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Sushil Kumar

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Sushil Kumar is a world champion freestyle wrestler for India. He is regarded as the greatest wrestler in Indian history winning 2 Olympic medals as well as a world title in 2010.

Kumar won a bronze medal at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and won silver in 2012 where he lost to Japan’s Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu in the finals.

He competed in the 66kg weight class for a majority of his career but moved up to 74kg for the later part of his career.

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