

Gururaja slowly started earning a lot of name in weightlifting. During this, whatever prize he won, he went on spending on his own diet. In such a situation, he tried to join the army in search of a job, but due to his small stature, he did not get a chance there. In such a situation, he got frustrated but he got information from someone that there is a concession regarding height in the air force. What was then, he joined the Air Force.

Since then he has not looked back and has been bringing laurels to the country in weightlifting.