Harishchandra Madhavrao Birajdar (June 5, 1950 – September 14, 2011) was a wrestler and wrestling coach from

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. He was a Gold Medallist in the 1970 British Commonwealth Games. He was also known as the coach of National Games winners.

Biography

Birajdar was born in Ramling Mudgad Tal in

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in the

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. He was from

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community. He was coached by his father initially and then Ganpatrao Khedkar at Gangaves Talim, Kolhapur. He had defeated well-known wrestler Satpal in a 1977 bout, which brought him into limelight. Birajdar worked as coach in Gokul Vastad Talim in

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. He was awarded the Dhyanchand Award in 2006 by the

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. Dhyan Chand Award Earlier in 1971 he has been awarded the Shivchhatrapati award and then the Dadoji Konddev award for coaching in 1998. Even after having been honoured with so many awards and recognitions, he was a humble human being," said Ganpatrao Khedkar, under whose tutelage Birajdar wrestled from 1965 to 198

Awards and achievements

* 1969:

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* 1971: Shivchhatrapati Award * 1972: Rustum E Hind * 1998: Dadoji Konddev Award * 2006: Dhyanchand Award

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1950 births 2011 deaths Olympic wrestlers of India Indian wrestling coaches People from Maharashtra Sport wrestlers from Maharashtra Wrestlers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Indian male sport wrestlers Marathi people Recipients of the Dhyan Chand Award Wrestlers at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for India Commonwealth Games medallists in wrestling 20th-century Indian people {{India-wrestling-bio-stub

Biography

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