Rani Rana Height, Weight, Age, Husband, Family, Biography & More 2024

Some Lesser Known Facts About Rani Rana

• Rani Rana is an Indian wrestler. She turned the primary lady wrestler from Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh who gained the Gold Medal within the 55 kg class on the National Women’s Wrestling Championship in 2019.

• When she was in class and began studying wrestling in her village, many individuals criticised her for wrestling with boys. Then her mother and father determined to go away the city and transfer to a metropolis in order that Rani might pursue her wrestling coaching.

• Later, she took coaching for mat wrestling at Indore’s Sports Authority of India.
  

  An image of Rani Rana at Indore’s Sports Authority of India

• Rani Rana challenged and defeated a male wrestler, Vinod Prajapati, in only a minute with the Nelson Hold on the annual Dada Bhilchandra Sule wrestling championship within the Sardar Vallabbhai Patel Higher Secondary School in Kodariya village, Gwalior. Before difficult Vinod Prajapati, she gained in opposition to a feminine wrestler, Chitra Yadav.
  

  Rani Rana throughout a wrestling match with wrestler Vinod Prajapati

• In an interview, when she was requested how she felt after defeating a male opponent, she stated
  

  Challenging a male counterpart shouldn’t be a giant deal for me as previously I confronted a number of male wrestlers within the enviornment. The most vital factor was that I needed to indicate those that we aren’t any much less in energy and might beat anybody on any day.”

• She confronted criticism from her brother after pinning down a male wrestler in 2016. In an interview she said
  

  My brother and different kin stated I used to be exposing my physique. But I by no means stopped chasing my desires even after I was scolded by my kin. My kin criticized me even on January 11 after I pinned down a male wrestler inside a minute of a bout.”

• In 2019, she defeated Mansi from Uttar Pradesh to win the Gold Medal on the National Women’s Wrestling Championship held in Shirdi, Maharashtra.

• In October 2019, she represented India within the Senior World Championships held in Hungary for the under-23 age group. However, she was defeated by Dominique Olivia Parrish from the United States of America.
  

  Rani Rana (in blue) throughout U23 Senior World Championship in Hungary

• In 2019, she represented India on the Asian championships held in Xi’an, China.

• As per some sources, Rani gained the bronze medal for 4 consecutive years from 2017 to 2020 on the Senior Wrestling Championship.

• She has gained the Gold medal within the senior class on the National Wrestling Championship held in Bhubaneswar. 

• Rani Rana was supplied a task within the Bollywood movie Dangal by the actor Aamir Khan however she refused the supply as a result of she needed to give attention to her sport.
• She revealed in an interview that the largest inspiration behind her success was her paternal and maternal grandfathers, who have been wrestlers themselves.
• She was chosen because the model ambassador of the Gwalior district by the district administration in 2017 and was appointed because the model ambassador for the marketing campaign Beti Bachao Beti Padhao.