Chinu XXX (born 6 June 1987) is a British

freestyle wrestler Freestyle wrestling is a style of wrestling originated from Great Britain and the United States. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of the two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic Games. American high school and men's college wrestling i ...

. Usually known as Chinu Singh, he competed for England in the men's freestyle 125 kg event at the

2014 Commonwealth Games The 2014 Commonwealth Games ( gd, Geamannan a' Cho-fhlaitheis 2014), officially known as the XX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Glasgow 2014, ( sco, Glesca 2014 or Glesga 2014; gd, Glaschu 2014), was an international multi-sport ev ...

where he won a bronze medal.

Commonwealth Games

Chinu beat Claude Mbianga from Cameroon in the wrestling 125kg men's freestyle "round of sixteen" (actually only four, since there were ten competitors in total, six getting byes) to progress to the quarter-finals where he beat Zaman Anwar from Pakistan. In the semifinals he lost to eventual gold medal winner Canadian Korey Jarvis. He beat Hollis Mkanga from Kenya in the

repechage Repechage (; french: repêchage, "fishing out, rescuing") is a practice in series competitions that allows participants who failed to meet qualifying standards by a small margin to continue to the next round. A well known example is the wild car ...

to win one of the two bronze medals for the event.

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Chinu Xxx wins Commonwealth Games bronze; how the wrestler got his name
1987 births Living people English male wrestlers Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Wrestlers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games English people of Indian descent Sportspeople from Ludhiana Commonwealth Games medallists in wrestling British male sport wrestlers European Games competitors for Great Britain Wrestlers at the 2015 European Games Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games {{UK-wrestling-bio-stub