List of Pehlwani wrestlers
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This is a list of Pehlwani wrestlers who played in Olympics, Asian Games and State level Kesari tournaments.
Olympic Freestyle Wrestlers[]
- Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav - 1952 Olympic bronze medalist, 1948 Olympics 6th place
- Mohammad Bashir - 1960 Olympic bronze medalist, 3-time Commonwealth Games gold medalist, 4-time Asian Games medalist
Asian Games Freestyle Wrestlers[]
Bhim singh bhati - 1966 Commonwealth Gold medalist in 100 kg
- Chandgiram - 1970 Asian Games gold medalist
- Bharat Kesari Gama Pehalwan- Asian Games medalist[1]
Other prominent South Asian wrestlers[]
- [2][3][circular reference]* - Lion of India, who defeated World Champion Dara Singh within few minutes in Kolkata
- - Lion of Uttar Pradesh
- Akram Pahalwan - son of the wrestling legend Imam Baksh Pahalwan
- Aslam Pahlwan - also trained by Mama Moti Singh
- Bholu Brothers - illustrious Pehlwan Brothers (Bholu, Aslam, Goga, Akram and Azam)
- - Rustam-e-Hind, a great wrestler openly challenged all so called top wrestlers of his time and openly double challenged Chandgi Ram and Dara Singh
- Mangla Rai - Rustam-e-Hind
- Goga Pahalwan - son of the wrestling legend Imam Baksh Pahalwan
- Great Gama
- - wrestling Legend in India
- Gulam - accompanied the late Pandit Motilal Nehru to Paris in 1900 and defeated Cour-Derelli of Turkey
- Guru Hanuman - wrestler and coach
- Karim Bux - first wrestler to get into world headlines, when he defeated Tom Canon of England in 1892
- Kikkar Singh - Dev-e-Hind, known for his phenomenal chest and body
- Maruti Mane - Jakarta King 1962-1972
- Premnath Wrestler - Guru Premnath, Arjun Awardee 1972
- Rajkumar Baisla (Wrestler) - (Dhyan chand Awardee & Yash Bharti Award)
- Ramesh Kumar
- Uday Chand - Bronze Medalist World Wrestling championship
- - Bharat Kesari and National Champion
References[]
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