Olympic Medalist Sakshi Malik Gets Engaged to Fellow Wrestler

Big year for the wrestling champ!

Sakshi Malik and her fiance at their engagement ceremony on Sunday. (Photo: Twitter.com/@bishnoikuldeep)

Rio Olympics bronze medallist Sakshi Malik on Sunday got engaged to her wrestler boyfriend Satyawart Kadian at her residence in Rohtak.

The 24-year-old wrestler had earlier spoken about Satyawart in the media.

"It was a private function. Only the families of the to-be bride and groom attended the event and it went very well," Satyawart's father Arjuna Awardee Satyavan Pehelwan said.

Olympic medallist Indian wrestler Sakshi Malik got engaged to wrestler Satyawart Kadian at her residence in Rohtak on Sunday, 16 October 2016. (Photo: PTI)

Satyawart, 22, is two years younger to Sakshi and trains at his father's akhada in Rohtak. He competes in the 97kg freestyle category and had bagged a bronze medal at the 2010 Youth Olympics and silver at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. The two were said to have fallen in love during wrestling tournaments.

About Satyawart, Olympic bronze medallist Sakshi had earlier said, "He is very supportive and thinks of my dreams as his own."