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Sandeep Tomar
Sandeep Tomar is an Indian former freestyle wrestler. Tomar represented India in the men's 57 kg event at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Sandeep Tulsi Yadav
Sandeep Tulsi Yadav is an Indian Greco-Roman wrestler who competes in the 66 kg division. He became the first Indian to win a medal in Greco-Roman wrestling at the world level when he won bronze at the 2013 World Wrestling Championships in the same division. He defeated Aleksandar Maksimović of Serbia in the bronze medal match.
Sangeeta Phogat
The Phogat sisters are six sisters from Haryana, India, all of whom are wrestlers. In order of their birth, they are Geeta, Babita, Priyanka, Ritu, Vinesh, and Sangeeta. Geeta, Babita, Ritu, and Sangeeta are daughters of former wrestler and coach Mahavir Singh Phogat.
Sanjay Kumar
Sanjay Kumar (born 23 December 1967) is a former freestyle wrestler from India. He became Commonwealth Champion twice, along with finishing runner-up in the 1989 South Asian Games. Although wrestling was not part of the 1990 Commonwealth Games, United World Wrestling conducted the event for the same in 1991, in which Kumar won gold medal.
Sanjay Kumar
Sanjay Kumar is an Indian wrestler. Date of birth: 1983-12-31 Height: 172 cm Weight: 84 kg Club: Army Sportsclub Delhi Coach: Hargobind Singh, 1997 Profession: he is serving in the army At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, he won a gold in the Men's Greco-Roman 74 kg wrestling.
Sarita
Sarita Mor (born 16 April 1995) is an Indian freestyle wrestler.
Satpal Singh
Satpal Singh (born 1 February 1955), also known as Guru Satpal, is a wrestling coach and former wrestler of India. He was a gold medalist in 1982 Asian Games and a bronze medalist in 1974 Asian Games. Today he is better known as the coach of Olympic medal winners Sushil Kumar and Ravi Kumar Dahiya.
Satyawan
Satyawan (born 25 November 1964) is an Indian wrestler. He competed in the men's freestyle 68 kg at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Satyawart Kadian
Satyawart Kadian (born 9 November 1993) is an Indian wrestler. He first represented India at the inaugural 2010 Youth Olympics where he won a bronze medal in the boys' freestyle 100 kg category. He then represented India in the 2014 Commonwealth Games and won a silver medal in the 97 kg weight class.
Seema Bisla
Seema Bisla (born 14 April 1993) also known as Seema, is an Indian wrestler. She is a bronze medalist at the Asian Wrestling Championships. She represented India at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Shankarrao Thorat
Shankarrao Thorat (12 December 1909 – September 1983) was an Indian wrestler. He competed in the men's freestyle bantamweight at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Shilpi Sheoran
Shilpi Sheoran Yadav (born 31 May 1989) is an Indian freestyle wrestler.
Shivani Pawar
Shivani Pawar (born 11 December 1998) is an Indian wrestler from Umreth Village, Chhindwara district, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Somveer Kadian
Somveer Kadian (born 2 April 1992) is an Indian freestyle wrestler who won a bronze medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the 86 kg category. Somveer's brother Satyawart is also a freestyle wrestler and a silver medalist at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Sonam Malik
Sonam Malik (born 15 April 2002) is an Indian woman wrestler from Sonipat, Haryana. She won a gold medal at the National Games, and two gold medals at the World Cadet Wrestling Championship. She won a bronze in 62 kg in the 2022 Asian Games.
Sonika Kaliraman
Sonika Kaliraman is an Indian woman professional wrestler to win the title of Bharat Kesri in Bharat Kesri Dangal in 2001. She was a contestant on the popular reality show Bigg Boss in 2011.
Subhash Verma
Subhash Verma is a retired Indian wrestler born on 15 July 1968 at village Malakpur, Baghpat, UP. Verma was trained at the Hanuman Akhara (wrestling school) of Delhi. He was a very famous pupil of Guru Hanuman.
Sudesh Kumar
Sudesh Kumar (born 10 March 1950) is an Indian former wrestler who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics and in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Sujeet Maan
Sujeet Maan (Hindi: सुजीत मान; born 15 December 1978 in New Delhi) is a retired amateur Indian freestyle wrestler, who competed in the men's middleweight category. He achieved top six finishes in the 74-kg division at the Asian Games (1998 and 2002), produced a stark tally of four medals (one silver and three bronze) at the Asian Wrestling Championships, and also represented his nation India at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Before his sporting career ended in 2006, Maan trained full-time for Guru Hanuman Wrestling Club in his native New Delhi, under his coach and mentor Maha Singhrao.
Suman Kundu
Suman Kundu is a wrestler from India who won a bronze medal in women's wrestling in the 63 kg freestyle category at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Kundu hails from Kalwa in the Jind district of Haryana.
Sumit Malik
Sumit Malik (born 9 January 1993) is a freestyle wrestler from India who competes in 125 kg category. He was gold medallist at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. He has also been silver medalist at both the Asian Wrestling Championships and the Commonwealth Wrestling Championship in 2017.
Sunil Dutt
Sunil Dutt (born 9 December 1967) is an Indian wrestler. He competed in the men's freestyle 48 kg at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Udey Chand
Udey Chand (born 25 June 1935) is a retired Indian wrestler and wrestling coach. He is the first Indian to won a medal at world wrestling championships in 1961. He was awarded the first Arjuna Award in wrestling in 1961 by Government of India.
Vijay Chaudhary
ACP Vijay Chaudhary is an Indian wrestler and three-time winner of the most prestigious Maharashtra Kesari title. He won this award thrice in a row 2014, 2015, and 2016, becoming only the second wrestler to achieve this feat after Narsing Yadav. He also led the Puneri Paltan in to victory in the star studded Inaugural Season of Zee Maharashtra Kusti League in 2019.
Vinod Kumar
Vinod Kumar (born 15 August 1965) is an Indian wrestler. He competed in the men's freestyle 57 kg at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Vinod Kumar Dahiya
Vinod Kumar Dahiya (born 7 August 1986) is an Indian-born Australian former wrestler who competed in Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling. Dahiya was selected to represent Australia at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro after securing an Olympic qualification place in the 66 kg Greco-Roman event at the 2016 African & Oceania Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament. However, Dahiya never competed at an Olympic Games.
Virender Singh
Virender Thakran (born 1970) is a former Indian wrestler. He won a bronze medal in the World Wrestling Championship in 1992 at Cali. He won a silver medal in Commonwealth Championship in 1995 (Senior, 74 kg, Freestyle).
Virender Singh
Virender Singh Yadav (not to be confused with Virender Sehwag) (born 1 April 1986) is an Indian freestyle wrestler. Competing in the 74 kg weight division, he has won 3 Deaflympics Gold Medals and a bronze medal in 4 appearances. He won gold medals at 2005 Summer Deaflympics (Melbourne, Australia), 2013 Summer Deaflympics (Sofia, Bulgaria) and 2017 Summer Deaflympics (Samsun, Turkey).
Yogeshwar Dutt
Yogeshwar Dutt (born 2 November 1982) is a former Indian wrestler. At the 2012 London Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the 60 kg freestyle event. He was conferred the Arjuna Award in 2009, Khel Ratna in 2012 and the Padma Shri in 2013 by the Government of India.