{"id":172693,"date":"2025-06-04T14:20:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T08:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=172693"},"modified":"2025-06-04T14:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T08:50:49","slug":"seema-antil-indian-discus-thrower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/seema-antil-indian-discus-thrower\/","title":{"rendered":"Seema Antil: Indian discus thrower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Seema Punia is a well-known Indian champion discus thrower who has continually delivered top-end performances internationally. &nbsp;Born in July 27, 1983, in village Khewda, Sonipat District, Haryana, Seema started her journey on the athletics circuit as a hurdler and long jumper, shifting disciplines to discus throw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>____________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notable Achievements<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>World Junior Championships: Originally won gold in 2000, but she was later disqualified after a positive finding for pseudoephedrine. She rebounded well and won a bronze in 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Commonwealth Games<\/strong>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2006 (Melbourne)<\/strong>: Silver medal.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2010 (Delhi)<\/strong>: Bronze medal.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2014 (Glasgow)<\/strong>: Silver medal.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2018 (Gold Coast)<\/strong>: Silver medal. \u200b<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Asian Games<\/strong>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2014 (Incheon)<\/strong>: Gold medal.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2018 (Jakarta)<\/strong>: Bronze medal.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2023 (Hangzhou)<\/strong>: Bronze medal. \u200b<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Olympic Appearances<\/strong>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2004 (Athens)<\/strong>: 14th place.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2012 (London)<\/strong>: 12th place.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2016 (Rio de Janeiro)<\/strong>: 20th place.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2020 (Tokyo)<\/strong>: 16th place. \u200b<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Personal Best<\/strong>: Achieved a throw of 64.84 meters in Kyiv in 2004. \u200b<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Personal Life<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seema is married to Ankush Punia, a former Indian discus thrower who competed for India at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>____________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Awards:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next time Seema Punia crossed the 60m barrier was at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. The effort fetched her a silver medal, her first medal at the Commonwealth event. She was later conferred with Bhim Award by Haryana&#8217;s state government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seema Punia is a well-known Indian champion discus thrower who has continually delivered top-end performances internationally. &nbsp;Born in July 27, 1983, in village Khewda, Sonipat District, Haryana, Seema started her journey on the athletics circuit as a hurdler and long jumper, shifting disciplines to discus throw. ____________________________________________________ Notable Achievements World Junior Championships: Originally won gold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":172694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5369],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-awareness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172695,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172693\/revisions\/172695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}