Archive · 11 Aug 2026
Pooja's seventh place caps India's U20 Worlds with three medals
Pooja Singh is a very good high jumper from India.
She jumps over a bar that is placed very high.
Pooja is only 19 years old and holds India's senior record for women's high jump.
At a big world competition for young athletes in Eugene, USA, everyone expected her to win a medal.
But Pooja did not jump as high as she usually does.
She cleared 1.84 metres, much lower than her best of 1.93 metres.
She tried three times to clear 1.87 metres but could not.
She finished in seventh place.
A jumper from Australia won the gold medal.
Even though Pooja did not win a medal, India still went home with three medals from the whole competition.
Pooja Singh finished seventh in the women's high jump final at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Eugene.
The 19-year-old cleared only 1.84m, well below her senior national record of 1.93m, and failed on all three attempts at 1.87m.
Izobelle Louison-Roe of Australia won gold with 1.92m, ahead of silver medallist Lilianna Batori (Hungary) and bronze medallist Aitana Alonso (Spain), who both cleared 1.90m.
India concluded the championships with three medals in total.
The Indian women's 4x400m relay team finished ninth and last in the final, clocking 3 minutes 45.28 seconds.
- Who
- Pooja Singh, the 19-year-old Indian national senior record holder in high jump, and the Indian women's 4x400m relay team.
- What
- Pooja finished seventh in the high jump final as India ended the World Athletics U20 Championships campaign with three medals.
- When
- The exact date is not stated in the article; the championships took place after May, when Pooja won the Asian U20 title.
- Where
- Eugene, USA, the venue of the World Athletics U20 Championships.
- Why
- Pooja cleared only 1.84m, well below her 1.93m national record, and failed to clear 1.87m in three attempts, while the medal-winning jumps were higher.
- Event
- World Athletics U20 Championships
- Venue
- Eugene, USA
- Pooja Singh's final result
- 7th place, clearing 1.84m
- Pooja Singh's senior national record
- 1.93m
- Gold medallist
- Izobelle Louison-Roe (Australia), 1.92m
- Silver and bronze medallists
- Lilianna Batori (Hungary) and Aitana Alonso (Spain), both 1.90m
- India's overall medal tally
- 3 medals
- Women's 4x400m relay result
- 9th place, 3:45.28