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Tokyo Olympics 2020 silver medalist Ravi Kumar Dahiya will not travel for the Asian Games 2023 after he was outclassed 20-8 by Maharashtra’s Atish Todkar in the wrestling trials at the Indira Gandhi Arena on Sunday. Olympic and world medallist, Ravi Dahiya lost in the first round of the wrestling selection trials for the acclaimed tournament. Dahiya started wrestling as a teenager and won a silver medal at the 2015 Junior World Wrestling Championships in Salvador de Bahia in the 55 kg freestyle category.
He suffered an injury in 2017 which kept him out of action for over a year. In his comeback year, he won a silver medal in the 57 kg category at the 2018 World U23 Wrestling Championship in Bucharest, which was India’s only medal in the competition. Dahiya went unbeaten in the 2019 Pro Wrestling League representing the title winning team, Haryana Hammers. He finished fifth at the 2019 Asian Wrestling Championships in Xi’an, after losing the bronze medal match.
In his World Championships debut in 2019, Dahiya defeated European champion Arsen Harutyunyan in the round of 16 and 2017 world champion Yuki Takahashi in the quarter-finals to clinch one of the six available quota places for the 2020 Summer Olympics. He lost in the semifinal round to defending champion and eventual gold medalist Zaur Uguaev.
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He managed to win the bronze medal by defeating Reza Attri of Iran. On the basis of his medal win, Dahiya was included in the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports in October 2019. He is also a bronze medalist at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships and a three-time Asian champion.
Dahiya won the gold medal at the 2020 Asian Wrestling Championships in New Delhi and the 2021 Asian Wrestling Championships in Almaty.
At the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games, he won the gold medal in the men’s 57 kg freestyle wrestling category in Birmingham, England.
At the 2022 Yasar Dogu tournament, he won the gold medal after defeating Uzbek Gulomjon Abdullaev 11–10 in the final. At the 2022 World Wrestling Championships, he lost in the pre-quarterfinals to Uzbekistan’s Gulomjon Abdullaev.
