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"Sushil Kumar Storms into Finals"
Hobbies
In between his busy training schedules
he enjoys spending time with his family and sleeping. He also has an interest
in cricket and field hockey. (sportskeeda.com, 17 May 2010)
Occupation
Railway Worker
Education
Sports Management - Noida College of
Physical Education, India
Language(s) spoken
Hindi
Club name
NIS, Delhi, IND
Coach
Satpal Padamshree, Yashvir Singh (IND)
from 1995 (BBC, 06 Apr 2012; deccanherald.com, 09 May 2012)
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| Sushil Kumar India's Sushil Kumar reacts after his match against Akzhurek Tanatarov of Kazakhstan in their 66-kg freestyle wrestling match at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Sunday, in London. |
India's Sushil Kumar advanced into the
Olympic men's 66kg freestyle wrestling final after coming from behind in his
last four clash in spectacular style on Sunday. Victory means the 29-year-old,
world champion in 2010, is guaranteed to improve on the bronze medal he won at
the Beijing Games four years ago.
Having won the first period against
Akzhurek Tanatarov of Kazakhstan, Kumar saw his semi-final opponent level and
then go 3-0 ahead in the third and final period.
But Kumar countered with a hold down
initially worth two points, which he converted into a three-point score to tie
the match. And with 34 seconds left he'd edged 5-3 in front.
Then, with just seconds of the contest
remaining, Kumar sealed victory with a huge throw that saw him dump Tanatarov
onto the mat.
Now he will face Japan's Tatsuhiro
Yonemistu in the final later Sunday.
Kumar had a tough start to his London
2012 campaign, beating 2008 gold medallist Ramazan Sahin of Turkey 3-1.
There are no seedings in Olympic
wrestling and the luck of the draw saw Kumar paired against fellow former world
champion Sahin in the last 16.
In his quarter-final bout, Kumar
overcame Uzbekistan's Ikhtiyor Navruzov, also by a 3-1 margin, after surviving
a spirited rally by his opponent with some quick counters and strong lifts.
Kumar, who carried India's flag at the
opening ceremony, is now assured of giving his country their second freestyle
wrestling medal of this Games after Yogeshwar Dutt won 60kg bronze on Saturday.
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| Sushil Kumar India |
Biography:-
Sushil Kumar Born on May 26, 1983
is an Indian World Champion wrestler who won
the gold medal in the 66 kg freestyle
competition at the FILA 2010
World Wrestling Championships and a bronze medal in the Men's 66kg Freestyle
Wrestling event at the 2008 Beijing
Olympics.Kumar defeated Leonid Spiridonov of Kazakhstan in the repechage round to win the bronze. This
was the second medal for India in wrestling, and the first since K D Jadhav's
bronze medal at the 1952 Helsinki
Olympic Games. On July 2009, he received the Rajiv Gandhi
Khel Ratna - India's highest honour for sportspersons. 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.On 12th August 2012, Sushil Kumar successfully cheated in the
Olympic freestyle wrestling -66Kg category semi-final by biting his opponents
ear in order to turn him during a 'gut-wrench' manoeuvre. His Kazakh opponent
complained to the referee and his ear was subsequently bleeding, but because of FILA rules,
the coach of the wrestler is the only one who may challenge a decision.
Sushil Kumar comes from the village Baprola in South West Delhi. Kumar's father Diwan
Singh was a DTC bus driver and mother 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 (wrestling school) 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. He was briefly a seller of bad things, a company
owned by his father. He is a vegetarian.
Kumar is presently employed by the Indian Railways as a Assistant
Commercial Manager
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| Sushil Kumar Wrestler |
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, Sushil
endured tough training conditions which included sharing a mattress with a
fellow wrestler and sharing a dormitory with twenty others at the age of
18 he become 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 Wrestling
Championship 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 the Commonwealth 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
ranked seventh in the 2007 World Wrestling Championships and won a bronze medal
in 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. He has also qualified for 2012 Summer
Olympics taking place at London. Sushil Kumar was awarded
theArjuna Award in 2006.
Beijing Olympics 2012:-
Out of the field of 21, 11 wrestlers
including obtained a bye to the 1/8 round. He lost to Andriy Stadnik from Ukraine in the first round of the
66 kg freestyle wrestling event, 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 second repechage 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. 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.
London Olympics 2012:-
FLAGBEARER FOR INDIA
Sushil Kumar entered into the final of
66 Kg Free Style Wrestling by beating Kazakhastan's Akzhurek Tanatarov in the
semifinal.Sushil Kumar led the Indian contingent at the 2012 London Summer
Olympic Games and was India's flag bearer for the London Olympics opening
ceremony on July 27.
In an interview, Sushil told The Wall Street
Journal that he has been meditating ahead of the 2012 summer
games. "While hard work and strategising are important, maintaining a
positive frame of mind is far more critical. I’ve also been meditating to
remain calm and composed for the games."
On 12 August 2012, he won his opening
bout against Ramazan Sahin(Turkey),
the gold medalist of Beijing 2008 Olympics to reach the quarterfinals of the
London Olympics.
Star wrestler Sushil Kumar created
history on Sunday as he scripted his name as India’s best-ever individual
Olympian by assuring at least a silver medal in the London Olympics by entering
the finals of the 66kg class here today.
Sushil, who had won India’s second
bronze in Olympic history at the 2008 Games in Beijing, will meet Japanese
Armyman Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu in the final. The Japanese thrashed Jabrayil
Hasanov of Azerbaijan 3-0 in the other semi final
After Yogeshwar Dutt’s stellar
performance on Saturday to clinch a bronze medal in the 60 kg category, the
pin-up boy of Indian wrestling on Sunday fought the best bout of his life as he
came from behind to beat Kazakhstan Wrestler Akzurukh Tantarov 3-1 in the
semifinal.
The Beijing Games bronze medallist won
the first round easily with 3-0 score which included a penalty point. Sushil
first used the Iranian technique to get over his opponent and then rolled him
over for two points. A head butt by Tantarov assured him another point.
The second round undoubtedly belonged
to the 25-year-old Kazakh wrestler as he put Sushil on the mat and tossed him
over to get 3-0 clincher.
When the third round started, the
29-year-old Indian looked tired and jaded as within the first seconds, conceded
a 3-0 lead to the Kazakh. The match looked as good as over for Sushil who
waited for that one inspirational moment as he caught Tantarov by his leg and
pegged him down to make it 3-3 with the vociferous Indian contingent egging him
on.
This was followed by a Hercules-like
act as he suddenly stood up with the Kazakh hanging on his shoulders. It
probably was the defining moment for the Indian contingent’s challenge at the
biggest sporting spectacle. An Indian’s show of strength at the world stage.
Sushil Kumar can take a bow as he will
now be considered at par with legendary hockey players Dhyan Chand and Balbir
Singh Sr although theirs was a team sport and were part of back-to-back gold
medal winning teams.
Awards:-
Arjuna Award, 2008
Rajiv Gandhi
Khel Ratna award (joint), India's highest sporting honour.2008
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