Geetika Jakhar
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| Nationality | Indian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Agroha, Haryana, India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Hisar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 159 cm (5 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 63 Kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Freestyle wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 63 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Geetika Jakhar is an Indian wrestler. She is the only women wrestler in the history of Indian sports to be judged the Best Wrestler of the 2005 Commonwealth Games and also a lone Indian women wrestler two times medalist of Asian Games 2006 and 2014 respectively. For her extraordinary achievements in the field of sports, the government of Haryana has appointed her to the post of Deputy Superintendent of Police in 2008.
Geetika's father Satyavir Singh Jakhar is a sports officer in Hisar, Haryana. She was inspired to take up wrestling by her grand father, Ch. Amar Chand Jakhar, an accomplished wrestler himself. She started wrestling at the tender age of 13, and was awarded the Bharat Kesari at the age of 15 by beating Sonika Kaliraman the then bharat kesari in a dangal held at New Delhi in 2000. She won the Bharat Kesari title for a consecutive 9 years from then on. She is married to Mr.Kamaldeep Singh Rana, who is working in Haryana public work department as a Sub Divisional Engineer.
Geetika was actively participating in sports at a school level with her focus being athletics. But the turning point came when her family moved from her native village Agroha to Hisar to provide a better education for her younger brother and her. In an attempt to competitively pursue athletics, her father had taken her to the Mahabir Stadium in Hisar but they returned disappointed without finding any coach.During this she went to the nearby wrestling hall hearing huge voice coming from hall as coaches guide their ward from outside of the mat with a loud voice, young Geetika was drawn to other girls practicing wrestling. She immediately fell in love with the sport and from October 1998, she chose wrestling as her sport, leaving athletics. It took her four months after discovering wrestling when she represented Haryana at the 1999 National Games in Manipur and finished fourth.
She became the youngest wrestler to win a gold medal in all editions of the 2001 National Championships: Sub-Junior, Junior and Senior - an admirable record that has yet to be broken. By this she completed her GOLDEN QUARTET.
Completed Golden Quartet lone wrestler to do so.
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