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Babita is the younger sister of Geeta Phogat, who won India's first gold medal in women's wrestling at the Commonwealth Games. Babita is the daughter of wrestler and Dronacharya Award recipient Mahavir Singh Phogat. She has a cousin Vinesh Phogat who also won gold, in the 48 kg category, at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Mahavir Singh Phogat (father) The Phogat sisters are six sisters from Haryana, India, all of whom are wrestlers. In order of their birth, they are Geeta, Babita, Priyanka, Ritu, Vinesh, and Sangeeta. [1]
Babita, along with her sister Geeta Phogat and cousin Vinesh Phogat, has brought a major change in the mindsets of the people of her region, which was earlier known for female feticide and honour killing.
Babita, in 2012, became only the second female wrestler (first being her sister Geeta Phogat) from India to win a medal at world championships, where the duo won Bronze medals. Parents of Geeta and Babita Phogat With the Medals of their daughters
Geeta Phogat was born in Balali village of Charkhi Dadri district, Haryana. Her father Mahavir Singh Phogat, a former wrestler himself and a Dronacharya Award recipient, is also her coach. Her sister Babita Kumari and cousin Vinesh Phogat are also Commonwealth Games gold medalists.
The Phogat sisters comprise Geeta, Babita, Ritu and Sangeeta. They are the daughters of coach Mahavir Singh Phogat. Priyanka and Vinesh Phogat are their cousins but were raised by Mahavir after their father Rajpal died when they were young. Geeta and Babita Phogat kick it off
While Geeta Phogat is a legend in Indian wrestling, the one who paved the way for a generation of women wrestlers in an otherwise male-dominated sport, her younger sister Babita Kumari Phogat is similarly heralded.
Dec 24, 2016 · Babita Kumari represented India at the Rio Olympics earlier this year. When Babita Kumari became only the fourth female wrestler in the country to qualify for Olympics, her name was etched in the history books. She was only the third Phogat sister to do so after Geeta and Vinesh.
Jun 16, 2021 · Babita Kumari is the younger sister of Geeta Phogat and has bagged the gold medal in the 2014 Commonwealth games. She went on to win the silver medals in the 2010 and 2018 Commonwealth Games and also bagged the bronze at the 2012 World Wrestling Championship in 51kg freestyle category before joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2019.
Jan 21, 2017 · Geeta, 28, and her younger sister, Babita, 26, have suddenly found themselves poster girls for a new kind of Indian woman, a woman who seeks the same opportunities in life as men, including...
