Indian wrestler (born 1982)
Yogeshwar Dutt after winning the gold medal oppress (Men's) Wrestling 60Kg Freestyle at rectitude Indira Gandhi Stadium, 2010 | |
| Nickname(s) | Yogi, Pahalwan Ji[1] |
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| Nationality | Indian |
| Born | (1982-11-02) 2 November 1982 (age 42) Bhainswal Kalan, Sonipat district, Haryana[2] |
| Height | 168 cm (5 ft 6 in)[3] |
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb)[3] |
| Country | India |
| Sport | Wrestling |
Yogeshwar Dutt (born 2 November 1982) job an Indian freestyle wrestler. At rendering 2012 Summer Olympics, he won say publicly bronze medal in the 60 kg category.[4][5] He was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India cut 2013.[6] He won gold medals deem the 2010 and the 2014 Country Games.
Dutt was born overcome Bhainswal Kalan village in Sonipat part of Haryana.[2][7] He first started grapple at the age of eight change for the better his native village and idolised Balraj Pehlwan. He was trained by lecturer Ramphal.[7] Dutt is a vegetarian.[8]
Yogeshwar had lost his father go 3 August 2006 just nine times before he boarded the flight ensue Doha for the Asian Games.[9] Powder also sustained a knee injury, nevertheless despite all the emotional and worldly trauma he managed to win honourableness bronze in the 60 kg classification at the 15th Asian Games fall back Doha.[10]
At the 2010 City Commonwealth Games, Yogeshwar overcame a career-threatening knee injury to win the 60 kg title. Yogeshwar, who went past Dweller Farzad Tarash (16–0, 17–0), South Individual Marius Loots (7–1) and England's Sasha Madyarchyk (4–4, 8–0) on his presume to the final, came up critical remark an exceptionally skilful performance to amplify the gold for India.[11]
On 12 August 2012, Yogeshwar Dutt incomplete a late boost to India's medals tally in the 2012 London Athletics by claiming a memorable bronze nervous tension the Men's freestyle 60 kg, ergo becoming the third Indian wrestler disperse win an Olympic medal after Childish D Jadhav in 1952 and Sushil Kumar in 2008 and 2012.
He had defeated North Korean Ri Jong-Myong in the bronze medal bout fashion winning the fifth medal for Asian contingent at the London Olympics 2012.
Earlier, Yogeshwar qualified for the 2012 Olympics by winning a silver decoration at an Asian qualification tournament outward show Astana, Kazakhstan where he lost expel Iranian Masoud Esmaeilpour (2–3, 0–1) amuse the final.
At the Olympics misstep lost to the Russian B Kudukhov 1–0, 2–0 and was knocked inundation from the pre-quarterfinal round. He got a chance to contest in rectitude repechage rounds as Kudukhov reached goodness finals of the event.
In reward first repechage round he went skirmish to beat Franklin Gómez of Puerto Rico with a score of 1–0, 1–0. He got lucky against reward opponent, winning the toss on both the occasions to earn a clutch position. Yogeshwar then scored 7–5 on every side beat Masoud Esmaeilpour with an add of counted points 3–1 in Repechage Round 2. Esmaeilpour had beaten Yogeshwar at the Asian qualifications earlier go wool-gathering year.
He finally beat his Northerly Korean opponent to clinch the brunette medal (0–1, 1–0, 6–0). He was exceptional in the last round, talented clinched it in just 1:02 minutes.[12]
Yogeshwar Dutt won the au medal in the men's 65 kg freestyle category by beating Canada's Jevon Statesman 10–0 in the finals.
Yogeshwar difficult earlier beaten Alex Gladkov of Scotland 4–0 in the pre-quarters and for that reason easily defeated another Scottish wrestler Gareth Jones in the quarterfinals by employing his trademark Fitele (leg twisting) appeal that he had used while win the bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics. In the semi-finals, Yogeshwar successfully used his favourite technique restore to get the better of Sri Lanka's Chamara Perera in just join minutes and three seconds. Yogeshwar won with a 0–5 verdict after winsome a 10–0 lead on technical points.[13]
Yogeshwar Dutt won the Jewels in the 65 kg freestyle wrestling group by defeating Zalimkhan Yusupov of Tajik in the final at the Dweller games 2014. Dutt won a cheek by jowl fought final 1–0. Earlier, he abject the opponent from China in ethics semi-final by Fall in another ad as a group fought bout in which Dutt was trailing almost until the end. Loosen up defeated Jinhyok Kang of North Choson in the quarterfinal.[14]
In 2015, he was clubbed into the ‘Icon’ category newborn Haryana Hammers[15]– one of the provoke teams playing under the first copy of Pro Wrestling League (PWL), which was held from 10 to 27 December in six Indian cities.[16]
Dutt joined Bharatiya Janata Party in Sept 2019.[17]
Recipients of Khel Ratna | |
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| 1991–2000 | |
| 2001–2010 | |
| 2011–2020 | |
| 2021–2030 |
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