Yogeshwar Dutt's Olympic Journey

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India sent her athletic best to the 2012 London Olympics, in her glorious name hoping they would bring back the honor and respect she deserves. While it was a very disappointing turn of events for some at the Summer Olympics, a handful of others did their country justice by taking home a medal each. Off the few who made India truly proud, wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt was one who stood out prominently.

Though he missed the coveted gold, he secured two souvenirs from his legendary game that day- a beautiful, shiny bronze medal and an equal stunner of a black eye. He fought not one, but three heats, one after another, to finally claim that bronze his own. When he stood there on the podium, his heart had ebbed over with happiness, not just at winning his country a prized bronze, but also because he was able to fulfill his late father’s dying wish.

The victory at the Olympics was indeed a dream come true for this grappler hailing from Sonepat. Wrestling from the very young age of eight, he overcame odds, fighting legends, crushing them and reducing them to pleaders of mercy, to get where he is now- at the pinnacle of ...
... his career. Though it was a bronze that he claimed at the Olympics, Yogeshwar Dutt profile has its fair share of gold medals as well. Starting from the starting point of his professional career, his very first gold made an appearance when he won the 2003 Commonwealth Wrestling Championship. He procured gold at the Commonwealth Wrestling Championship held at Cape Town in 2005 followed by another one in the 60kg freestyle category of the Commonwealth Wrestling Championship at London in 2007. In the year 2006, tragedy struck Dutt in the form of his father’s demise and a knee injury. In spite of this mental and physical turmoil, he managed to take home a bronze at the 15th Asian Games held in Doha, Qatar. Then began the 2010 Commonwealth Games, where Dutt, in all his glory, won the prestigious gold medal for India.

Dutt has taken part in three Olympic Games so far. Though the 2004 and 2008 Olympic events were not that successful for Dutt, his hard work and dedication finally paid off when he won the bronze at the third and the most recent Olympic Games. Yogeshwar Dutt statistics has one more honour to show for his sterling performance this year- the gold he won at the Asian Wrestling Championships in Gumi.