FULL NAME: Bablu Munda
GENDER: Male
DATE OF BIRTH: Not known
PARENTS: Father (), Mother ()
HOME ADDRESS: Village- Sialijoda, Gram Panchayat- Deojhar, Block- Joda, District- Keonjhar, Odisha, India.
ACADEMIC EDUCATION: Studied at Barbil Municipal High School AND Government Nodal School, Barbil.
HOME CLUB/ACADEMY: Not known
RECEIVED COACHING FROM: Pankaj Kumar Mahanta
TEAMS/UNITS REPRESENTED: Keonjhar, Odisha, India

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:

STATE:
*     Bagged Silver medal at the 16th State Kick-boxing Championships in Bhubaneswar in 2011.

NATIONAL:
*     Won the Gold medal in -48 kg youth boys category of the 22nd Junior National Wushu Championship, held at Patliputra Sports Complex in Patna, Bihar from 6-11 August 2023.
*     Won the Silver medal in boys’ 42kg sanshou category of the 17th Sub-junior National Wushu Championship, held at Maulana Azad Stadium in Jammu from March 27 to 31, 2018.

INTERNATIONAL:
*     Won Silver medal in sub-junior 45kg category of the 10th Asian Junior Wushu Championships, held in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei from 16-24 August, 2019.
*     Won the Silver medal in 42kg sub-junior sanshou event of the 7th World Junior Wushu Championships, held at Brasilia, Brazil from July 10-16, 2018.

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
*     On July 30, 2018, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik awarded him with Rs 2.33 lakhs for winning silver medal at the Junior World Wushu Championship in Brazil.
*     Before taking part in the the 2018 World Junior Championship, he underwent training in China.
*     His training and participating in national and international tournaments is being sponsored by Jindal Steel & Power Limited.
*     Got his initial training under international kick-boxer and coach Pankaj Kumar Mahanta.
*     Lost his father when he was just six-years-old.
*     He now lives with his mother and grandmother.

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: 2 April 2018
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: 24 August 2023