Mahima Choudhary
{{Short description|Indian hockey player}}
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{{Infobox field hockey player
| name = Mahima Choudhary
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| birth_name = Mahima Choudhary
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1999|12|6|df=y}}
| birth_place = Kalsi, Uttar Pradesh, India
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| position = Midfielder
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| clubs1 = Railway Sports Promotion Board
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| clubs2 = Indian Oil Corporation Ltd
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| years3 = 2025–
| clubs3 = Rarh Bengal Tigers
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| nationalteam1 = India U21
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| nationalyears2 = 2022–
| nationalteam2 = India
| nationalcaps2 = 5
| nationalgoals2 = 0
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{{MedalSport|Women's field hockey}}
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{{MedalCompetition|Hockey5s World Cup}}
{{MedalSilver|2024 Oman|}}
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Mahima Choudhary (born 6 December 1999) is an Indian field hockey player and member of Indian women hockey team. She hails from Kalsi village in Uttar Pradesh. She plays for Indian Oil Corporation Limited in the domestic hockey tournaments. She plays as a defender.{{Cite web |date=13 August 2020 |title=From bunking lecture to waiting for years, Mahima Choudhary's journey not a cakewalk for junior team call-up |url=https://aninews.in/news/sports/hockey/from-bunking-lecture-to-waiting-for-years-mahima-choudharys-journey-not-a-cakewalk-for-junior-team-call-up20200813171615/ |access-date=7 September 2023 |website=www.aninews.in |agency=ANI}}
Early life
Mahima started playing in 2011. She played for four consecutive years in the Hockey India Sub-Junior National Championships before she got the National call for Junior India camp.{{Cite web |title=How small town girl Mahima Choudhary made her career in Hockey |url=https://english.webdunia.com/sports-news/how-small-town-girl-mahima-choudhary-made-her-career-in-hockey-120081400014_1.html |access-date=17 September 2023 |website=Webdunia |language=en}} Hailing from a ror family from small rural village, Kalsi in Uttar Pradesh, her family shifted to Sonipat, Haryana to help her play hockey.
Hockey career
In 2015, she represented Haryana in the 5th Hockey India Junior National Championship at Chhattisgarh. In December 2021, she was named among the 60 probables for the India camp in Bengaluru to prepare for Women's Asia Cup 2022 in January.{{Cite web |last=Nalwala |first=Ali Asgar |date=28 December 2021 |title=In search for fresh talent, 60 players attend Indian women's hockey national camp in Bengaluru |url=https://olympics.com/en/news/indian-women-hockey-team-national-camp-asia-cup-2022 |access-date=17 September 2021 |website=www.olympics.com}} She was selected as the vice-captain{{Cite web |last=PTI |date=20 May 2022 |title=Rajani Etimarpu to lead India in inaugural FIH Women's Hockey 5s |url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/hockey/indian-womens-team-hockey-5s-rajani-etimarpu-mahima-choudhary/article38495644.ece |access-date=17 September 2023 |website=sportstar.thehindu.com |language=en}} for the nine-member Indian women's hockey team in May 2022 for the inaugural FIH Women's Hockey 5s tournament held in Lausanne, Switzerland from 4 to 5 June.{{Cite web |last=PTI |date=20 May 2022 |title=Rajani Etimarpu to lead India in inaugural FIH Women's Hockey 5s |url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/hockey/indian-womens-team-hockey-5s-rajani-etimarpu-mahima-choudhary/article38495644.ece |access-date=7 September 2023 |website=sportstar.thehindu.com |language=en}} She scored the winning goal in the final of the inaugural women's Hockey 5s Asia Cup final to beat Thailand 7–2. It was the Asia's qualifying tournament for the Women's Hockey 5s World Cup to be held in 2024.{{Cite web |title=Hockey 5s Asia Cup: India win maiden edition; qualify for World Cup 2024 |url=https://www.rediff.com/sports/report/india-down-malaysia-to-enter-final-qualify-for-2024-wc/20230828.htm |access-date=7 September 2023 |website=Rediff |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=International Hockey Federation |url=https://tms.fih.ch/people/16313 |access-date=7 September 2023 |website=tms.fih.ch}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.hockeyindia.org/players/mahima-choudhary-profile-1626 Mahima Choudhary] at Hockey India
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Category:People from Saharanpur district
Category:Indian female field hockey players
Category:Field hockey players from Uttar Pradesh
Category:Sportswomen from Uttar Pradesh