Ravi Kumar Dahiya, the 57kg freestyle grappler is a Tokyo Olympics semifinalist now and proper one step a long way from changing into proper the fourth wrestler from India after KD Jadhav, Sushil Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt to elevate residence an Olympic medal. Since Delhi’s Chhatrasal Stadium was his working in opposition to ground for years, it is no surprise that the now unhealthy Sushil Kumar and 2012 London Olympics bronze medallist Yogeshwar Dutt are his role-gadgets.
“Sushil had won the Olympic medals after I came. It’s continuously staunch to have an inspiration and put together below a staunch wrestler. It’s better that he’s right here and can detect me steal medals,” Dahiya is quoted as asserting by scroll.in.
His accommodation at Chhatrasal was as soon as extinct by Yogeshwar Dutt, who’s now a baby-kisser after quitting engrossing wrestling. Dahiya has been working in opposition to at Chhatrasal since 2009 and hasn’t been residence for quite loads of days since he began working in opposition to there.
“My room right here extinct to be Yogeshwar Dutt’s. It was built for him. He won an Olympic medal from this room. After he left Chhatrasal stadium, I was given this room. It feels good to be pleased in the identical room,” he added.
In the early phase of 2020, the Olympics fourth-seeded wrestler went to the Russian Federation to put along side coach Murad Gaidarov.
“In Russia, I’m practising and dealing in opposition to with better and stronger wrestlers. Day after day I’m combating fresh wrestlers, and I’m studying a thing or two on each day basis. Coach Murad is working in opposition to me in every skill that that you must to well be ready to mediate. He’s striking fresh challenges earlier than me on each day basis and or no longer it is making me stronger as a wrestler and improving my methodology,” Dahiya acknowledged closing yr.
Hailing from Nahri village in Sonipat in Haryana, wrestling was what Dahiya was supposed to develop from a younger age. It’s the identical village from which 2013 World Championships silver medal-winning wrestler Amit Dahiya emerged.
He was billed for greatness since his silver medal at junior world championships and he has devoted his complete existence to wrestling since then. In truth, Dahiya did no longer even have the standard luxurious of a cellular phone until 2015.
The 2020 and 2021 Asian champion and 2019 World Championships bronze medallist will now be gunning for an Olympic medal when he takes on Kazakhstan’s Nurislam Sanayev in the 57kg semifinal conflict on Wednesday from 245pm IST onwards.
