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Babita Phogat

Commonwealth gold medallist wrestler; daughter of Mahavir Singh Phogat.

Babita Phogat is an Indian freestyle wrestler from Haryana, daughter of coach Mahavir Singh Phogat, and one of the sisters at the centre of the family whose story inspired the 2016 Hindi film Dangal. She won gold at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games in the 55 kg category and silver at the 2010 Delhi Games.

She has medalled at the Commonwealth Wrestling Championships and the Asian Wrestling Championships, and has been a long-time public figure in Indian wrestling. She has been awarded the Arjuna Award.

Babita's stage sessions turn on the Phogat family experiment - daughters trained for international wrestling in a rural Haryana that did not expect it - and the transfer of that discipline to careers, teams, and parenting beyond sport.

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  • The Phogat family story
  • Daughters, training, and rural India
  • Long-horizon coaching
  • Wrestling and the mental game
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