FULL NAME: Sneha Soren
GENDER: Female
BORN: 2 May, 2001 and 5 February 2001 (Source: Weightlifting Federation of India)
PARENTS: Father (Late Bada Soren), Mother (Late Chhita Soren)
HOME ADDRESS: At- Sikharghati, PO/Via- Krushnachandrapur, PS- Betnoti, Dist- Mayurbhanj, Odisha, India. PIN- 757029.
ACADEMIC EDUCATION: First-year BA student of KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. Earlier studied at Krishnachandrapur New Govt High School, Krishnachandrapur, Mayurbhanj and Sriram Chandra Bhanja Junior College, Raghdha.
PROFESSION: Not known
HOME ACADEMY/CLUB: Odisha-Tenvic Weightlifting High Performance Centre, Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar
RECEIVED COACHING FROM: Not known
UNITS REPRESENTED: Mayurbhanj District, KIIT University, Odisha, India

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:

STATE:
*     Won the Gold medal in senior women 55kg category of the 71st Odisha State Weightlifting Championship, held at Ganjam Weightlifting Academy in Berhampur from 9-11 August 2024. Also won the best lifter award in senior women category.
*     Won the Gold medal in senior women 55 kg category of the Odisha State Weightlifting Championship, held at Biju Patnaik Weightllifting Hall, Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar from 16-18 October 2023.

NATIONAL:
*     Won 1 Gold and 1 Silver medal in the senior women 55kg Inter-State and overall category respectively in the IWLF National Weightlifting Championship at Rainbow International School in Nagrata Bagwan, Himachal Pradesh on 9 October 2024.
*     Won one Gold and one Silver medal in senior women 55 kg category of the IWLF National Weightlifting Championship at Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh) on 31 December 2023.
*     Won the Bronze medal in women 55 kg category of the 37th National Games at Campal Sports Village in Panaji, Goa on 25 October 2023.
*     Won the Bronze medal in womens 49kg weight class of the 36th National Games in Gandhinagar, Gujarat on 30 September 2022.
*     Bagged one Gold (Junior women), one Silver (Inter-State) and one Bronze medal (Senior women) in 55kg category in the combined National Weightlifting Championships, held at NSNIS, Patiala from 9-12 August, 2021.
*     Won three Silver medals in girls 48kg category of the 13th Sub-junior National Weightlifting Championship, held at Vishakhapatnam from Feb 20-25, 2018.

INTERNATIONAL:
*     Won Gold medal in womens 49kg category of the 13th South Asian Games in Pokhara, Nepal on 5 Dec, 2019.
*     Finished 30th overall in womens 55kg category with a total lift of 173kg (Snatch 72kg + C&J 101kg) in the World Weightlifting Championships, held at Pattaya, Thailand from 18-27 Sept, 2019.
*     Won Silver medal in Junior women 55kg category with a total lift of 169kg (Snatch 73kg, C&J 96kg) in the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships, held in Apia, Samoa from 9-15 July, 2019.
*     Finished 7th in women 49kg category with total lift of 156kg (Snatch 66kg, C&J 90kg) in the 5th International Qatar Cup Weightlifting Championship, held in Doha, Qatar on 19 Dec, 2018.
*     Finished 5th in women 48kg category with total lift of 151kg (Snatch 67kg, C&J 84kg) in the Youth Olympic Games, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 6 Oct, 2018.
*     Won Bronze medal in women 48kg category with total lift of 145kg (Snatch 63kg, C&J 82kg) in the Asian Youth Weightlifting Championships, held in Urgench, Uzbekistan from 20-30 April, 2018.
*     Won Gold medal in women 48kg category with total lift of 138kg (Snatch 60kg, C&J 78kg) in the Commonwealth Youth Weightlifting Championships, held in Gold Coast, Australia from 3-9 Sept, 2017.

MISCELLANEOUS:
*     Won the Silver medal in 55kg senior category of the Asmita Khelo India Womens Weightlifting Zonal League (Zone A) at Biju Patnaik Weightlifting Hall, Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar on 12 July 2024.
*     Won the Silver medal in 55kg senior women category of the Khelo India Womens Inter-Zonal Weightlifting League Tournament at Rainbow International School in Nagrota Bagwan, Himachal Pradesh 17 March 2024.
*     Won the Gold medal for KIIT University in women 55kg category of the 4th Khelo India University Games at Rajiv Gandhi University in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh on 20 February 2024.
*     Won the Silver medal in senior 49kg category of the Khelo India Women National Ranking Weightlifting Tournament (Phase-2) at Modinagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh on 29 October 2022.
*     Won the Gold medal for KIIT Deemed to be University in 49kg weight class at the 2nd Khelo India University Games in Bengaluru on 24 April 2022.
*     Won one Gold medal in 49kg category of the All-India Inter-University Weightlifting (Women) Championship in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh on 27 December 2021.
*     Won the Gold medal in under-21 girls 49kg category of the 2nd Khelo India Youth Games at Pune on Jan 10, 2019.
*     Won the Silver medal in girls 48kg category of the 1st Khelo India School Games, held in New Delhi from Jan 31 to Feb 8, 2018.

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
*     She was felicitated with the Ekalabya Puraskar runner-up prize of Rs 50,000 and citation on 27 December, 2020.

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: 12 August 2015
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: 9 October 2024