14 Facts About Yogeshwar Dutt

Yogeshwar Dutt was born on 2 November 1982 and is an Indian freestyle wrestler.

Yogeshwar Dutt was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2013.

Yogeshwar Dutt won gold medals at the 2010 and the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Yogeshwar Dutt first started wrestling at the age of eight in his native village and idolised Balraj Pehlwan.

Yogeshwar Dutt had lost his father on 3 August 2006 just nine days before he boarded the flight to Doha for the Asian Games.

Yogeshwar Dutt sustained a knee injury, but despite all the emotional and physical trauma he managed to win the bronze in the 60 kg category at the 15th Asian Games at Doha.

On his way to the final, Yogeshwar Dutt went past Australian Farzad Tarash, South African Marius Loots and England's Sasha Madyarchyk before winning the gold.

On 12 August 2012, Yogeshwar Dutt provided a late boost to India's medals tally in the 2012 London Olympics by claiming a bronze in the Men's freestyle 60 kg, becoming only the third Indian wrestler to win an Olympic medal after K D Jadhav in 1952 and Sushil Kumar in 2008 and 2012.

Yogeshwar Dutt had defeated North Korean Ri Jong-Myong in the bronze medal bout thus winning the fifth medal for Indian contingent at the London Olympics 2012.

Yogeshwar Dutt got a chance to contest in the repechage rounds as Kudukhov reached the finals of the event.

Yogeshwar Dutt got lucky against his opponent, winning the toss on both the occasions to earn a clinch position.

Yogeshwar Dutt finally beat his North Korean opponent to clinch the bronze medal.

Yogeshwar Dutt was exceptional in the last round, and clinched it in just 1:02 minutes.

Yogeshwar Dutt defeated Jinhyok Kang of North Korea in the quarterfinal.