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Kavita Dalal (born 20 September 1986) is an Indian professional wrestler who performed in the WWE under the ring name Kavita Devi, on their developmental territory NXT between 2017 and 2021. Devi is the first female professional wrestler of Indian nationality to wrestle in WWE. [ 4 ]
Her first international championship took place in Estonia in 2008. She came among the global top 8 and was included in a list of 150 fearless women by Newsweek. [10] After Estonia, Dave has represented India in tournaments at Poland, Finland and Taiwan. At the 2009 World Games, she stood fifth in the women's middleweight category. [11] [12]
[11] [12] Kripa Shankar Patel Bishnoi, a coach with the Indian women's wrestling team, trained Khan and the cast for the wrestling sequences. [ 13 ] After a North American premiere on December 21, 2016, Dangal was released worldwide on December 23 to universal critical acclaim, with praise centered on the film's "honest" depiction of a real ...
Geeta Phogat (born 15 December 1988) [1] is a freestyle wrestler who won India's first-ever gold medal in wrestling at the Commonwealth Games in 2010. She was also the first Indian female wrestler to have qualified for the Olympic Games .
Alka Tomar is an Indian wrestler [5] who belongs to village Sisauli (Uttar Pradesh). [6] She became the National Women Wrestling champion of India, and received the bronze medal in Wrestling (59 kg Freestyle) at the Doha Asian Games in 2006. [7] Alka Tomar also received a bronze at the Senior Wrestling Championships in Guangzhou in China 2006. [8]
Wrestling’s popularity reached a crescendo in India after iconic wrestlers Sushil Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt secured three medals collectively across the 2008 Beijing games and the 2012 London ...
Indian Olympic wrestling star Vinesh Phogat was disqualified from the Paris Games, but she's determined to keep fighting for her constituency and against sexual harassment of women as she contests ...
In 2017, she competed in the women's 75 kg event at the World Wrestling Championships held in Paris, France. [4] In 2019, she won the silver medal in the women's 76 kg event at the Asian U23 Wrestling Championship held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. [5] In that same year, she also competed at the 2019 Asian Wrestling Championships held in Xi'an ...