- “ Kumari ” - the traditional ending of the nominal formula for an unmarried girl in northern India [1] , is not a surname.
Babita Pogat ( Hindi बबीता फौगाट , English Babita Phogat ; born November 20, 1989 ) is an Indian wrestler. Prize winner of the Commonwealth Games 2010 and 2014. Bronze medalist World Championships 2012 and Asia 2013 . Participant in the 2016 Olympic Games . She was awarded the Indian Arjun Prize for consistently high sporting achievements. According to her biography, the film “ Dangal ” was shot.
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Biography
Babita was born on November 20, 1989 in the village of Balali, Bhivani district , Haryana . Her parents are a former member of the Indian national team wrestling and his wife Daya. Babita has a younger brother and three sisters: Gita , and Sangita. Her father also took custody of his dead brother's two daughters: Vinesh and [2] . Babita, like her older sister Gita, received a bachelor's degree from Bhivani State College for Girls. Their father, inspired in 2000 by the example of Karnam Malleshwari , the first Indian woman to win the Olympic medal, decided that his daughters should also become athletes, and began to train Gita, and then the others. This undertaking has been condemned by local residents, who believe that the struggle is not a woman’s business, and the Pogat sisters will not be able to get married because of this [3] .
Criticism of the villagers stopped only after the first serious victories. In 2005–2006, Babita won silver and gold at the Asian Wrestling Cadet Championship [4] . In 2007 - silver at the World Junior Championships, losing in the final to the American [5] .
After that, she began to perform in the main age category with a weight of up to 51 kg, at first not showing much success. At the World Championships in 2009, she lost to Moldavian [6] in the quarterfinals, but earned gold at the Commonwealth Championship of the same year [7] . In 2010, Babita lost to Japanese in the fight for third place in the Asian Championships [8] and Polka Roksana Zasina in the first fight at the World Championships [9] . But she was able to bring her country a silver medal of the Commonwealth games and a gold medal of the Commonwealth championship next year [10] .
Babita did not qualify for the Olympics in London , taking only 5th place in the qualifying tournament. In return, she won two bronze medals at the World Championships of this [11] and Asian Championships of the next year [12] , as well as the gold medal of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow . In the future, Babita took fifth place at the Asian Games in Inchon and at the Asian Championships in Doha , losing in the fight for bronze to Chinese woman and Zhuldyz Eshimova from Kazakhstan, respectively [13] [14] .
To get to the Olympics in 2016 , Babita took part in the Asian qualifying tournament, where she won bronze, which, however, did not allow her to go to competitions in Rio de Janeiro [15] . A month later, she tried again in the global tournament in Istanbul , but dropped out in the quarter-finals, losing to the American Helen Marulis [16] . However, after the Mongolian athlete who won the Asian tournament was disqualified, her reservation for the Olympics was given to Babita [17] . Unfortunately, at the competitions she lost in the first tournament of the Greek Maria Prevolaraki [18] .
At the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast (Australia), Babita ranked second, losing in the last match to Canadian Diane Waker [19] .
Notes
- ↑ Ernst Eichler. Namenforschung / Name Studies / Les noms propres . - Mouton De Gruyter, 1995. - P. 676. - 977 p. - ISBN 978-3110114263 .
- ↑ Hina Rajpal. Stories Of Sisterhood: The Phogat Sisters (English) . The Huffington Post (19 August 2015). The appeal date is September 2, 2016.
- ↑ Ashwin Ferro. Geeta Kumari's sister star Babita could be a Friday star (Eng.) . Mid-Day (August 8, 2010). The appeal date is September 4, 2016.
- ↑ Babita wins gold medal . The Tribune (12 August 2006). The appeal date is September 4, 2016.
- ↑ Wrestlers Medal at Junior World Championships (English) . Wrestlegirl.com (29 August 2007). The appeal date is September 4, 2016.
- Ame Ramesh Kumar bronze in World Wrestling (Eng.) . Rediff.com (September 24, 2009). The appeal date is September 4, 2016.
- ↑ 2009 Commonwealth Championships (English) (inaccessible link) . Commonwealth Wrestling Association (21 December 2009). The appeal date is September 4, 2016. Archived October 22, 2013.
- ↑ Women grapplers win two bronze in Asian Wrestling (Eng.) . The Times of India (14 May 2010). Archived May 19, 2010.
- ↑ Zapaśnicze MŚ: Matkowska i Zasina walczą o brąz (Polish) . INTERIA (September 8, 2010). The appeal date is September 4, 2016.
- ↑ RESULTS - 2011 Championships (English) (inaccessible link) . Commonwealth Wrestling Association (6 August 2011). The date of circulation is September 4, 2016. Archived March 13, 2016.
- ↑ Geeta wins India's second bronze in World Championship (Eng.) . Sportskeeda (29 September 2012). The appeal date is September 3, 2016.
- ↑ Official Results Book of Asian Wrestling Championships 2013 (English) (inaccessible link) . FILA (April 2013). The date of circulation is September 4, 2016. Archived September 24, 2015.
- ↑ Ashish Magotra. Asian Games Day 9 as it happened: Yogeshwar clinches wrestling gold; India bag four medals in athletics (English) . Firstpost (September 28, 2014). The appeal date is September 4, 2016.
- ↑ Wrestlers Sakshi, Lalita Bag Bronze (English) . The New Indian Express (May 9, 2015). The appeal date is September 4, 2016.
- Ber Three Bronze Medal for Indian Wrestlers at Asian Qualification Championships (English) . Firstpost (18 March 2016). The appeal date is September 4, 2016.
- ↑ Rick Maese. Rockville wrestler Helen Maroulis qualifies for Rio Olympics (Eng.) . The Washington Post (23 April 2016). The appeal date is September 4, 2016.
- ↑ Babita Kumari set to be pardoned and compete at Rio 2016 Olympics (English) . The Indian Express (13 May 2016). The appeal date is September 4, 2016.
- ↑ Babita Kumari loses 1-5, fails to make repechage stage: As it happened (Eng.) . The Indian Express (18 August 2016). The appeal date is September 4, 2016.
- ↑ Babita settles for silver at CWG (English) . The Hindu BusinessLine (12 April 2018). The appeal date is April 6, 2019.
Links
- Babita Pogat - Olympic statistics on Sports-Reference.com (Eng.)
- Babita Pogat - profile on the International Wrestling Database (English)