Yogeshwar Dutt

Yogeshwar Dutt (born 2 November 1982) is a former Indian wrestler. At the 2012 London Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the 60 kg freestyle event. He was conferred the Arjuna Award in 2009, Khel Ratna in 2012 and the Padma Shri in 2013 by the Government of India.

Dutt was born in Bhainswal Kalan village in Sonipat district of Haryana. He first started wrestling at the age of eight in his native village and idolised Balraj Pehlwan. He was trained by coach Ramphal. Dutt is a vegetarian.

Yogeshwar had lost his father on 3 August 2006 just nine days before he boarded the flight to Doha for the Asian Games. He also sustained a knee injury, but despite all the emotional and physical trauma he managed to win the bronze in the 60 kg category at the 15th Asian Games at Doha.

At the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games, Yogeshwar overcame a career-threatening knee injury to win the 60 kg title. On his way to the final, Yogeshwar went past Australian Farzad Tarash (16–0, 17–0), South African Marius Loots (7–1) and England's Sasha Madyarchyk (4–4, 8–0) before winning the gold.

On 12 August 2012, Dutt provided a late boost to India's medals tally in the 2012 London Olympics by claiming a bronze in the Men's freestyle 60 kg, becoming only the third Indian wrestler to win an Olympic medal after K D Jadhav in 1952 and Sushil Kumar in 2008 and 2012.

He had defeated North Korean Ri Jong-Myong in the bronze medal bout thus winning the fifth medal for Indian contingent at the London Olympics 2012.

Earlier, Yogeshwar qualified for the 2012 Olympics by winning a silver medal at an Asian qualification tournament in Astana, Kazakhstan where he lost to Iranian Masoud Esmaeilpour (2–3, 0–1) in the final.

At the Olympics he lost to the Russian B Kudukhov 1–0, 2–0 and was knocked out in the pre-quarterfinal round. He got a chance to contest in the repechage rounds as Kudukhov reached the finals of the event.