Star wrestler Geeta Phogat on Monday, 2 September, took to Twitter to announce her pregnancy.
The 2010 gold medal winner in wrestling at the Commonwealth Games, posted a photo of herself with a baby bump, writing that a “mother’s joy begins when new life is stirring inside, when a tiny heartbeat is heard for the very first time.”
Phogat married fellow Indian wrestler Pawan Kumar in November 2016.
After her stint in the reality show Khatron ke Khiladi, Geeta returned to the mat with a gold at the All India Police Championship in October 2017 and also clinched the top spot in the 59 kg category at the National Wrestling Championship.
She bagged another gold at the Commonwealth Wrestling Championships in December 2017, but failed to qualify for the CWG 2018 after losing to Pooja Dhanda in the trials for the 57 kg division.
Geeta had missed out on a berth for the 2016 Rio Olympics because she was suspended by the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) after she forfeited her repechage bout in the first Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Ulaanbator, Mongolia in April.
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