We all know women are treated as stay at home slaves especially on those days. Of course in some villages, women are still living in such a superstitious world only. You know from birth the word ‘she’ is known to be a slave to her family and live for her family only till death.
Among such villages, a girl named Geeta phogat proves women can do anything equally to men. Especially in wrestling, she brought a gold medal to our India. What an inspiration to all of us, especially women over here.
Geeta Phogat is a role model to women wrestlers now:
A phogat family is recognized with fame in many news channels today. Now a small kid knows who Geeta phogat is. It’s all because a super hit Bollywood film ‘Dangal’ hit the theatres in 2016. This movie portrays how the Phogat family brought up his kids into wrestling especially in those times of a male-dominated world. You know at those times, wrestlers were known for only men and at those peak times, Mahavir phogat (father of Geeta phogat) framed her daughter as a strong-built wrestler.
Coming to her personal life:
Geeta phogat was born to Mahavir phogat and Daya Kaur on the year 15th Dec 1988. Her native place is Balali village situated near Haryana district. You know Geeta’s father is also a former wrestler. He is a great father who wants his child Geeta to become a leading wrestler and to present India with immense fame especially in Olympics. Mahavir phogat trained her daughters Geeta and Babita in such a way where none of the girls took up a wrestling career. And today Mahavir has become an inspiring example to all the fathers in that village when his daughters won a number of medals in wrestling sports.
Role of Geeta Phogat father in her wrestling career:
Being a former wrestler, Mahavir phogat had trained her daughters with great discipline and patience. His training for his daughters was very difficult and more commanding. Geeta and Babita used to wake up at 3.30 am on their childhood days and used to practice for almost 3 hours at a place named Akhada. After practice, they are even ready to go to school. And soon after they came back from school, Mahavir used to train Geeta and Babita for 3 more hours in the evening hours. This is what Geeta shared about their training from her dad in one of the interviews. Post to that, Geeta also shared that her father always demanded that she and her sister keep on working hard which was the difficult phase in her life of around five to six years at those times.
Geeta Phogat achievements:
She won the gold medal in 2009 commonwealth wrestling especially in the 55 kg freestyle wrestling category conducted in Jalandhar, Punjab. This is the best achievement in her life where this win took her into the limelight that she got qualified in 2010 commonwealth games organized in Delhi.
Another outstanding achievement in her track record is; she is the first wrestler who won the gold medal in the 2010 commonwealth games in New Delhi. And this achievement turned Geeta’s career to an extreme level. With this achievement, she inspired and changed the future of many women in her native village that brought up the number of women wrestlers.
In the 2011 commonwealth games organized in Melbourne, she has kept another gold medal in her records.
In 2012 she qualified for the London Olympics and won another gold medal at Astana Kazakhstan. She is the first female wrestler who qualified for the Olympics from India.
Geeta won bronze medals too:
In 2012, she won the bronze medal at WWC (world wrestling championships) conducted in Strathcona county in Canada. In Asian wrestling championships, she won bronze there.
In 2015, she again won bronze in the Asian wrestling championships only that are organized in Doha. It is her last medal as a wrestler to present India.
In 2013, she won the silver medal in the 59kg event wrestling category conducted in CWC (commonwealth championships) Johannesburg. It is a high-weight category. It is such a splendid victory for a woman wrestler.
Her achievements history conveys how her passion has made history in the wrestling category so far.
Inspiring lines about Geeta Phogat:
You know there are no words to portray her struggles, hard work, and dedication to follow her passion with the guidance of her father. In short, she is an inspiration to today’s young winning female wrestlers.
By Swaroopa Manthri
