Photo & video gallery

Akharas, dangals, championships and the champions they produced.

Photos

A wrestler lifts his opponent high above the mud pit at a kushti bout in Haryana — Kushti in a Haryana mud akharaArtoffabhi · CC BY-SA 4.0

Medallists on the podium of the men’s freestyle 57 kg at the Paris 2024 Olympics — Aman Sehrawat on the Paris 2024 podiumNational Olympic Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan · CC BY 4.0

Hundreds of spectators ring an open-air mud arena during a village dangal — A village dangal draws the crowdsRajmeena.cse · CC BY-SA 3.0

Yogeshwar Dutt holds up his gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi — Yogeshwar Dutt, CWG 2010 goldMinistry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India · GODL-India

A dangal in progress in an open field, spectators watching from the edge — Dangal under the open skyDrAmitKSharma · CC BY-SA 4.0

India’s wrestling contingent for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in formal blazers — India’s CWG 2022 wrestling contingentPrime Minister's Office, Government of India · GODL-India

Yogeshwar Dutt receives the Padma Shri at Rashtrapati Bhavan — Yogeshwar Dutt receives the Padma Shri, 2013President's Secretariat, Government of India · GODL-India

Bajrang Punia in a maroon blazer at the Arjuna Award ceremony — Bajrang Punia, Arjuna Award 2015President's Secretariat, Government of India · GODL-India

Black-and-white photograph of the Great Gama training at his akhara — Heritage: the Great Gama at his akhara, 1928Unknown photographer · Public domain

Videos

A wrestler trains with traditional clubs at an akhara — Morning training at the akharaParatha Sarathi Sahana · CC BY 2.0

Two young wrestlers grapple in the mud as a crowd watches — Young wrestlers at a dangal03Ani03 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Photo credits

Images from Wikimedia Commons, used under the licences shown. Government of India photographs are released under the Government Open Data Licence – India (GODL).

Kushti in a Haryana mud akhara — Artoffabhi, CC BY-SA 4.0
Aman Sehrawat on the Paris 2024 podium — National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan, CC BY 4.0
A village dangal draws the crowds — Rajmeena.cse, CC BY-SA 3.0
Yogeshwar Dutt, CWG 2010 gold — Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India, GODL-India
Morning training at the akhara — Paratha Sarathi Sahana, CC BY 2.0
Dangal under the open sky — DrAmitKSharma, CC BY-SA 4.0
India’s CWG 2022 wrestling contingent — Prime Minister's Office, Government of India, GODL-India
Young wrestlers at a dangal — 03Ani03, CC BY-SA 4.0
Yogeshwar Dutt receives the Padma Shri, 2013 — President's Secretariat, Government of India, GODL-India
Bajrang Punia, Arjuna Award 2015 — President's Secretariat, Government of India, GODL-India
Heritage: the Great Gama at his akhara, 1928 — Unknown photographer, Public domain