Babita, Amit recommended for Arjuna award

New Delhi: Grapplers Babita Kumari, Amit Kumar Dahiya and Bajrang have been recommended by the Wrestling Federation of India for this year’s Arjuna award. “We have recommended the names of Babita Kumari, Amit Kumar and Bajrang for this year’s Arjuna award,” Assistant secretary of WFI, Vinod Tomar told PTI. One of the famous Phogat sisters, 25-year-old Babita, fights in the women’s freestyle wrestling 55kg category and has done pretty well in the last one year. She won a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in July last year but unfortunately lost out on a third-place finish in a well-fought bronze medal play-off bout in the Incheon Asian Games in September last year. In the recently-concluded Senior Asian Wrestling championship, Babita did well, although she failed to make it to the podium after losing the bronze medal by a whisker.