Ravi Dahiya

Tokyo Olympics silver medallist Ravi Kumar Dahiya and Paralympic high jumper Sharad Kumar have approached the Central Administrative Tribunal seeking regularisation of their services as Assistant Directors of Education (Sports) with the Delhi government.

At the Times of India Sports Awards 2025 in Lucknow, Olympic silver medalist ravi dahiya delivered a humble, inspiring message amid celebrations. He praised the platform for uniting India’s top athletes and emphasised discipline and good intentions as keys to success. Reflecting on his journey, he highlighted perseverance, reminding aspiring sportspersons that consistent effort builds the foundation for great future achievements.

A Delhi government school in Adarsh Nagar area will now be renamed after its alumnus and Olympic medal winner ravi dahiya, deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia announced on Tuesday.

To honour Olympic silver medallist ravi dahiya, Delhi government has decided to name the government school he studied in as ravi dahiya Bal Vidyalaya, deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia announced on Tuesday. He also said that the government would soon be establishing School of Specialised Excellence for Sports along with the Delhi Sports University.

This segment acknowledged sustained excellence over the past decade, highlighting athletes who have consistently represented India at the highest level and delivered results across global competitions.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi congratulated wrestler ravi dahiya on Thursday for winning a silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics.

Olympic silver medallist wrestler ravi dahiya has now set his sights on winning gold medals at the upcoming World Championships and the postponed Asian Games to be held in Hangzhou, China next year. He is currently training in Russia to prepare for the World Championships, which will begin in Belgrade from September 10.

Tokyo Olympics silver medalist ravi dahiya has thanked Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar for announcing the construction of an indoor wrestling stadium at his native village Nahri in Sonepat.

Olympic silver medallist ravi dahiya wants to have the Arjuna Award before the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award, the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) has said.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar met the family of wrestler ravi dahiya, who won a silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics.

ravi dahiya came, fought and walked away with top honours. The Tokyo Olympics silver medallist seemed to be in a tearing hurry, steamrolling his opponents one bout after another, to finish on top of the podium at the Asian Wrestling meet in Ulaanbaatar on Saturday.

The quiet storm. The sobriquet would fit the bill to a tee if one is told to describe ravi dahiya in one or two words.

Olympic silver medallist wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya withdrew from the Bishkek Ranking Series event due to a knee injury sustained during warm-up.

Bajrang Punia and ravi dahiya on Saturday assured themselves of silver medals at the Asian Wrestling Championships underway at the KD Jadhav Wrestling Hall in the national capital.

Olympic medallist ravi dahiya on Monday said that he is now eyeing for a gold medal in the World Wrestling Championships scheduled to be held next month.

There is a definite buzz in Sonipat's Nahri village these days. People of Nahri are eagerly waiting to see ravi dahiya return with a medal around his neck from the Tokyo Olympics. The expectations are high after Ravi won a bronze medal at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships in Tajikistan in the freestyle 57 kg category to book an Olympic berth.

Tokyo Olympics silver winner ravi dahiya and 2019 World Championships medallist Deepak Punia, along with six other Indian wrestlers, have been selected for a special camp in Teteven, Bulgaria from February 5 to 23.

India's ravi dahiya endured a painful bite on his biceps from opponent Nurislam Sanayev during the Tokyo Olympics semifinal but the in-form wrestler is perfectly fine and raring to go for the final, a support staff member of the team assured. After ravi dahiya scripted one of the greatest comebacks on the mat, the pictures revealed the deep bite mark on his right bicep.

Bajrang Punia and ravi dahiya -- both Tokyo Games medallists -- were on Sunday eliminated from the race for the Paris Olympics qualification after losing their respective bouts in the selection trials in Sonepat, Haryana for the upcoming international tournaments. Punia, who was a prominent face of protest against former WFI President Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, suffered a crushing 1-9 defeat in the men's freestyle 65kg semifinal against to Rohit Kumar.

India's Olympic-bound wrestler ravi dahiya clinched a gold medal at the Asian Wrestling Championship in February earlier this year at the Indira Gandhi Stadium and he is determined to carry on his good form at the ongoing World Cup in Belgrade, Serbia.

Tokyo Olympics silver medal winning wrestler ravi dahiya kicked off the India-leg of the Queens Baton Relay for the Birmingham Commonwealth Games with a symbolic run in the National Capital on Wednesday.

Olympic-bound ravi dahiya could not take advantage of a tiring Gulomjon Abdullaev in the final after outclassing the same Uzbek wrestler in his opening round and settled for a silver medal at the Poland Open on Wednesday.

Tokyo Olympics silver medallist ravi dahiya has started training again and his focus is back on the wrestling mat. After his podium finish in Tokyo, the star wrestler was engaged in many events once he returned to India.

Narsingh Pancham Yadav's much-anticipated return to the mat after a four-year doping ban ended with a Qualification round defeat while Tokyo Olympics-bound ravi dahiya suffered a surprise opening-round loss at the individual World Cup.

Wrestler ravi dahiya's fighting spirit and tenacity got all round praise from the Indian sports fraternity on Thursday with the President and the Prime Minister leading the country in hailing his outstanding feat of winning a silver in the Tokyo Olympics. Dahiya became only the second Indian wrestler to win a silver medal at the Olympic Games after Sushil Kumar.

Tokyo Olympics silver-medallist ravi dahiya has joined hands with Smile Foundation to promote its campaign 'Shiksha Na Ruke'. Dahiya will lend his support to promote the educational initiative that aims to empower lives of underprivileged children who are missing out on education due to lack of facilities to attend online classes.

Young wrestler ravi dahiya, who recently won a World Championships bronze medal, was on Friday included in the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) while struggling Sakshi Malik was dropped from the program.

To say ravi dahiya is shy will be an understatement. It is an onerous task to get words out of his mouth. At times, he stops midway through his sentences and then you've to prompt him. But on the mat he doesn't require any prompting, and seldom does he stop.

Olympic-bound wrestler ravi dahiya has decided to skip the men's national camp, scheduled to begin this month at the Sports Authority of India (SAI) centre in Sonepat, Haryana, for the time being, citing academic reasons.