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| Full name | Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Pocket Dynamo[2] KD | ||||||||||||||
| Citizenship | British Indian (1926–1947) Indian (1947–1984) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 January 1926[3] Satara, Satara district, Bombay Presidency, British India | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 14 August 1984 (aged 58)[4] Karad, Maharashtra, India | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 54 kg (119 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Country |  India | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Rees Gardner | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav, OLY (15 January 1926 – 14 August 1984) was an Indian freestyle wrestler. He is best known for winning a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He was the first athlete from independent India to win an individual medal in the Olympics.[5]
After Norman Pritchard who won two silver medals in athletics in 1900 under colonial India, Khashaba was the first individual athlete from independent India to win a medal at the Olympics.[6] In the years before Khashaba, India would only win gold medals in field hockey, a team sport. He is the only Indian Olympic medalist who never received a Padma Award. Khashaba was extremely nimble on his feet, which made him different from other wrestlers of his time. English coach Rees Gardner saw this trait in him and trained him prior to the 1948 Olympic games. He belonged to Goleshwar village near Karad. He was posthumously awarded Arjuna Award in 2000 for his contribution to wrestling.
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- ^ "Google Translate". translate.google.co.in. Archived from the original on 4 May 2021. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
- ^ "Khashaba Jadhav: Forgotten story of India's first individual Olympic medallist". 31 July 2016. Archived from the original on 21 August 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
- ^ wrestling medals at the Olympics - From KD Jadhav to Sakshi Malik Archived 6 August 2021 at the Wayback Machine Olympics.com. Retrieved 6 August 2021
- ^ Shariff, Faisal."Khashba Jhadhav, the hero we owe an apology to ...," Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine Rediff.com; retrieved 2012-7-20.