Krishna Pooniya led an unprecedented clean sweep of all the women’s discus medals in the Commonwealth Games on October 11, 2010. Krishna Poonia, born in 1982,in Hisar District, Haryana is a national woman discus throw champion of India. Krishna Punia led an Indian clean sweep in the women’s discus final on 11th October 2010, winning the Delhi Commonwealth Games gold medal with a throw of 61.51 metres.

Krishna Poonia led a historic Indian 1-2-3 by hurling the disc to 61.51m and became the country’s first woman in 52 years to win the gold on a day the Games was rocked by its first doping scandal when woman’s 100m champion gold medallist Osayemi Oludamola of Nigeria returned a positive test for a banned stimulant in CWG 2010.

Krishna Pooniya is the second Indian athlete after Milkha Singh (1958, Cardiff) to garner a gold in track and field events and her title enabled the country to equal its previous-best gold medal haul in Games history.