Vinesh Phogat, one of India's star wrestlers, has achieved the success in a very young age. She was born on August 25, 1994 in Balali village of Haryana. Her uncle Mahavir Phogat, who himself was a wrestler, taught him the tricks of wrestling. Film Dangal Cinema is also based on him.. His whole family is connected with wrestling. Her cousins are Geeta, Babita, Sangeeta and Ritu, are her sister Priyanka are in the field of wrestling. His brother is also involved in wrestling.
His training started from 2009 to all the junior classes. In 2013, he tasted the first taste of success when Vinesh won a bronze in 51 kg at the Asian Games in Delhi and a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games held in Johannesburg this year. Then Vinesh did not look back. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Vinesh found gold in the 48 kg weight category.
In 2014 alone won a bronze medal at the Incheon Asian Games. He won silver in Asian Wrestling in Doha in 2015 and bronze in 53kg in Bangkok in 2016. She has won 35 medals so far at the national and international level. Her different goal is to brighten the country's name by performing well in the Olympics. However, She was targeted at his home state of Haryana over policies. Because of which she came into the limelight. She termed the policies of the Khattar government as against the interest of the player. She said, the earlier Congress government's policy was better.
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