only the fourth Indian woman wins medal

Do you know the fourth indian medal winers ,she is Pooja Dhanda .why not to know how she win the medal ,please follow this passage .

Pooja Dhanda remembers getting lost in thought, as she stood on the podium at the Budapest Sports Arena. She had just been presented the bronze medal in women’s freestyle 57kg category at the World Wrestling Championships in October. That’s when she allowed her imagination to wander. “When I was on the victory stand, I started to imagine myself doing the same thing at the 2020 Olympics with a medal of a better colour,” she says. “My mind was focused on the Olympics because I got through such a tough draw (at the Worlds) with a medal. Yeh kiya, toh Olympic medal utna bhi door nahin. Medal nikaal ke la sakte hai.”The 24-year-old exudes confidence after becoming only the fourth Indian woman grappler to win a bronze at the World Championship. Indeed, her pool for the competition in Budapest included a host of Olympic and World Championship medallists. But Dhanda had done her homework. Armed with a stronger leg-defence technique, she was bound to pull off a few upsets. “After the Asian Games, my leg defence was a weakness that had been exposed,” she says, “I lost most of my points because of that. So my preparation for the World Championship was mostly on countering leg attacks.”

“It was a massive help especially when I had to train during the winters,” she recalls. “Practice was at five in the morning, my father would drive me and I’d sit in the back with two quilts and the heater turned on.” Her rise since returning from injury was marked by an unexpected win against Olympic champion Helen Maroulis in the Pro Wrestling League this year, and she went on to beat Geeta Phogat in the trials for the Commonwealth Games.With her triumph in Budapest, Dhanda has confirmed herself as one of the country’s most prominent wrestlers. And her sights are now set on completing the triple — medals at the Youth Olympics, World Championships and the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.“That’s the least I’m expecting from myself now,” she adds.