Lalit Kumar is an Indian Kabaddi coach. In December 2023, he was selected for the Dronacharya Award.
Wiki/Biography
Lalit Kumar was born in a village in Delhi. He graduated from Delhi University. During his graduation, he participated in various school-level and national-level wrestling competitions.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′7″
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Lalit Kumar was born into a family of wrestlers in a village in Delhi.
Parents and siblings
Lalit Kumar’s father was a bank clerk and his mother was a housewife.
wife and children
Lalit Kumar has a daughter.
Lalit Kumar with wife and daughter
religion
Lalit Kumar believes in Hinduism.
Profession
After graduation, Lalit started practicing wrestling at his uncle’s Akara Lala Ram Viamshala in Delhi’s Rosh Nala area and started participating in national level wrestling competitions in Delhi in the 63 kg and 68 kg categories and Won many medals in national and university competitions in the 90’s game. However, he had to end his wrestling career due to a knee injury. He didn’t want to give up wrestling, so his uncle suggested he get a wrestling coaching certificate. Later, Lalit pursued a wrestling coaching diploma at the National Institute of Sports (NIS) in Patiala. Lalit revealed in an interview that he didn’t want his family’s wrestling legacy to end after his knee injury, so he decided to pursue a career as a wrestling coach. He said,
I dislocated my knees more times than I should have. In the nineties, surgery was a scary word, especially for players because they said it would be career-ending. But my career ended without the sport as my other brothers had excelled in areas outside of sport, so I still had the desire to keep myself connected to the sport and continue the family legacy. It was then that Tauji asked me to get a coaching certificate from the National Institute of Sports (NIS), Patiala. Coaching is the only way I can still stay connected to the love of my life. ”
Lalit Kumar and Aleksandr Medved at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Minsk, Belarus
In 2006, after completing his diploma in wrestling coaching from the National Sports Institute, Lalit started working as a contracted coach with the Uttar Pradesh government in Bulandshahar. Later, he returned to his uncle’s Lala Ram Vyamshala gym in Delhi. After working in his uncle’s gym for a while, he got a coaching job offer from the Delhi government. In 2010, he started working as a wrestling coach at the Delhi Government’s Singhu Sports Centre. In 2012, he was posted to Chhatrasal and worked there for over 12 years. Over the years, he has coached many famous wrestlers such as Olympic silver medalist Ravi Dahiya and Deepak Punia. He also coached World Championship silver medalist Aman Sehrawat, who won a bronze medal at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.
Lalit Kumar (right) and Ravi Dahiya
Awards
- In September 2021, he was awarded the Best Sports Coach Award in Delhi State.
Lalit Kumar wins Delhi state’s best sports coach award
- On January 9, 2024, Lalit Kumar was awarded the Dronacharya Award for Outstanding Coach in Sports and Games 2023.
Lalit Kumar receives Dronacharya Award from Indian President Drupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi
Facts/Trivia
- In an interview, Lalit talked about his daily life while working at Chhatrasal College in Delhi and revealed that his day starts at 5:00 am in winter and 4:30 am in summer. He also said that he worked a five-hour shift in the morning and a five-hour shift in the evening. He said,
I reach Akara in Chhatrasal at 5 am in winter and 4.30 am in summer, whatever the weather. It was non-negotiable for me, I worked a five hour shift with the wrestlers in the morning and then did my real job until I got back to the office. [wrestling] Another five hours of sleep at three o’clock in the evening. “
Categories: Biography
Source: HIS Education