Mahavir Phogat was not the first to try and encourage women to take up wrestling.
Answers
Answer:
The Phogat sisters are six sisters from Haryana, India, all of whom are wrestlers. In order of their dates of birth, they are: Geeta, Babita, Priyanka, Ritu, Vinesh and Sangita.[1] While Geeta, Babita, Ritu and Sangita are daughters of former wrestler and coach Mahavir Singh Phogat, Priyanka and Vinesh were brought up by Mahavir after their father, who is the brother of Mahavir, was killed in a land dispute.[2] Mahavir trained all six of them in wrestling in their home village of Balali in Bhiwani district.[3][4][5]
Phogat sisters
Current region
Balali, Charkhi Dadri district, Haryana, India
Members
Geeta Phogat
Babita Kumari
Priyanka Phogat
Ritu Phogat
Vinesh Phogat
Sangita Phogat
Connected members
Mahavir Singh Phogat (father/uncle)
Three of the Phogat sisters Geeta, Babita and Vinesh are gold medalists in different weight categories at the Commonwealth Games, while Priyanka has won a silver medal at the Asian Championships. Ritu is a National Championships gold medalist and Sangita has won medals at age-level international championships.[6][7]
The success of the Phogat sisters has attracted substantial media attention, particularly due to the prevalent social issues in Haryana such as gender inequality, female foeticide and child marriage.[8][9] The Bollywood film Dangal released in India on 23 December 2016 is based on the lives of Phogat sisters with Mahavir, Geeta and Babita as its main characters.[10][11] Wrestler Pooja Dhanda was screened and originally selected to play the role of Babita Phogat in Dangal which she could not play due to an injury, and later she went on to defeat senior Phogat sister Geeta in the real life national championship.[12]
Chandgi Ram's daughters, Sonika and Deepika, sowed the seeds of encouraging girls to take up the women's wrestling in the 1990s, his protege Mahavir Phogat's daughters revolutionized wrestling, and then Sakshi Malik won an Olympic medal, which had now led to big change in mentality towards women playing wrestling due to the role of like Master Chandgi Ram and Mahavir Singh Phogat.[13]
Answer:
No
Explanation:
This statement is wrong