India's Pooja wins gold in women's high jump at Asian Athletics Championships 2025

Pooja also rewrote the U20 national record in the event with her best jump.

Pooja won the gold medal in the women’s high jump event at the Asian Athletics Championships 2025 in Gumi, Republic of Korea, on Friday, May 30. The 18-year-old was the only athlete to clear the 1.89m mark in the final. In pursuit of the gold medal, she broke her own Under-20 national record in the high jump event.

Pooja tried her best at jumping over the 1.92m mark but failed. Had she cleared the mark, the 18-year-old high jumper would have equalled the current national record held by Sahana Kumari, was set in 2012.

Pooja, the daughter of a mason, etched her name in the history books as she became the second athlete to win the gold medal in the women’s high jump event at the Asian Athletics Championships.

Kerala’s Bobby Aloysius was the first Indian woman to win gold in the high jump at the Asian Athletics Championships. She achieved the feat with a 1.83m jump in the 2000 edition of the competition in Jakarta, Indonesia. The now 50-year-old athlete also won a silver medal in the 2002 edition.

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A total of 14 players competed in the women’s high jump final at the Asian Athletics Championships 2025 in Gumi. Uzbekistan’s Safina Sadullaeva and Kazakhstan’s Yelizaveta Matveyeva jointly bagged the silver medal, clearing the 1.86m mark.

Asian Athletics Championships 2025: Women’s High Jump Final Results

• Pooja (India) – 1.89m
• Safina Sadullaeva (Uzbekistan) – 1.86m
• Yuliya Nesterenko (Kazakhstan) – 1.86m
• Nadezhda Dubovitskaya (Kazakhstan) – 1.83m
• Baranokhon Suyfieva (Uzbekistan) – 1.83m
• Daniela Neroiu (Kazakhstan) – 1.83m
• Shieriai Tsuda (Japan) – 1.83m
• Nagisa Takahashi (Japan) – 1.80m
• Wai Yin Chung (Hong Kong) – 1.75m
• Bùi Thị Kim Anh (Vietnam) – 1.75m
• Ching Lam Priscilla Cheung (Hong Kong) – 1.75m
• Saeyoung Jung (South Korea) – 1.75m
• Thitlada Thorprathumvinit (Thailand) – 1.70m
• Noor Binti Akhtar (Malaysia) – 1.70m

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