Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav www.karaddiary.com Born : January 15, 1926Goleshwar, Karad Taluka, Satara District, Maharashtra, India Died : August 14, 1984 (aged 58) Occupation : Wrestler Olympic medal record : Men's wrestling Competitor for India Bronze 1952 Helsinki Bantamweight Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav or KD Jadhav (15 January 1926 – 14 August 1984), widely known as 'Pocket Dynamo', was independent India's first individual Olympic medalist when he won the freestyle wrestling bronze medal at the 1952 Helsinki Games. Since 1900 when Norman Pritchard won two silver medals in athletics, India had won gold medals only in field hockey, a team sport. For nearly half a century, his would remain the only individual medal for India at the Olympics until Leander Paes won a bronze in 1996. Hailing from a wrestling background, Jadhav was an ardent fan of sports, mainly wrestling, kabaddi, running, swimming and others. His father, a wrestler himself taug
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