Pawan Kumar (wrestler)

Pawan Kumar

Personal information
Nationality	Indian
Born	(1993-10-16) 16 October 1993 Nangal Thakran, Delhi, India
Education	Graduate
Alma mater	Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak
Occupation	Government official, ONGC
Height	173 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	86 kg (190 lb)
Sport
Country	India
Sport	Freestyle wrestling
Event(s)	86 kg
Club	Delhi, India
Coached by	Vinod Kumar (since August 2014)
Medal record Representing  India Men's Freestyle Wrestling Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow 86 kg
Updated on 27 October 2015.

Pawan Kumar (born 16 October 1993) is an Indian wrestler. He represented India at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the 86 kg weight class in which he won the bronze medal.^[1] He also represented India at the 2014 Asian Games in the 86 kg weight class.

Career

2014 Commonwealth Games

The young wrestler began his maiden CWG campaign in Glasgow, Scotland with a Round of 16 matchup against Steve Hill of New Zealand, winning the match 4-0. Pawan met Luigi Bianco of Scotland in the quarter-finals and beat him 5-0. In the semi-finals, Pawan unfortunately lost out to Tamerlan Tagziev of Canada with the burly Canadian beating him 5-0. There was still a chance of a medal with Pawan competing in the bronze medal match. He faced Muhammad Inam of Pakistan and ended the tightly contested match 6-6. But he was awarded the bronze medal in the particular category since he was the last one to score a point.^[2]

2014 Asian Games

The 2014 Asian Games, held in Incheon, South Korea, wasn't as rewarding for Pawan. In the Round of 16, Pawan faced off against Sumir Kumar Sah of Nepal and won 4-0. Progressing to the quarter-finals stage, Pawan was up against Mostafajoukar Meisam of Iran but lost 0-4 to the Iranian. With the latter qualifying for the finals, Pawan was given a chance to compete in the repechage round where he met Zhang Feng of China but ultimately crashed out of the tournament, losing 1-3.^[3]

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