Wrestler Ravi Dahiya’s school to be renamed after the Olympic medallist

Ravi Kumar Dahiya

A Delhi government school in Adarsh Nagar, where Olympic silver medallist wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya studied, will be named after the Haryana grappler, Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, Manish Sisodia said on Tuesday.

The decision in this regard was taken by the Delhi government during Dahiya's visit to the school on Tuesday, where he was welcomed by the school staff and Sisodia.

Dahiya, who hails from a village in Sonipat, had studied in the senior secondary school for boys in Adarsh Nagar, which will now be called Ravi Dahiya Bal Vidyalaya.

At the Olympic Games in Tokyo, the wrestler, 23, had bagged the silver medal after losing in the final of the 57kg freestyle category to Russian Olympic Committee's (ROC) Zavur Uguev. He thus became the second grappler after Sushil Kumar to win a silver at the Olympics.

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