Who is Ravi Kumar Dahiya?

Ravi Kumar Dahiya

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Who is Ravi Kumar Dahiya?

Ravi Kumar Dahiya is an Indian wrestler from Haryana’s Nahri village in Sonipat district. The 23-year old wrestler rose to fame after he joined India's Olympic medal-winners club with a silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He is the second Indian wrestler to win an Olympic silver after Sushil Kumar. He was among the 8 Indian wrestlers who represented India at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Prior to the Olympics, he had won a bronze medal at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships in the 57 kg weight category.

At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, a lot of expectations was riding on Dahiya’s

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Asian Games 2023, India wrestling squad: Full list of wrestlers for Asiad

A total of 18 wrestlers were selected for the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou, with six wrestlers each in Greco-Roman, men's freestyle and women's freestyle.

Updated On : 16 Aug 2023 | 12:40 PM IST

Asian Games: Olympic medalist Ravi Dahiya loses in trials to Atish Todakr

Ravi Dahiya lost to Atish Todakar by fall after trailing 8-20. Todkar lost to Rahul, who was then beaten by Asian Championship gold medalist Aman Sehrawat. Thus Sehrawat qualified in 57-kg category

Updated On : 23 Jul 2023 | 4:41 PM IST

Congratulatory messages pour in for Olympic silver medallist Ravi Dahiya

Wrestler Ravi Dahiya's fighting spirit and tenacity got all round praise from the Indian sports fraternity with the President and the Prime Minister leading the country in hailing his outstanding feat

Updated On : 05 Aug 2021 | 7:20 PM IST

What a brilliant comeback: Anurag Thakur hails Ravi Dahiya's performance

Anurag Thakur, Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports, and Kiren Rijiju, Union Minister for Law and Justice,hailed Ravi Dahiya as he stormed into the finals of the men's freestyle 57kg category

Updated On : 04 Aug 2021 | 7:42 PM IST

Tokyo Olympics 2021, Wrestling schedule: Ravi and Deepak get good draw

Indian wrestler Ravi Dahiya got a good draw as he will open his 57kg campaign in the Tokyo Olympics against Colombia's Tigreros Urbano.

Updated On : 03 Aug 2021 | 11:55 AM IST

Olympic-bound Ravi, Deepak nominated for Arjuna along with Anshu and Sarita

The Wrestling Federation of India has nominated Olympic-bound and World Championship medal-winning wrestlers Ravi Dahiya and Deepak Punia for the Arjuna award along with fast-rising Anshu Malik.

Updated On : 30 Jun 2021 | 8:32 PM IST

Wrestler Deepak Punia pulls out of Poland Open due to hand injury

Olympic-bound Indian wrestler Deepak Punia pulled out of the Poland Open here to avoid aggravating his left-hand injury that he carried into the last Ranking Series event before the Tokyo Games

Updated On : 08 Jun 2021 | 5:32 PM IST