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| Born |
24 April 1999 Timna, Sundergarh, Odisha, India | ||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
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| Current club | Railway Sports Promotion Board | ||||||||||||||||
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| Hockey Odisha | |||||||||||||||||
| Railway Sports Promotion Board | |||||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| India U21 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2022– | India | 8 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
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Mariana Kujur (born 24 April 1999) is an Indian field hockey player from Odisha and member of the Indian women's hockey team.[1] She plays for the Railway Sports Promotion Board in the domestic hockey tournaments. Kujur plays as a defender.[2]
Early life
Mariana Kujur hails from Timna village in Sundergarh district, Odisha. She has two brothers and two sisters and she is the youngest in the family. Both her brothers used to play hockey for relaxation but when Kujur moved to her uncle's house for studies, she joined for hockey under her cousin. She is a product of Panposh Sports Hostel and one of her first coaches who taught her basics when she joined in 2010 was Amulyananda Bihari.[3]
Hockey career
She made her junior India debut in December 2016 at the 4th under-18 Women's Asia Cup tournament held in Bangkok,[4] Thailand where India got a bronze medal. In July 2018, she was part of the silver medal-winning India youth team at the 6-Nation under-23 women's hockey tournament in Antwerp, Belgium. In April 2019, she took part in the under-21 4 Nations junior women invitational tournament in Dublin. Later she was part of the gold medal-winning Indian team in the under-21 3-Nations Invitation Tournament in Canberra, in December 2019. She made her Senior India debut in December 2021 at the Donghae Women's Asian Champions Trophy and also took part in the Women's Asia Cup in January 2022. She took part in the 2021-22 Women's FIH Hockey Pro Leaguein June 2022. In between, senior hockey5s debut at the Hero FIH Hockey5s Lausanne tournament in June 2022 and the Women's Hockey5s Asia Cup Salalah 2023 in Oman.[5][4]
References
- ↑ "Mariana Kujur Profile". Hockey India. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
- ↑ "Want to become world's best midfielder, says Odisha-born Mariana Kujur | Sambad English". 2020-07-30. Retrieved 2023-09-08.
- ↑ Qureshy, Tazeen (2022-02-21). "In Odisha's hockey cradle, a firebrand 22-year-old ends her family's long wait". thebridge.in. Retrieved 2023-09-13.
- 1 2 "Orisports.com". www.orisports.com. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
- ↑ "Kujur Mariana | India hockey player". International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
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