Throughout the four-year Olympic cycle starting Rio 2016, Bajrang Punia, a 27-year-old player from Jhajjar Haryana, has become one of the medals at every multi-sports event and international competition, including gold in CWG and Asian Games in 2018.
Bajrang game characteristics are tactical brilliance, speed and stamina.
He can quickly read his opponent’s movements and change the game plan according to the match situation.
For Tokyo, he even worked on two striking weaknesses in his game, according to Bajrang, often caused his fall in the crunch situation.
He has a habit of starting slowly, offering his opponents an important time to install points.
Also, its vulnerability to foot attacks is exploited by rivals.
Unfortunately, the injury to his right knee was only a month ago in Russia somewhat frozen his journey for the gold medal finished in Tokyo.
However, Bajrang did well in the world-class grambler decorated to complete with bronze.
Bajrang has been waiting for this opportunity since Rio 2016.
He all prepared for the match but made the way for Guruji (mentor) Yogeshwar Dutt, The London 2012 was a penalist (61kg), to go for the last Hore.
Bajrang allowed his senior pros to go and secure the Olympic quota for India at the men’s 65kg Freestyle event from the Astana Olympic qualifying tournament in Astana.
Yogeshwar requires and ordered his bed for the Rio game.
Bajrang did not cross the road with Gurui and it was the way to pay faith.
He knows that the time will come.
In fact, in 2016, Yogeshwar had praised Bajrang as his legitimate successor in the 65kg category.
Bajrang was fascinated by wrestling at the age of seven, when he would fail class to attend the Dargal (wrestling mud) in Local Akhara Khudan Village.
It helped his father, Singh Balwan, also a grappler and holds a big swinging at the Jhajjar wrestling circuit.
Seeing his son’s love for the sport, Balwan enrolled it at the Academy of Wrestling in the early 2000s.
Bajrang, who will compete in the 60kg men’s freestyle in the early days, announced his arrival on the big stage after winning Bronze in the Asian championship and the world in 2013.
The following year, he brought a silver medal from Asian games, CWG and Asia, competing in 61kg category.
Bajrang secured a medal at all major international events, but the big ticket moment came in 2018 when he won four medals in 2018, including CWG and Asiad Gold.
After the qualification for Tokyo in 2019 after the bronze winner’s efforts in the world at Nur-Sultan, Bajrang made an agreement with Olympic Glory with the finish podium on Saturday