Chandgi Ram

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Chandgi Ram (9 November 1937 – 29 June 2010) was an Indian wrestler who won a gold medal at 1970 Asian Games. He received both an Arjuna award and a Padma Shri. He participated in 1972 Summer Olympics. He was born in 1937 in the Hisar district of state of Haryana. He later set up the akhara to train women wrestlers for international events. He was popularly known as Master Chandgi Ram. He died in New Delhi following a cardiac arrest on 29 June 2010. His daughter Sonika Kaliraman is also a wrestler and was the member of Doha Asian Game's Indian squad. Ram’s children, Sonika and Jagdish, a brother and sister are both among the best wrestlers in the nation.^{[citation needed]}

v t e Asian Games Wrestling Champions in Men's Freestyle Heavyweight

1954–1958: +87 kg 1962–1966: +97 kg 1970–1994: 100 kg 1998: 97 kg 2002–present: 96 kg

1954: Kenzo Fukuda (JPN) 1958: Abbas Zandi (IRI) 1962: Muhammad Saeed (PAK) 1966: Moslem Eskandar-Filabi (IRI) 1970: Chandgi Ram (IND) 1974: Khorloogiin Bayanmönkh (MGL) 1978: Hiroshi Yamamoto (JPN) 1982: Satpal Singh (IND) 1986: Kartar Singh (IND) 1990: Kim Tae-Woo (KOR) 1994: Kim Tae-Woo (KOR) 1998: Abbas Jadidi (IRI) 2002: Alireza Heidari (IRI) 2006: Alireza Heidari (IRI) 2010: Reza Yazdani (IRI)

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Name	Ram, Chandgi
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Short description	Indian wrestler
Date of birth	9 November 1937
Place of birth
Date of death	29 June 2010
Place of death

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