Sushil Kumar Infprmation

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Sushil Kumar (born May 26, 1983[1]) is an Indian World Champion wrestler who won

the gold medal in the 66 kg freestyle competition at the FILA 2010 World Wrestling

Championships, a silver medal in the Men's 66kg Freestyle Wrestling event at the 2012London Olympics and a bronze medal in the Men's 66kg Freestyle Wrestling event at the

2008 Beijing Olympics, which made him the first Indian to win back to back individual

Olympic medals.[2] Sushil Kumar competed against Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu of Japan in theLondon Olympics finals. Kumar defeated Leonid Spiridonov of Kazakhstan in the

repechage round to win the bronze in Beijing Olympics.[2] This was the second medal

for India in wrestling, and the first since K D Jadhav's bronze medal at the 1952 HelsinkiOlympic Games.[3] On July 2009, he received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna - India's

highest honour for sportspersons.[4] On 3 October 2010, Sushil Kumar was the final

baton bearer who handed the Queen's Baton to Prince Charles in the Queen's Baton Relay

for the 2010 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony.[5][6]

Biography

Sushil Kumar belongs to a Jat family[7] who comes from the village Baprola[8] near

Najafgarh in South West Delhi. Kumar's father Diwan Singh was a DTC bus driver andmother Kamla Devi a housewife. He was inspired to take up wrestling by his cousin

Sandeep and his father who was himself a pehlwan (wrestler). Sandeep quit wrestling as

the family could only support one wrestler. Kumar trained at the akhada (wrestlingschool) in the Chhatrasal Stadium from the age of 14. With minimal funds and poor

training facilities for wrestling in India, even for the 2008 Olympic team, his family made

sure he obtained the necessary dietary supplements by sending him tinned milk, ghee and

vegetables.[9][10] He is a vegetarian.[11][12]Kumar is presently employed to the Indian Railways as Assistant Commercial Manager.

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Career

Kumar started training at the Chhatrasal Stadium's akhada at the age of 14. Trained at the

akhada by Indian pehlwans Yashvir and Ramphal, and later by Arjuna awardee Satpal

and then at the Railways camp by coach Gyan Singh,[3] Sushil endured tough training

conditions which included sharing a mattress with a fellow wrestler and sharing adormitory with twenty others.[13] at the age of 18 he became state champ.

His first success came at the World Cadet Games in 1998 where he won the gold medal

in his weight category. He followed this up with a gold in the Asian Junior WrestlingChampionship in 2000.

Moving out of the junior competition, Sushil Kumar won the bronze medal at the Asian

Wrestling Championships in 2003 and followed that up with a gold medal at theCommonwealth Wrestling Championships. Sushil Kumar placed fourth in the World

Championships in 2003, but this went largely unnoticed by the Indian media as he fared

badly in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, in the 60 kg class placing 14th. He won

gold medals at the Commonwealth Wrestling Championships in 2005 and 2007. He


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ranked seventh in the 2007 World Wrestling Championships and won a bronze medal in

2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. He also qualified for 2012 Summer Olympics taking

place at London and won a silver medal by defeating a wrestler from Kazakhstan.Hebecame the first Indian to win 2 olympic medals.[14]

Sushil Kumar was awarded the Arjuna Award in 2006.

2008 Beijing OlympicsOut of the field of 21, 11 wrestlers including obtained a bye to the 1/8 round. He lost toAndriy Stadnik from Ukraine in the first round of the 66 kg freestyle wrestling event,[15]

leaving his medal hopes hinging on the repechage. Sushil Kumar defeated American

Doug Schwab in the first repechage round and Belarusian Albert Batyrov in the secondrepechage round. In the bronze medal match on 20 August 2008 Kumar beat Spiridonov

3:1, with scores of 2-1, 0-1, 2-0 in the three rounds.[16] Sushil Kumar disclosed that he

had no masseur during the three bouts he won within a span of 70 minutes to take the

bronze. The team manager Kartar Singh who is a former Asian Games medallist acted as

the masseur for him.[17]

2010 World Wrestling Championships, MoscowSushil Kumar created history when he became the first Indian to win a gold medal at

