Poulomi Ghatak (

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: পৌলমী ঘটক; born 3 January 1983) is a table tennis player from West Bengal, India. She won three junior national championships (1996, 1998 and 1999) as well as seven senior national championships between 1998 and 2016. In 1998 she won both the senior national and junior national championships. Poulomi has represented India at the Commonwealth Games at Melbourne in 2006 and the Commonwealth Championships between 2000 and 2008. She played at the Sydney Olympics when she was 16. She also played in the Indian Open finals in 2007. She started playing in 1992 and thereafter went on a successful upward learning curve. Poulomi is ranked #22 amongst women players in India as per the 2018 rankings of the

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Personal life

Poulomi Ghatak was born on 3 January 1983 in

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. She is daughter of Shubhash Chandra Ghatak, who has been a constant support all throughout her life. She has a knack for

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besides playing Table Tennis. She started her

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career at the age of 9. Poulomi studied at the

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, and later at the

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, of the

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.History of the College
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, she married Soumyadeep Roy, professional table tennis player.

Career

She started her table tennis career in 1992 when she was nine years old. She practised regularly at

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Baisakhi Sangha. She participated in the Olympic Games at the age of 16. She played various matches with

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and

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. She was ranked Top 2 among the female senior table tennis player. She represented India in the Asian Table Tennis Championship,

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; in Russia Open; Toyota Cup at

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;

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and Polish Open; 15th Asian Games at Doha and Chile Open in 2006. In 2007, she played at World Table Tennis Championship at Croasia; Golden Racket Championship,

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and International Open Tournament in

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. In the same year she also represented the country in

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and German Open. She was silver medalist in Common Wealth Games 2010. She had also made to the Table Tennis Quarterfinals in Asian Games 2012. She was also among the probables for Olympics 2012. Recently, in 2014 she also played in

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along with Ankita Das against Pakistan and made the victory. In the same event she also played mixed doubles with Sharath Kamal but could not make it. Her achievements for her talents are immense. She has three Junior National Championship and five Senior National Championship between 1998-2007 to her name. Currently, Poulomi works in Bharat Petroleum as the Assistant Manager, Sports; she represents the PSPB.

Achievements and Honors

* Commonwealth 2006 (Bronze) * Women's Team, SAF Games, 2006 (Gold) * Women's Doubles, SAF Games, 2006 (Gold) * Women's Doubles, US Open, 2006 (Silver) * Commonwealth Championship, 2007 (Bronze) * National Championship, 2005 (Bronze) * National Championships, 2006 (Gold) * Women Singles, National Championship, 2006 (Silver) * National Championship, 2007 (Gold) * Women Singles, National Championships, 2007 (Gold) * Commonwealth 2010 (Silver)

References

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TTFI Profile

Interview: Mixed Doubles The Telegraph, Kolkata
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