Shilpi Sheoran Yadav (born 31 May 1989) is an Indian
freestyle wrestler.
Personal life and family
Shilpi Sheoran was born to a Hindu family to Subhash Chander Sheoran of
Kanwari village in
Hisar district,
Haryana
Haryana () is a States and union territories of India, state located in the northern part of India. It was carved out after the linguistic reorganisation of Punjab, India, Punjab on 1 November 1966. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with les ...
, which is only 15 km linear distance from
Balali village of
Phogat sisters. 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.
She was married on Friday, 10 March 2017.
[Narsingh Yadav marries Harayana wrestler Shipi Sheoran]
Hindustan Times
''Hindustan Times'' is an Indian English language, English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi. It is the flagship publication of HT Media Limited, an entity controlled by the Birla family, and is owned by Shobhana Bhartia, the daughter o ...
, 11 March 2017. Her husband trains her in
akhara.
[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'' (''TOI'') is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by the Times Group. It is the List of newspapers in India by circulation, third-largest newspaper in India by circulation an ...
, 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 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
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