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India national kabaddi team represents India in international kabaddi and India national kabaddi team competitions. [19] India won gold medals at Asian Games in 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014. The 2018 edition is Indian Team's not winning the gold medal first time.
Kabaddi (/ k ə ˈ b æ d i /, [2] / ˈ k ʌ b ə d i /) [3] is a contact team sport played between two teams of seven players. It is one of the traditional games of South Asia. [4] The goal of the game is for a single offensive player, called the "raider," to enter the opposing team's half of the court, tag as many players as possible, and return to their own side within 30 seconds, all while ...
A kabaddi court at the 2006 Asian Games. In the international team version of kabaddi, two teams of seven members each occupy opposite halves of a court of 10 by 13 metres (33 ft × 43 ft) in the case of men and 8 by 12 metres (26 ft × 39 ft) in the case of women. [4]
Kabaddi's growth has led to it spreading outside of South Asia as well, with countries such as South Korea and Iran playing it. [62] [63] Kho-kho has also had a franchise league started for it, Ultimate Kho Kho; [64] the Pro Kabaddi League and Ultimate Kho Kho are respectively the most and third-most viewed non-cricket competitions in India. [65]
India vs Iran at the 2023 Asian Kho Kho Championship.Kho kho is South Asia's second-most popular tag game. After the British colonisation of the subcontinent which peaked from the 19th century to 1947, Western sports such as cricket, football, and hockey began to be followed to a greater extent, to the detriment of the traditional games.
Ronojoy Sen speculates in his book Nation At Play that kabaddi originated during the Vedic period (between 1500 BC and 500 BC). There are accounts of Gautama Buddha and Lord Krishna having played an ancient form of the sport. According to the sport's origins, kabaddi is a sport developed centered on Jallikattu. A player going to the opposition ...
The India men's national kabaddi team represents India in international men's kabaddi competitions. The team is by far the most successful national kabaddi side of any country, winning gold medals at the Asian Games in 1990 (the first year the sport was contested), 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2022, as well as winning all four Kabaddi World Cup events to date.
India (IND) C. Honappa Sanjeev Kumar Virender Kumar Muruga Nantham Biswajit Palit B. C. Ramesh Rambir Singh Sangwan Kiranpal Singh Ram Mehar Singh Shamsher Singh Pakistan (PAK) Zubair Ahmed Muhammad Akram Muhammad Ghulam Badshah Gul Mehmood Hussain Iqbal Javid Abdul Majeed Muhammad Mansha F. Muhammad Muhammad Sarwar Bangladesh (BAN) 2002 Busan ...