FULL NAME: Punga Soren
GENDER: Male
BORN: 7th April, 2001 or 4th July, 2001 (Ref: East Zone Junior Championship 2017) and 4th July, 2000 (Ref: Asian Youth Championship results).
PARENTS: Khela Soren(Father)
HOME ADDRESS: Bhubaneswar, Odisha
EDUCATION: Studied at Junior Mahavidyalaya, Chitol, Jajpur
EVENTS PURSUED: 110m hurdles and 400m hurdles
RECEIVED COACHING FROM: Not known

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:

STATE:
*     Won the 110m-hurdles gold and 400m-hurdles bronze medal in boys-20 age group of the 66th Odisha State Athletics Meet, held at Barabati Stadium, Cuttack from 28-30 December, 2018.
*     Emerged best male athlete by winning gold medals in U-18 boys’ 110m and 400m hurdles events of the 65th Odisha State Athletics Championship, held at Barabati Stadium, Cuttack from Dec 28-30, 2017. Also equalled meet record in 110m hurdles.
*     Won the gold medal with new meet record (142s) in U-18 boys’ 110m hurdles and silver in 400m hurdles events of the 64th Odisha State Athletics Championship, held at Cuttack from April 2-4, 2017.
*     Won the (boys-18) 110m hurdles title with new meet record in the 63rd Odisha State Athletics Meet, held at Barabati Stadium, Cuttack from Dec 28 to 30, 2015.

ZONAL:
*     Won silver medal in Boys-20 110m hurdles event of the 31st East Zone Junior Athletics Championship, held at Birsa Munda Stadium in Ranchi, Jharkhand on 14-15 Sept, 2019.
*     Silver medal in U-18 boys 110m hurdles event of the 30th East Zone Junior Athletics Championship, held at Patna, Bihar on Sept 15 and 16, 2018.
*     Gold medal in u-18 boys’ 100m hurdles and bronze in 400m hurdles events of the 29th East Zone Junior Athletics Championship, held at SAI Complex in Kolkata on Sept 17-18, 2017.
*     Won the boys-18 silver medal in 110m hurdles (14.5s) event of the 28th East Zone Junior Athletics Championship, held at Guwahati, Assam on Sept 10 and 11, 2016.
*     Gold medal in boys-14 triathlon event, scoring 1586 points in the 25th East Zone Junior Athletics Championship held at Birsa Munda Stadium in Ranchi from August 17 to 19.

NATIONAL:
*     Won the gold medal in boys 110m hurdles event of the 15th Youth (U-18) National Athletics Championship, held at Vadodara, Gujrat from July 21-23, 2018.
*     Won the gold medal in boys 110m hurdles event of the 1st Khelo India School Games, held in New Delhi from Jan 31 to Feb 8, 2018.
*     Won the silver medal in 110m hurdles event of the 14th Youth National Athletics Championship at GMC Balayogi Stadium, Gochibowli, Hyderabad on April 22, 2017.
*     Won the U-16 boys 100m gold medal, clocking 13.76 seconds in the 32nd Junior National Athletics Championship, held at Nehru Stadium in Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) from Nov 10 to 14, 2016.
*     Won the silver medal in under-16 boys 100 metre hurdles event with a time of 13.53 seconds in the 31st Junior National Athletics Championship at Ranchi in Jharkhand on Nov 23, 2015.

INTERNATIONAL:
*     Finished eighth in 110m hurdles event of the 2 nd Asian Youth Athletics Championship, held at Bangkok, Thailand from May 20-23, 2017.

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: 20 August, 2013
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: 12 April, 2020