CWG wrestling venue re-christened as K D Jhadav Stadium

[~IronMan~]

Wed, Jul 7 05:12 AM

In a bid to honour the achievement of India's first individual Olympic medallist, sports minister M S Gill on Tuesday re-christened the newly-built wrestling venue in the Indira Gandhi Sports Complex here as K D Jadhav Stadium. Jadhav won a bronze medal at the 1952 Helsinki Games. The newly-constructed wrestling stadium, one of the venues for this year's Commonwealth Games, was inaugurated in April this year and has a capacity of 6,000. It has been built over an area of 22,350 square metre at a cost of Rs 120 crore.

"I am really happy to rechristen the stadium in the name of K D Jadhav. He didn't have any help, he didn't have any support but he had the determination. He worked very hard and managed on his own and gave India its first individual Olympic medal," he said.





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