Khashaba Jadhav

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Wrestling

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Olympic Summer Games
bronze 1952 Helsinki 57 kg

Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav (born January 15, 1926 in Goleshwar near Karad , † August 14, 1984 in Karad) was an Indian freestyle wrestler who won the bronze medal in bantamweight at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki .

Career

Jadhav grew up in poor conditions in the village of Goleshwar near Karad in the Indian state of Maharashtra . He learned wrestling from his father, who also played this sport.

Trained by Rees Gardner , a former US wrestler world champion, Jadhav started at the 1948 Olympic Games in London in the flyweight up to 52 kg. After victories in the first two rounds, he only had to admit defeat to Iranian Mansour Raisi in the quarter-finals and finally finished 6th.

Four years later, Jadhav had to fight to participate in the 1952 Olympics . He lamented nepotism and had to rely on the support of the Maharajah of Patiala to be nominated for the Helsinki Games. There he competed in the bantam weight up to 57 kg and reached the final round after three wins. Jadhav lost after a hard fight against the later Olympic champion Shōhachi Ishii from Japan and had to compete against Rəşid Məmmədbəyov (Soviet Union) within the next half hour . A protest against this appointment would have been possible, but no Indian official was present. So the favored Jadhav lost this fight and had to be content with the bronze medal. After India's independence in 1949, this was the first (and for a long time only) Olympic medal awarded by an Indian individual athlete. It was not until 1996 that tennis player Leander Paes was able to win a medal in an individual sport for India again at the Atlanta Games .

After his active career, Jadhav worked in the Maharashtra Police Department from 1955 and retired in 1983 as Assistant Superintendent of Police . On August 14, 1984, he was killed in a traffic accident.

honors and awards

In 2000, KD Jadhav was posthumously awarded the Arjuna Award , an Indian sports prize for outstanding athletic performance. His son Ranjit Jadhav campaigns for further awards from his father. In particular, he considers it appropriate to award KD Jadhav the Padma Vibhushan - the second highest Indian civil merit order.

In the run-up to the wrestling competitions of the Commonwealth Games 2010 , which took place in the Indira Gandhi sports complex in New Delhi , a newly built wrestling hall was dedicated to Jadhav. The KD Jadhav Wrestling Stadium seats 6,000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Other sources name November 15th ?!
  2. ↑ Anshul Gandhi: The story of KD Jadhav aka 'Pocket Dynamo' who won India's first individual Olympic Medal. In: MensXP.com. June 7, 2016, archived from the original on June 15, 2016 ; accessed on November 29, 2018 (English).
  3. ↑ a b New wrestling stadium named as KD Jadhav Wrestling Stadium. Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, July 6, 2010, accessed November 29, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Saurabh: ओलंपिक में देश के लिए पहला मेडल लाने वाले पहलवान को घर गिरवी रखना पड़ा था. In: thelallantop.com. August 14, 2018. Retrieved November 29, 2018 (Hindi).
  5. ↑ Dhruv George: KD Jadhav's son irritated by MS Dhoni's Padma Bhushan nomination, wants Padma Vibhushan for father. In: sportskeeda.com. September 21, 2017, accessed November 29, 2018 .
  6. ↑ The KISG venues. In: pressreader.com. February 1, 2018, accessed November 29, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Jadhav, Khashaba
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jadhav, Khashaba Dadasaheb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Goleshwar with Karad
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1984
Place of death Karad