Krishna Poonia Net Worth

Krishna Poonia is an Indian discus thrower who became a national star when she won gold at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, the first Indian woman to win an athletics title at the Games. She also won bronze medals at the 2006 and 2010 Asian Games and competed at three Olympics, reaching the final in London in 2012. She was coached by her husband, Virender Singh Poonia, and received the Padma Shri in 2011.

Born in Haryana and married into a family from Rajasthan, she went into politics with the Congress. She won the Sadulpur seat in the 2018 Rajasthan election, stood for the Lok Sabha in Jaipur Rural in 2019 and lost Sadulpur in 2023, when she finished second with about 31.6 percent of the vote. Her affidavit for that election declared assets of ₹3.89 crore and liabilities of ₹41 lakh.

What she declared

Business Standard, which publishes ADR's affidavit data, lists her total assets as ₹3,89,05,766, made up of ₹2.17 crore in movable assets and ₹1.73 crore in immovable property, and her liabilities as ₹41,01,537. It prints her net worth as ₹3,48,04,229.

The figure has barely moved in a decade. Her declared assets were ₹3.45 crore when she first stood for election in 2013, ₹3.52 crore in 2018 and ₹3.60 crore in 2019. In the 2023 affidavit she gave her profession as retired and social worker, and her husband's as a Rajasthan government servant.

How she made her money

Athletics pays modestly in India. Krishna's wealth comes from prize money, the cash awards states and the central government give to Commonwealth and Asian Games medallists, and the property her family owns in Rajasthan and Haryana.

Her net worth is in the same range as other Indian Olympians on this list, such as the wrestler Vinesh Phogat, and far below that of the country's leading cricketers.

About this figure

Every candidate for an Indian election has to file a sworn affidavit (Form 26) listing everything she and her household own and owe. In her 2023 Rajasthan election affidavit, Krishna Poonia declared total assets of ₹3,89,05,766 and liabilities of ₹41,01,537. We subtract one from the other to get the declared net worth of ₹3,48,04,229 (about ₹3.5 crore), about $0.37 million at the October 26, 2026 exchange rate. The affidavit figures are transcribed by the Association for Democratic Reforms on MyNeta and were reported by national media at the time.

Keep in mind what this number is. Assets in an affidavit are listed at the values the candidate states, and property is often entered well below what it would sell for today. It is an official declaration, not a journalist's estimate of her wealth, and it only covers what was owned on the day it was filed.