Ritu Phogat
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| Nationality | India | ||||||||||||
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2 May 1994 Balali, Haryana, India |
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| Height | 156 cm (5 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 45 kg (99 lb) | ||||||||||||
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| Country | India | ||||||||||||
| Sport | Freestyle wrestling | ||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 48 kg | ||||||||||||
| Coached by | Mahavir Singh Phogat | ||||||||||||
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Ritu Phogat (born 2 May 1994) is an Indian female wrestler who won a gold medal at the 2016 Commonwealth Wrestling Championship.
Ritu Phogat is the third daughter of former wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat and started training under her father at the age of eight. She dropped out of school after tenth grade in order to focus on her wrestling career.
Her sisters Geeta Phogat and Babita Kumari as well as cousin Vinesh Phogat are all Commonwealth Games gold medalists in wrestling. Another cousin of her, Priyanka Phogat, is also an international level wrestler.
Her younger sister, Sangita Phogat is also a wrestler.
In October 2016, Phogat won her second consecutive title at the annual National Wrestling Championships. In November 2016, she won the gold medal at the 2016 Commonwealth Wrestling Championship in Singapore in the 48 kg category.
In December 2016, she became the most expensive female wrestler at the Pro Wrestling League auction, bagging a ₹36 lakh contract with the Jaipur Ninjas franchise.
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