Kiran Bishnoi is an Indian freestyle wrestler from India. She won a gold medal at the 2017 Commonwealth Wrestling Championships and a bronze medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. She won a bronze medal at the 2022 Asian Games.
Wiki/Biography
Kiran Bishnoi, also known as Kiran Godara, was born in 1998 (age 25 as of 2023) in Rawat Hera village, Hisar district, Haryana. She joined Mahabir Stadium in Hisar and practiced wrestling with designated coach Vishnu Das.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′ 5″
Weight (approximately): 76kg
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Parents and siblings
Her father Kuldeep Godara is a clerk in the Hisar district commissioner’s office. Her mother’s name is Sunita Godala. She spent most of her childhood living with her maternal grandparents in Kalilavan village in Hisar district, Haryana. Her maternal grandfather Ramswaroop Khichad Kalirawna was a wrestler and Kiran Bishnoi took inspiration and interest from him to start her wrestling career. She had practiced with him. Her grandfather died in 2010. In the same year, Kiran Bishnoi returned to live with his parents in Hisar. Not much information is available about her siblings.
Kiran Bishnoi’s family
husband and children
She is unmarried.
religion
She follows Hinduism.
Profession
In 2013, she missed the wrestling trials for the 2014 Commonwealth Games due to a knee injury. After rehabbing her knee in 2015, she won the national wrestling championship. Kiran Bishnoi started wrestling in 2009 in her hometown Kali Rawan. In 2011, she participated in the National Junior Wrestling Championships in Jammu and won a bronze medal. In 2012, she also won the junior wrestling championship in the 67kg category at the National Junior Wrestling Championships in Jammu. She also won a bronze medal at the 2013 Asian Junior Championships in Kazakhstan. Kiran Bishnoi became the first Indian woman wrestler to win a freestyle 76kg medal at the Commonwealth Games. In an interview, she talked about her wrestling career and said:
When I started wrestling at the insistence of my maternal grandfather Ram Swarup, I knew nothing about the sport. Wrestling ka koi idea hi nahi tha. At that time Mr. Sushil won the bronze medal in the Beijing Olympics and I would watch his technical moves and practice them. Later I joined Mahavir Stadium in Hisar under coach Vishnu Das and we would train with the boys. No Indian female wrestler has won a medal in the CWG 76kg category and when I won the medal Sushil sir congratulated me which meant a lot to me. My grandfather passed away in 2010, but if he were alive today, he would be proud to receive this medal. ”
Kiran Bishnoi (far right) with the women’s wrestling team at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Kiran Bishnoi with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Awards, Honors, Achievements
title
- She won the Bharat Kesri Dangal title in 2016 and was a finalist in 2015.
medal
gold
- Kiran Bishnoi wins gold medal at Commonwealth Wrestling Championships 2017 in Johannesburg.
bronze
- In 2013, Kiran Bishnoi won a bronze medal at the Asian Junior Championships in Kazakhstan.
- Kiran Bishnoi beats Mauritius’s Katuskia Parry at the 2018 Commonwealth Games after losing to Nigeria due to a technical fall in the 76kg women’s wrestling semi-finals Adhavan, won the bronze medal.
Kiran Bishnoi wins bronze medal at Commonwealth Games 2018
- She won a bronze medal at the 2022 Asian Games.
Facts/Trivia
- Kiran Bishnoi walks the ramp as a performer at the 2018 PowerWalk event on March 7, 2018.
Our next superstar is Kiran Godara: Female Wrestler, 2017 Commonwealth Championship Gold Medalist #PowerWalk2018 Proudly made by #investmentlife pass @square_106 pic.twitter.com/cg9yij1jhR
— PowerWalk and Plaza (@Plaza_106) March 7, 2018
- In 2021, Kiran Bishnoi lost the bronze medal in the women’s 76kg category at the World Wrestling Championships in Oslo, Norway.
- On October 6, 2023, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter to congratulate Kiran Bishnoi for winning the bronze medal in the 76kg category of women’s freestyle wrestling at the Asian Games. The tweet read,
Wrestling at the Asian Games achieves greater glory again!
Congratulations to Kiran Bishnoi for winning the bronze medal in the women’s wrestling 76kg freestyle category. My best wishes for her future endeavors. pic.twitter.com/VTXGAyq0hd
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) October 6, 2023
Categories: Biography
Source: HIS Education