Mariana Kujur (born 24 April 1999) is an Indian field hockey player from Odisha and member of the Indian women's hockey team. She plays for the Railway Sports Promotion Board in the domestic hockey tournaments. Kujur plays as a defender.
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.
Hockey career
She made her Junior India debut in December 2016 at the 4th Under-18 Women's Asia Cup tournament held at Bangkok, 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 at 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, Australia in December 2019. She made her Senior India debut in December 2021 at the Donghae Women's Asian Champions Trophy 2021 and also took part in the Women's Asia Cup in January 2022. She took part in the 2021-22 FIH Hockey Pro League (W) from 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 at Oman.