Shilpi Sheoran Yadav (born 31 May 1989) is an Indian

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 ...

Personal life and family

Shilpi Sheoran was born to a Hindu family to Subhash Chander Sheoran of

Kanwari Kanwari, also spelled Kunwari, or Kwari, is a village of 7,000 population, in Hansi-I Tehsil, Hisar-1 Rural Development Block, Hansi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) and Hisar (Lok Sabha constituency) of Hisar District of Hisar Division in th ...

village in

Hisar district Hisar district is one of the 22 districts of Haryana, India. Hisar city serves as the district headquarters. Hisar district has four sub-divisions that is, Hisar, Barwala, Hansi and Narnaud, each headed by an SDM. The district is also part of H ...

Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land a ...

, which is only 15 km linear distance from

Balali Balali is a village in the Charkhi Dadri district of Haryana State, India. Notable personalities * Mahavir Singh Phogat, Dronacharya Awardee, father and mentor of the famous Phogat sisters — his four daughters Geeta, Babita, Ritu, and ...

village of

Phogat sisters The Phogat sisters are six sisters from Haryana, India, all of whom are wrestlers. In order of their birth, they are Geeta, Babita, Priyanka, Ritu, Vinesh, and Sangeeta. While Geeta, Babita, Ritu, and Sangeeta are daughters of former wrestl ...

. She earned an MA in English from Government College, Hisar, and M PEd (Master in Physical Education) from Kurukshetra University. Sheoran is married to wrestler

Narsingh Yadav Narsingh Pancham Yadav (born 6 August 1989) is an Indian wrestler. At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, he won the gold medal in the men's freestyle 74 kg category. He was banned for 4 years and barred from the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro ...

. She was married on Friday, 10 March 2017.Narsingh Yadav marries Harayana wrestler Shipi Sheoran

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, 11 March 2017. Her husband trains her in

akhara Akhara or Akhada ( Sanskrit and Hindi: अखाड़ा, shortened to ''khara'' Hindi: खाड़ा) is an Indian word for a place of practice with facilities for boarding, lodging and training, both in the context of Indian martial artist ...

.Chak De in the Dangal: Narsingh Yadav trains wife Shilpi Sheoran
Mid-Day, 21 Aug 2017. Her husband credits her love during his toughest phase to bring him out of depression.Shilpi's love kept me going in my toughest phase: Narsingh Yadav

Times of India ''The Times of India'', also known by its abbreviation ''TOI'', is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group. It is the third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and largest se ...

, 11 Mar 2017.

Sports career

She is a roommate of Navjot Kaur.I was finally wrestling without fear: Navjot Kaur after winning historic Asian gold.
ESPN, 2 Mar 2018. In 2016, she won gold in the South Asian Games in Guwahati after she defeated Bangladesh's Farzana Sharmin in the women's 63 kg final bout. In 2017, she made it to the World wrestling championship's women's 63 kg

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 ...

round where she lost out.World wrestling c’ships: Shilpi Sheoran bows out
23 August 2017.

References

1989 births Living people Female sport wrestlers from Haryana South Asian Games gold medalists for India South Asian Games medalists in wrestling {{India-wrestling-bio-stub