Babita Kumari Phogat is an Indian freestyle wrestler. She won attention after winning the silver medal at the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games. She is one of the best female wrestlers in Indian history.
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Babita Kumari MondayNovember 20, 1989 (29 years old, as of 2018) wanBiwani, Haryana. Her constellation is Scorpio. At the end of his studies Babita enrolled himself Rotark MDU Seek her further education. Her father wanted her daughters to be a wrestler and began training Babita at a very young age with her sister Geeta. Babita often visited Akharas in a neighboring village with his father and sisters, most of which had to wrestle with boys. Having a career in wrestling is still considered a taboo for Indian women. Village-trained Babita attended the National Sports Academy in Patiala.
Old picture of Babita and Geeta Phogat
Physical appearance
kidney: 5 minutes 3 seconds
Weight (approx.): 55 kg
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
Family, caste and boyfriend
Babita Kumari Phogat Hindu jat family. Her father, Mahavir Singh Phogat, is a wrestler. Her mother's name is Shobha Kaur. She has a brother, Dushyant Phogat and three sisters, Geta Phogat, Sangita Phogat, ituRitu Phogat. All her sisters are wrestlers.
Babita Phogat with her father
Babita Phogat with her mother
Babita Kumari Phogat and Parents
Babita Kumari Phogat and Sister Geeta Phogat
Babita Kumari Phogat and Brother
Babita Kumari Phogat with her brother
Babita Kumari Phogat with family
Mom and grandmother Babita Kumari Phogat
Babita is also associated with the wrestler Vivek Suhag.
Babita Kumari Phogat with her boyfriend
job
Wrestling
Babita began his wrestling career at the Commonwealth Wrestling Championship in 2009 and won a gold medal in the women's freestyle 51kg class. However, she gained fame after winning a silver medal in the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games. At the 2012 World Championships, Babita became the second female wrestler in India (first sister Geeta Phogat) to win a medal at the event. Both won bronze medals.
Babita Phogat's Parents with Daughter's Medals
In 2014 she won a gold medal in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
Babita Kumari Wins Gold at 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games
After that, she was qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics. To participate in the Olympics, she became the fourth female wrestler in the country. But she lost in the first round.
Snap-on Babita Phogat with Nita Ambani at Rio Olympics 2016
After a disappointing performance at the Rio Olympics, Phogat won a silver medal in a women's 55kg freestyle wrestling at the Commonwealth Games on the 2018 Gold Coast.
Babita Kumari Phogat produced by silver at Commonwealth Gold Coast 2018
In 2019, Babita participated in the dance reality show “Nach Baliye 9” with her boyfriend Vivek Suhag.
Nach Baliye Babita Kumari Phogat with her boyfriend on the set
politics
Babita joined his father Mahavir Phogat on August 12, 2019 with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a patron of the Indian National Lok Dal.
Babita Phogat and Mahavir Phogat join BJP
arguement
In May 2018, Babita Phogat, along with sisters Geeta, Ritu, and Sangeeta, was expelled from Lucknow's National Camp in the absence of an inexplicable concentration camp. WFI President Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh said in an interview: “Wrestlers selected for national camps are expected to be physically reported to camps within three days. If they have a problem or problem, they should go there and report it to the coach and find a solution. But Geeta, Babita and others (all 13) did not. They did not communicate. This was not a serious training for them and I felt it was time for WFI to unplug. So we told them to sit at home and have fun. ”
medal
- Gold at the Jalandhar Commonwealth Wrestling Championships in the 51 kg category (2009)
- Delhi Commonwealth Games held in 51kg category Women's Freestyle Wrestling (2010)
- Gold at Melbourne Federal Wrestling Championships in 48kg category (2011)
- Bronze medal at the Strathcona County World Wrestling Championships in the 51kg category (2012)
- Bronze medal at the Delhi Asian Wrestling Championships in 55kg category (2013)
- Gold in the Glasgow Federal Games in 55kg category (2014)
- Goldcoast Commonwealth Games in 55kg category (2018)
Favorite things
- food: eaves
Babita Kumari Phogat with Dal Churma
- Cricket: Birat Collie
Virat Kohli and Babita Kumari Phogat
noodles
- Her hobbies include listening to music, traveling and cooking.
Babita Kumari Phogat Cuisine Food
- Babita follows a non-vegetarian diet.
- Outstanding performance at the international level, Phogat became one of the best Indian female wrestlers in the 53-55kg category.
- Babita, along with her sister Geeta Phogat and cousin Vinesh Phogat, has made a big difference in the way of thinking of local people, formerly known as female pesticides and honor killings.
- A book based on Phogats's life shows that Babita's parents wanted a son before Babita and her sister Geeta were born. Her father wanted to train his son in wrestling and make him a world wrestler. But after the birth of two daughters, the father broke the stereotype and began to learn the basics of wrestling in the village.
- Sister Phogat shortened the hair in the interview and his father ordered him not to put on makeup. He wanted to focus only on training.
Geeta and Babita Phogat during training session
- The Bollywood film Dangal (2016) was produced on the journey to success with the life of Mahavir Singh Phogat and Babita's sister Geeta. The film became a blockbuster shortly after its release on December 23, 2016, and it became popular with Geeta and Babita in India. Actress Sanya Malhotra played the role of adult Babita in the film, and the young ego was portrayed by Suhani Bhatnagar.
- In an interview, Sister Phogat revealed in an interview that their father Mahavir Singh Phogat is much stricter in training than depicted in the film. They said that sometimes Sister Phogat had a rigorous training schedule to steal the battery from his watch, turn the clock on and reset the alarm clock to have a break.
Geeta and Babita with their father
- Babita had surgery by hand and was released from the hospital four days before the 2010 federal game was played and bagged a silver medal.
Geeta Phogat and Babita Kumari Phogat after her hand surgery
- The Haryana government offered the SI (Sub Inspector) status in the Hariana Police in 2013 after winning the Silver Prize at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
- Narendra Modi PM has praised Babita's work many times.
Narendra Modi congratulates Babita Phogat.
- She takes her fitness very seriously and follows a strict workout.
- In an interview, Babita said the conditions for women in the village were so bad that women including her mother had been holding Ghunghats or veils for a long time. When Sister Phogat became popular, her mother asked for her to carefully lower the agreed veil, but the other women in the area were still courageous.
- In 2015, Babita Kumari Phogat won the Arjuna Award in the sports category.
- She often sees campaigns for Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) in social media accounts.
- Babita loves animals very much.
Babita Kumari Phogat Loves Animals
- In 2019, Babita filed a petition with the Punjab and Haryana High Court to be promoted to the Deputy Superintendent (DSP) of the Hariana Police in accordance with sport quotas. She cited the case of her sister Geeta Phogat, who was appointed DSP by Haryana police in 2016. But her plea was dismissed by Punjab and the Haryana High Court.
