CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Sangita Phogat (Sangeeta Phogat) is an Indian wrestler who belongs to the famed wrestling family, ‘the Phogats’. She is a silver medalist at the National Championships.

Detailed explanation-2: -Vinesh Phogat (born 25 August 1994) is an Indian wrestler. She became the first Indian woman wrestler to win gold in both Commonwealth and Asian Games. She is the only Indian woman wrestler to win multiple medals at the World Wrestling Championships.

Detailed explanation-3: -Chandgi Ram’s daughters, Sonika and Deepika, sowed the seeds of encouraging girls to take up women’s wrestling in the 1990s; his protege Mahavir Phogat’s daughters revolutionized wrestling, and then Sakshi Malik won an Olympic medal, which led to a big change in the mentality towards women wrestling.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sangeeta Phogat is a national medallist in the 59kg category in wrestling. Sangeeta Phogat has five sisters, all of whom are national and international level wrestlers. The other Phogat sisters are Geeta, Babita, Priyanka, Ritu and Vinesh.

Detailed explanation-5: -Geeta and Babita Phogat kick it off Geeta Phogat-the elder of the two siblings-made history at the 2010 Commonwealth Games when she won the gold medal in the women’s 55kg category. It was the first gold medal by a female Indian wrestler at the Commonwealth Games. Younger sister Babita Phogat won silver in the 51kg.