FILA 2010 World Wrestling Championships held in Moscow on 12 September 2010.Sushil Kumar beat local hope & crowd favourite Alan Gogaev of Russia 3-1 in the finals

for the gold in the 66 kg freestyle wrestling category. Earlier, he had won a thrilling semi-

final match against European champion Jabrail Hasanov of Azerbaijan 4-3 to make it tothe final (He scored a 2 point move in the last 5 seconds to come from 2-3 behind). After

getting a bye in the first round, Sushil had routed Akritidis Anastasios of Greece 6-0 in

the second round, beat Martin Sebastian of Germany 4-1 in the pre-quarters &demolished Mongolian Buyanjav Batzorig 9-1 in the quarter-finals.

2010 Commonwealth Games, DelhiSushil Kumar won gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi on 10

October 2010. He beat Heinrich Barnes of South Africa 7-0 in the finals in the 66 kg

freestyle wrestling category. The South African wrestler could not endure more than

three and half minutes in front of Sushil. In fact the bout had to be stopped by the refereein the second round. Earlier, in the semifinals, Sushil defeated Famara Jarjou of the

Gambia 3-0 in a record 9 seconds.[18] In the quarterfinals Sushil Kumar defeated

Muhammad Salman of Pakistan 10-0 in 46 seconds.


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[edit]2012 London OlympicsSushil Kumar won the Silver medal of 66 kg Free Style Wrestling after losing the final toTatsuhiro Yonemitsu of Japan.[19]

Earlier he had entered the final by beating Kazakhastan's Akzhurek Tanatarov in the

semifinal.[20]

Sushil had also led the Indian contingent at the 2012 London Summer Olympic Gamesand was India's flag bearer for the London Olympics opening ceremony on July 27.[21]

Awards, Rewards and Recognition

Arjuna Award, 2005

For the bronze medal at 2008 Beijing Olympics

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratnaaward (joint), India's highest sporting honour.

55 lakh (US$99,600) cash award and promotion to Assistant Commercial Manager from

chief ticketing inspector by Railway Ministry (his employer)[22]

50 lakh (US$90,500) cash award from the Delhi Government.[22]

25 lakh (US$45,300) award by the Haryana Government.[22]

25 lakh (US$45,300) cash award by the Steel Ministry of India.[22]

5 lakh (US$9,100) cash award by R K Global.[22]

10 lakh (US$18,100) cash award by the Maharashtra State Government.

10 lakh (US$18,100) cash award fromMTNL.

For the gold medal at 2010 World Wrestling Championships

10 lakh (US$18,100) cash award from Indian Railways (his employer) & out-of-turn

promotion from his current position of Asst. Commercial Manager.

10 lakh (US$18,100) cash award fromSports Authority of India, (Government of India).

10 lakh (US$18,100) cash award from the Delhi Government

For the silver medal at 2012 London Olympics

2crore(US$362,000) cash reward from the Delhi Government

1.5 crore (US$271,500) cash reward from the Haryana Government 0.75crore(US$135,750) cash reward from the Indian Railway

Land area in Sonipat for Wrestling academy by the Haryana Government.

10 lakh (US$18,100) cash award fromONGC.[23]
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Nationality Indian

Born May 26, 1983 (age 29)[1]

Baprola,Delhi

Height 166 cm (5 ft 5 in)

Sport

Country India

Sport Wrestling

Event(s) 66 kg freestyle

Club NIS, Delhi

Coached by Satpal Padamshree, Yashvir Singh
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Medal record[hide]

Competitor for India

Men'sFreestyle Wrestling

Olympic Games

Silver 2012 London 66 kg

Bronze 2008 Beijing 66 kg

World Championships

Gold 2010 Moscow 66 kg

Commonwealth Championship

Gold 2003 London 60 kg

Gold 2005 Cape Town 66 kg

Gold 2007 London 66 kg

Gold 2009 Jalander 66 kg

Commonwealth Games

Gold 2010 Delhi 66 kg

Asian Championships

Gold 2010 New Delhi 66 kg

Silver 2007 Kyrgyzstan 66kg

Bronze 2003 New Delhi 60 kgBronze 2008 Jeju Island 66 kg

Updated on 13 August 2012.
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