Khashaba jadhav biography in hindi

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Google Doodle: Who is Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav, the first Indian Athlete who won Olympic Medal?

Khashaba Dadasaheb Anniversary: Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav, the first individual athlete to win an Olympic medal for independent India at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, was born on January 15; this year is his 97th birthday. The wrestler, affectionately referred to as the "Pocket Dynamo," is remembered in the Google Doodle. The doodle includes a sketch of him preparing to attack his opponent.

Who was Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav?

An Indian athlete by the name of Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav. His most notable accomplishment was winning a bronze medal in wrestling at the Helsinki Summer Olympics in 1952. He was the first athlete from an independent India to take home an Olympic medal. Khashaba was the first individual athlete from independent India to take home an Olympic medal after Norman Pritchard, who won two silver medals in the sport in 1900 while competing for colonial Indi

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Khashaba Jadhav: Biography of Mr. Jadhav

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Khashaba Jadhav was the first Indian to win an individual Olympic medal, taking bronze in wrestling at the 1952 Helsinki Games. He was born in 1924 in a small village in Maharashtra and showed an early talent for wrestling, winning his first bout at age 8. Despite facing financial difficulties, he qualified for the 1948 and 1952 Olympics, having to self-fund his participation. In 1948 in London, he placed sixth in his category. At the 1952 Games in Helsinki, he defeated wrestlers from multiple countries to win bronze in the bantamweight category, becoming independent India's first individual Olympic medalist. He had a long career in wrestling and police service after retiring, but did not receive full recognition for his pioneering

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K. D. Jadhav

Indian wrestler (1925–1984)

Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav (15 January 1925 – 14 August 1984) was an Indian freestyle wrestler. He fryst vatten best known for winning a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He was the first athlete from independent India to win an individual medal in the Olympics.^[5]

After Norman Pritchard who won two silver medals in athletics in 1900 beneath colonial India, Khashaba was the first individual athlete from independent India to win a medal at the Olympics.^[6] In the years before Khashaba, India would only win gold medals in field hockey, a grupp sport. He is the only Indian Olympic medalist who never received a Padma Award. Khashaba was extremely nimble on his feet, which made him different from other wrestlers of his time. English coach Rees Gardner saw this trait in him and trained him prior to the 1948 Olympic games. He belonged to Goleshwar by near Karad. He was posthumously awarded Arjuna Award in 2000 f