In Pics: India's wrestling history in Olympic Games
Wrestling as a sporting discipline has been part of the Olympic Games since 1896. Independent India won their first Olympic medal through wrestling with the legendary KD Jadhav winning the men's 57kg freestyle bronze medal in the 1952 Helsinki Games. Since then India have won five Olympic medals through the sport of wrestling. In these collection of pictures, we take a look at history of Indian wrestling at the Olympic Games with the Tokyo Games set to get underway on July 23.
Sakshi Malik was first female wrestler to win Olympic medal
Yogeshwar Dutt is India's third Olympic medallist
Yogeshwar Dutt became India's third Olympic medallist in wrestling with a bronze at 2012 London Games. Wrestler Sushil Kumar, who accused for murder of a fellow wrestler, has won two medals in Olympics in 2008 and 2012 Games. Yogeshwar won bronze in men's freestyle 60kg category and was subsequently awarded the Padma Shri in 2013. (Photo: SAI Media)