Harishchandra Madhavrao Birajdar

Born: 5 June 1950

Died: 14 September 2011

• He was a wrestler and wrestling coach from India.
• He was a Gold Medallist in the 1970 British Commonwealth Games.
• He was also known as the coach of National Games winners.
• He had defeated well-known wrestler Satpal in a 1977 bout, which brought him into limelight.
• He worked as coach in Gokul Vastad Talim in Pune.
• He was awarded the Dhyanchand award in 2006 by the Indian Government.
• Earlier in 1971 he has been awarded the Shivchhatrapati award and then the Dadoji Konddev award for coaching in 1998.
• Even after having been honoured with so many awards and recognitions, he was a humble human being,” said Ganpatrao Khedkar, under whose tutelage Birajdar wrestled from 1965 to 1998.

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