Matter of pride for me to be conferred with Arjuna Award: Sakshi Malik


Matter of pride for me to be conferred with Arjuna Award: Sakshi Malik

nap in the air wrestler sakshi malik catches up on sleep while flying

Wrestler Sakshi Malik

Grappler Sakshi Malik, in year 2016 was honoured with one of most eminent award, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna. Following the same year, she was conferred with Padma Shri as well.

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And now, the 27-year-old freestyle wrestler is going to add another feather to her cap in the prestigious Arjuna Award.

After this, Malik would have all the top awards the country has to offer to a sportsperson.

Sakshi expresses her happiness

“It is a matter of pride for me that I will be getting the Arjuna Award, every athlete dreams of getting this accolade, I have received Khel Ratna, Padma Shri but I had not gotten the Arjuna Award, only this accolade was missing from my achievements,” Malik told ANI.

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She is the only woman wrestler till date who managed to win a medal for the country in the Olympics. Sakshi went on to grab the bronze medal in the repechage round at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Yet to get land I was promised by Harayana govt: Sakshi Malik

Salshi Malik at Rio Olympics 2016

The grappler added, “It has been four years that I won the Olympics medal for my country, but I am not happy as all the things which were promised have not been fulfilled. The plot which was to be given to me has not been handed to me yet, there was a promise of job in Haryana but this has not been fulfilled as well.”

Malik feels she deserves more respect from the state government given her achievements.

“Olympic bronze is a big medal, but I am just getting the post of Wrestling Director General at Rohtak University and I think it does not fit my achievements, so I would want the post of at least Sports Director,” she concluded.

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