Kiran Bishnoi, also known as Kiran Godara, is a

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from India. She was a bronze medalist at the

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. She has also been gold medallist at the

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s in 2017. She won a bronze medal at the

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Early life and career

Bishnoi, who is also known as Kiran Godara, was born to Kuldeep Godara and Sunita Godara in Rawat Khera village of

Hisar district Hisar district is one of the 22 districts of Haryana, India. Hisar city serves as the district headquarters. Hisar district has four sub-divisions that is, Hisar, Barwala, Hansi and Narnaud, each headed by an SDM. The district is also part of H ...

Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land ar ...

. She spent her childhood at her maternal grandparents' home in Kalirawan village of Hisar district. Her maternal grandfather Ramswaroop Khichad Kalirawna was a wrestler, and he used to take her with him for wrestling practice. This led to development of her interest in the sport. After the death of her grandfather in 2010, she returned to her parental home in Hisar, and started practicing wrestling at

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under the guidance of her coach Vishnu. She missed the trials of

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due to a career-threatening knee injury. After eventually recovering from the injury, she became national champion in 2015. She also won

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title in 2016, and was finalist of the event in 2015. Bishnoi won gold medal at the 2017 Commonwealth Wrestling Championships in

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. At the

, after losing the semifinal by technical fall to Nigeria's Blessing Onyebuchi in the 76 kg category, Bishnoi won the bronze medal bout by technical fall win over Mauritius' Katouskia Pariadhaven. In 2021, she lost her bronze medal match in the women's 76kg event at the World Wrestling Championships held in Oslo, Norway. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 76kg event at the

held in Hangzhou, China.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bishnoi, Kiran Living people Indian female sport wrestlers Female sport wrestlers from Haryana People from Hisar district Commonwealth Games medallists in wrestling Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for India Wrestlers at the 2018 Asian Games Wrestlers at the 2022 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in wrestling Asian Games bronze medalists for India Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games Year of birth missing (living people) Wrestlers at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games