Yogeshwar Dutt 

    

   Yogeshwar Dutt  is an Indian wrestler. He won the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's 60kg Freestyle wrestling.He started wrestling from a very young age of 8 years. His inspiration was Balraj Pehlwan who was from his native village and he was trained under the guidance of coach Ramphal.Yogeshwar Dutt won the Gold Medal in the 2003 Commonwealth Wrestling Championship.At the Athens Olympics, Dutt took part in Men's freestyle 55 kg and stood 18th.Yogeshwar had lost his father on August 3, 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 kilogram category at the 15th Asian Games at Doha.On 12 Aug 2012, Yogeshwar Dutt provided a late boost to India's medal collection in the 30th Olympic Games by claiming a memorable bronze in the men's freestyle 60 kg category, thus becoming the second Indian to achieve the feat in the country's Games history. Yogeshwar won a Bronze medal in the Men's freestyle 60 kg at the 2012 London Olympics.

Yogeshwar Dutt

 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 Mahmoud Masoud Esmaeilpour Jouybari (2-3, 0-1).At the Olympics he lost to the Russian B Kudukhov 1-0, 2-0 and was knocked out from the pre-quarterfinal round. He got a chance to contest in the repechage rounds as Kudukhov reached the finals of the event.In his first repechage round he went on to beat Franklin Gómez of Puerto Rico with a score of 1-0, 1-0. He had gotten lucky against his opponent, winning the toss on both the occasions to earn a clinch position. Yogeshwar then scored 7-5 to beat Mahmoud Masoud Esmaeilpour Jouybari with an aggregate of counted points 3-1 in Repechage Round 2. Esmaeilpour Jouybari had beaten Yogeshwar at the Asian qualifications earlier that year.He finally beat his North Korean opponent to clinch the bronze medal (0-1, 1-0, 6-0). He was exceptional in the last round, and clinched it in just 1:02 minutes.