Divya Kakran (born 1998) is a

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from

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. Divya has won 60 medals, including 17 gold medals in the

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State Championship, and has won the Bharat Kesari title eight times. She has been vocal about being disappointed by the lack of support from the government of Delhi in her pursuit for a medal at the Asian Games in 2018, despite writing to the government about her poor financial background. Divya is presently employed with the

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as senior ticket examiner.

Personal life and family

Divya Kakran hails from

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and belongs to a middle-class family from Purbaliyan village. Her father Suraj sain, sold Langots for livelihood, which her mother sewed at home. Kakran studied Physical Education and Sports Sciences (BPES) at the Noida College of Physical Education in

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Wrestling career

* 2017 Commonwealth Wrestling Championships - Kakran won a gold medal in the Commonwealth Championship held in South

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in December 2017. * 2017 Asian Wrestling Championships - Kakran won a silver medal in the women's freestyle 69 kg event at the

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. * 2018 Bharat Kesri Dangal 23 March 2018 - Kakran won the Bharat Kesari title, held in

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. In the final match of the competition, Kakran defeated Ritu Malik. Before this final match, Kakran defeated the international champion

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, who was famous enough to be portrayed in the movie Dangal. * 2018 Asian Games Jakarta Palembang - Kakran won a bronze medal in the women's freestyle 68 kg event at the

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and

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, beating Taipei's Chen Wenling on account of technical superiority. * In the

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, she won Bronze in Women's 68 kg freestyle wrestling after losing to Tokyo Olympic silver medallist and 11-time African champion Blessing Oborududu from Nigeria.

Competitions

References

External links

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