The wrestler from Haryana shot into limelight when he won the gold medal at the 2003 Commonwealth Games.
The Rio Olympics will be his fourth Olympics. His first participation came in Athens Olympics where he finished a disappointing 18th in his event. In the 2008 Olympics in Beijing he finished 9th and four years later in London, he won his first medal in Olympics when he defeated North Korean Ri Jong-Myong in the bronze medal bout.