Sonam Malik Wiki, Age, Family, Biography and more – FilmyVoice

Sonam Malik is knowledgeable Indian girl wrestler from Sonipat, Haryana. She represents India internationally within the girls’s 65 kg wrestling class. She bagged a gold medal on the Nationwide Video games and two gold medals on the World Cadet Wrestling Championship. In April 2021, Sonam Malik turned the youngest Indian freestyle girl wrestler to qualify for the Olympics on the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.

Wiki/Biography

Sonam Malik was born on Monday, 15 April 2002 (age 21; as of 2023) in Madina village of Sonipat, Haryana. Her zodiac signal is Aries. She joined the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Sports activities Advanced in her village and acquired teaching underneath the academy coach, Ajmer Malik. Other than her sports activities profession, Sonam Malik is presently pursuing a level in Bachelor of Arts from All India Jat Heroes’ Memorial School, Rohtak.

Bodily Look

Peak (approx.): 5′ 5″

Weight (approx.): 62 kg

Hair Color: Black

Eye Color: Black

Household

Mother and father & Siblings

Sonam Malik comes from a household of wrestlers. Her father, Rajinder Malik is a wrestler who has competed in a number of native tournaments which impressed Sonam Malik to decide on wrestling as a sport in her profession. Her mom’s title is Meena Malik. There may be not a lot details about her siblings.

Sonam Malik’s mom, Meena Malik

Husband & Youngsters

She is single.

Faith/Non secular Views

Sonam Malik follows Hinduism.

Profession

Sonam Malik participated in a number of junior district and state competitions in Haryana earlier than becoming a member of the Nationwide Faculty Video games. In 2016, Sonam Malik made her debut in wrestling matches on the Nationwide Faculty Video games and received her first nationwide Gold medal in wrestling. In 2017, she bagged three medals on the Cadet World Wrestling Championship the place she received a silver medal, a bronze medal, and a gold within the Cadet World Wrestling Championship. She received a gold medal within the World Faculty Sports activities Video games 2017. In 2018 and 2019, she represented India and received bronze medals on the Cadet Asian Wrestling Championship. In 2020, she subdued the bronze medallist of the 2016 Rio Olympics, Sakshi Malik in January 2020 throughout the Asian Championship trials, after which in February 2020 throughout the Asian Olympic Qualifiers choice. She represented India and received the silver medal on the 2022 World Junior Wrestling Championship occasion, in Sofia, Bulgaria. ^{In 2022, she represented India on the World Wrestling Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.}

The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi congratulated Sonam Malik on Twitter for profitable the Bronze Medal within the Ladies’s Wrestling 62 kg Freestyle occasion on the Asian Video games. The tweet learn,

Congratulations to @OLYSonam for her excellent Bronze Medal within the Ladies’s Wrestling 62kg Freestyle occasion! Hers is an exceptional win, marked by unmatched zeal, ardour and willpower. I prolong my finest needs for her future endeavours. pic.twitter.com/79RVPZCtSB

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) October 6, 2023

Controversy

In 2023, The Wrestling Federation of India suspended Vinesh Phogat for indiscipline over three counts throughout the Tokyo Olympics2023 and issued a warning discover to Sonam Malik for the misconduct, who took the help of the SAI organisation in acquiring her passport earlier than leaving for the Video games. Nevertheless, Sonam Malik replied to the discover she acquired from the nationwide federation, apologising for the misconduct. WFI has confirmed,

Sonam has replied to the discover and promised that she received’t repeat it. The federation will quickly take a choice on the matter.”

Awards, Honours, Achievements

• Sonam Malik is the silver medallist of the Junior World Championship 2022.

• Sonam Malik received a Silver Medal within the 67 kg wrestling Nationwide Championships 2017.

• She received a Bronze Medal in 62 kg wrestling at Cadet Asian Wrestling Championships 2017.

• She received a Gold Medal in 62 kg wrestling at Cadet World Wrestling Championships 2017.

• She bagged a Bronze Medal in 62 kg wrestling at Asian Wrestling Championships 2018.

• She received a Gold Medal in 62 kg wrestling on the Cadet World Wrestling Championships 2018.

• She received one other Gold Medal in 62 kg girls’s freestyle wrestling on the Cadet World Wrestling Championships 2019, in Bhiwani.

• In January 2020, Sonam Malik secured her place within the Olympics after qualifying for the finals on the Asian Olympic Qualifier event underneath the 62 kg girls’s freestyle wrestling class.

• She was the winner of Bharat Kesari Dangal in 2022.

Info/Trivia

• Sonam Malik misplaced the sport in opposition to the Pan-American champion, Ana Godinez throughout the first spherical of the ladies’s 62kg freestyle wrestling class on the World Wrestling Championships 2022 in Belgrade, Serbia.

• Sonam Malik defeated two-time Asian silver medallist, Ayaulym Kassymova of Uzbekistan by a rating of 8-0 within the qualification spherical of the World Wrestling Championship 2022.

• In 2017, Sonam Malik had an harm on her proper shoulder throughout a event. As a consequence of this, her therapy continued for about one and a half years and made an enormous comeback within the WC Trials in 2022. Her private coach, Ajmer Malik suggested her to take full relaxation as he talked about in an interview about Sonam Malik’s well being,
  

  Sonam continues to be present process a rehabilitation programme at her house in Sonepat. Since she is but to completely get well from the knee harm sustained in April, she isn’t coaching laborious or compete. She couldn’t maintain her arm up. She wasn’t in a position to grip something with any energy. The analysis was that the nerves in her shoulder have been merely not transmitting any impulses right down to hurt. The physician advised her to overlook about wrestling and take into consideration how she would stay from there onwards.”

• In January 2023, Sonam Malik and her fellow wrestlers signed a criticism to the Indian Olympic Affiliation in opposition to the WFI President, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh for psychological and sexual harassment of younger girl wrestlers. Sonam Malik together with different wrestlers sat in entrance of Jantar Mantar to boycott the WFI President.

@PMOIndia @AmitShah @ianuragthakur @PTUshaOfficial pic.twitter.com/yayk3uqjs3

— Bajrang Punia 🇮🇳 (@BajrangPunia) January 20, 2023

At Jantar Mantar #BotcottWFIPresident #BoycottWrestlingPresident pic.twitter.com/RRQerhzVbf

— Sonam Malik (OLY) 🇮🇳 (@OLYSonam) January 18, 2023