Narsingh Yadav
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| Birth name | Narsingh Pancham Yadav | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 India
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6 August 1989 Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India |
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| Occupation | Wrestler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Wrestler Shilpi Sheoran Yadav | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | http://www.narsinghyadav.com/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Narsingh Pancham Yadav (born 6 August 1989) is an Indian wrestler. At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, he won the gold medal in the men's freestyle 74 kg category. He has been banned for 4 years and debarred from the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro by the Court of Arbitration for Sport after the World Anti-Doping Agency appealed against the decision of the National Anti-Doping Agency to allow him to compete even after he failed an doping test testing positive for anabolic steroids which they claimed had been sabotaged by a rival to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Narsingh Yadav is the son of Pancham Yadav and Bhulna Devi from eastern Uttar Pradesh. Narsingh and his brother Vinod both lived with their father Pancham, a milk distributor in Mumbai, while his mother lived in the Neema village in Varanasi district, where she looked after farming in their 2 bigha land. Both the brothers became wrestlers. Yadav has been training since he was 13 and is currently a resident of suburban Jogeshwari in Mumbai. Narsingh is a DSP with the Maharashtra Government.
He won a gold medal in the Asian championships, in freestyle 74 kg, in 2010.
At the Games held at home in New Delhi, India, Narsingh Yadav was a last-minute replacement and competed in the men's freestyle 74 kg category.
He managed to surprise everyone and won the gold medal, beating Richard Brian Addinall of South Africa in the gold medal bout.
In Melbourne, Australia, Narsingh finished second in the Commonwealth Championship and won the silver medal, losing in the final bout to Cleopas Ncube of Canada.
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