Wrestling With Tough Times & Staying Grounded ft. Olympic Medallist Wrestling, Bajrang Punia - Ep. 12

27/08/2022 15 min Temporada 1 Episodio 12

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In this episode, hear our special guest Bajrang Punia, Padma Shri awardee 2019, Olympics medallist and commonwealth gold medallist in wrestling, talk about his schedule for success. Get inspired to stay grounded in the times of triumph and work hard diligently in order to achieve greater heights in life.   

About Bajrang Punia:  Our guest for today’s episode is Bajrang Punia. Recently, in the Birmingham Commonwealth Games Bajrang bagged the gold medal for India in the 65 kg category wrestling final and brought laurels to our nation. This is in fact his second successive gold medal at the Commonwealth games, after he won the first position in Gold Coast, Australia 2018.  He started playing wrestling at the mere age of 7 and what started as a hobby made Bajrang a wrestling champion and the pride of our nation. Because of his spectacular performance in wrestling, he’s been felicitated with awards many times. He’s record stands something like this: - Bronze medal in 2013 Asian wrestling championships  - Silver medal in 2014 Asian wrestling championships  - Silver medal in 2014 Glasgow commonwealth games - Silver medal in 2014 Asian games  - Silver medal in 2017 world U23 wrestling championships  - Gold medal in 2017 Asian wrestling championships  - Bronze medal in 2018 Asian wrestling championships  - Gold medal in 2018 Asian games  - Silver medal in 2018 world wrestling championships  - Gold medal in 2019 Asian wrestling championships - Bronze medal in 2019 world wrestling championships  - Silver medal in 2020 Asian wrestling championships - Bronze medal in 2021 Tokyo olympics - Silver medal in 2021 Asian wrestling championships  And that’s not all, he was given the Arjun Award by the government of India in the year 2015. Then in the year 2019, he was honoured with the Rajiv Gandhi khel Ratna award and Padma Shri by the President of India.

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