Wrestler Sushil Kumar has been nominated for the ‘Padma Bhushan’ by Wrestling Federation of India (WFI). Sushil Kumar is the Two-time Olympic-medallist and might be one of the recipients of Padma Bhushan, which is India’s third-highest civilian honour. As earlier, Sushil’s name was recommended for the honour two years ago but was rejected.
Other than Sushil Kumar, the Federation has also recommended female wrestler Alka Tomar and Dronacharya awardee Yashvir Singh fo the honour. Yashvir Singh is also Sushil’s coach and how blissful it would be for a pupil to receive the same honour with his mentor.
WFI assistant secretary Vinod Tomar said that “All three names were recommended earlier last month for the honour.”
Sushil is the only Indian athlete to have won two individual Olympic medals – a bronze in the 2008 Beijing Games and a silver in the 2012 London Games. Already bestowed with the Khel Ratna award, India’s highest sporting honour, Sushil is also a World Championships gold-medallist, a two-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist, four-time Commonwealth champion.
However 33-years old Sushil missed out on Rio Olympics as Narsingh Yadav was sent for the Games to represent India in men’s 74kg freestyle category. But ultimately Yadav could not take part at the Rio Games after failing a dope test. Also, Sushil Kumar also fought the legal fight for trials but failed.
