Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav
Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav was born in Karad, Maharashtra, India on January 15th, 1926 and is the Olympic Wrestler. At the age of 58, Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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His father Dadasaheb was a wrestling coach and he initiated Khashaba into wrestling at the age of five. His wrestling mentors in college were Baburao Balawde and Belapuri Guruji. His success in wrestling did not avoid him from getting good grades. He participated in quit India movement.He resolved to unfurl the tri-color flag in Olympics on Independence Day 15 August 1947.
Starting his wrestling career in 1948, he first came into lime-light at the 1948 London Olympics when he finished 6th in the flyweight category. He was the first Indian to achieve such a high a position in the individual category until 1948. Despite being new to wrestling on a mat as well as the international rules of wrestling, Jadhav’s 6th-place finish was no mean feat at that time.
For the next four years, Jadhav trained even harder for the Helsinki Olympics where he moved up one weight category and participated in the bantamweight category (57 kg) which saw wrestlers from twenty-four different countries. He went on to defeat wrestlers from countries like Mexico, Germany and Canada, before losing his semi-final bout, but he came back stronger to win the bronze medal which made him the first ever individual Olympic medalist of independent India.
- He was honoured by making him a part of the torch run at the 1982 Asian Games in Delhi
- The Maharashtra Government awarded the Chhatrapati Puraskar posthumously in 1992-1993.
- He was posthumously honoured with the Arjuna Award in 2000.
- The newly built wrestling venue for the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games was named after him to honour his achievement.