FULL NAME: Aruna Kumar Santa
GENDER: Male
BORN: Date not known
AGE: 16 years by 2012
HOME ADDRESS: Tellari, Nabarangpur, Odisha, India.
PRODUCT OF: Government Sports Hostel, Berhampur.
RECEIVED COACHING FROM: P Dharma Rao

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:

NATIONAL:
*     Bagged one gold and two silver medals with efforts of 90kg in snatch, 115kg in clean & jerk for a total of 205kg in boys 56kg category of the 7th Youth National Weightlifting Championship at Itanagar in Arunachal Pradesh on Nov 23, 2011.

INTERNATIONAL:
*     Secured gold medal in 56kg youth boys category of the Commonwealth  Weightlifting Championship, lifting 94kg in snatch, 120kg in clean & jerk for a total of 214kg at Apia, Samoa on June 6, 2012.
*     Bagged two gold and one bronze medals in boys 56kg class category of the 14th Asian Youth Weightlifting Championships, lifting 95kg in snatch, 126kg in clean and jerk for a total of and 221kg at Yangon, Myanmar on Nov 8, 2012.
*     According to Odisha Govt, Santa won one gold medal in Commonwealth Youth Weightlifting Championship, held at Capte Town in South Africa from Oct 8 to 16, 2011.

OTHER IMPORTANT DATA:
*     Appointed directly as Sepoy in Odisha Police and received the appointment letter from the hands of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar on April 30, 2015.
*     Joined Berhampur Sports Hostel in 2008.
*     His father is a farmer.

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: June 7, 2012
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: June 10, 2015