The first World Wrestling Championships had been held in 1904 in Vienna however it took India somewhat over half a decade, or 14 years since its independence, to win their first medal on the meet.

Udey Chand is the first Indian wrestler to win a medal on the World Wrestling Championships. He bagged a bronze within the males’s freestyle 67kg class on the 1961 world championships held in Yokohama, Japan.

In whole, India have received 22 medals on the World Wrestling Championships. These embrace one gold, 5 silver and 16 bronze. Eleven of those medals have come since 2018.

Of the 22 medals received by India, eight had been bagged by girls. Only one medal has come within the Greco-Roman class.

Bajrang Punia has received probably the most medals for India on the world championships with 4 – one silver and three bronze.

India’s second medal was an improve. Bishamber Singh received India’s first silver on the World Wrestling Championships within the 57kg males’s freestyle in New Delhi in 1967. It was the primary and solely time India hosted the wrestling world championships.

India needed to wait practically 4 many years for his or her subsequent medal. It was Alka Tomar who broke the drought by changing into the first Indian lady to win a medal on the World Wrestling Championships. Tomar bagged a bronze within the 59kg class on the 2006 meet in Guangzhou, the People’s Republic of China.

Four years later, got here a historic gold medal. Sushil Kumar turned India’s first world champion in wrestling on the 2010 world championships in Moscow, Russia. He received the title within the 66kg freestyle class.

At the 2012 World Wrestling Championships in Strathcona County, Canada, India managed to win two medals at a single version for the primary time. It was the Phogat sisters to the fore as Geeta Phogat (55kg) and Babita Phogat (51kg) claimed a bronze every of their respective classes.

The following 12 months, India did one higher by successful three medals. The haul on the 2013 world championships in Budapest, Hungary included India’s first medal within the Greco-Roman class, courtesy a bronze from Sandeep Tulsi Yadav within the 66kg. The different medallists had been Amit Dahiya with silver within the males’s 55kg freestyle and Bajrang Punia, who claimed a bronze within the males’s 60kg freestyle.

In 2018, Bajrang Punia turned the primary Indian wrestler to win two medals on the world championships. He received one other bronze, once more in Budapest, within the 65kg occasion.

Punia was additionally part of India’s file haul of 5 medals on the 2019 World Wrestling Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. Bajrang Punia (65kg freestyle), Rahul Aware (61kg freestyle) and Ravi Kumar Dahiya (57kg freestyle) received a bronze every. Vinesh Phogat too received a bronze within the girls’s 50kg whereas Deepak Punia received a silver within the 86kg freestyle.

At the 2021 World Wrestling Championships in Oslo, Norway, Anshu Malik turned the primary Indian lady to win a silver medal on the meet.

Vinesh Phogat, in the meantime, turned the primary Indian lady to win two medals on the World Wrestling Championships after she received one other bronze, within the 53kg, in Belgrade Serbia. At the meet, Bajrang Punia received his fourth world championship medal, a bronze within the 65kg freestyle.

World Wrestling Championships: India’s medal winners