Donning Same Jersey as Fiance Will Help League Team: Sakshi Malik

Rio bronze medallist Sakshi Malik got engaged on 16 October.

Sakshi’s fiance Satyavrat is the current national champion in the 97 kg category. (Photo: Twitter.com/@bishnoikuldeep)

Rio Olympics bronze-medallist Sakshi Malik who got engaged on 16 October said that if she and her fiance Satyavrat Kadian don the same team jersey in the second edition of Pro Wrestling League (PWL) it would immediately benefit that franchise.

Satyavrat, who is the current national champion in the men’s 97kg freestyle category, helps Sakshi by studying her competitors and making strategies against them while she provides him with incisive analysis of his rivals' moves.

‘Feeling blessed to be getting married into a family of wrestlers’, Sakshi said:

He studies my competition and I analyse his.

The 24-year-old Sakshi had represented Revanta Mumbai Garuda in the first season of PWL, while Satyavrat was a part of the UP Warriors. Sakshi, who fights in women's 58kg, said that besides her coaches she has also learnt a lot from her Revanta Mumbai Garuda captain Adeline Gray of USA.

It has been memorable for me to do mat training with her (Adeline Gray). This league has taught us to compete with the international level athletes and has also boosted our morale but the experience of getting back into the game and winning despite of losing, has been taught by great efforts to me by my coach.

Sakshi Malik

She added:

I am indebted to the services of my coach, especially Ishwar Dahiya who has given me the best and appropriate training for this game.

Sakshi urged all the PWL teams to open their coaching camps before the beginning of the League so that every Indian wrestler can get an opportunity to learn from the Olympic medallists.