{"id":1542,"date":"2016-04-27T13:59:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T13:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2016-04-26T14:22:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T14:22:56","slug":"indian-origin-wrestler-to-represent-australia-at-rio-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1542","title":{"rendered":"Indian origin wrestler to represent Australia at Rio Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1545\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vin-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"vin\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vin-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vin.jpg 647w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Indian origin wrestler Vinod Kumar Dahiya is all set to represent Australia at the Rio Olympics after he qualified in the 66kg weight category in Greco-Roman event.<\/p>\n<p>According to the official website, Vinod, originally from a small village of Khanda in Haryana, became a citizen of Australia a year ago and is now all set to make his debut at the Olympics, to be held in August.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old grappler secured an Olympic berth after winning a silver medal at the African\/Oceania Olympic qualifiers in Algeria.<\/p>\n<p>Following the footsteps of his older brothers, Vinod started wrestling at age of eight. Seeing his potential, Vinod&#8217;s family sent him to Mahabali Satpal&#8217;s wrestling academy in New Delhi in 1998. Thereafter, he participated in state and national competitions for four years. He also competed in the popular Indian sport of dirt wrestling.<br \/>\nVinod migrated to Australia in 2010, where he started training at the United Wrestling Club under former Wresting Australia President, Kuldip Bassi.<\/p>\n<p>Based in Victoria, Vinod has so far claimed six national championships and countless medals at the Australia Cup and Canberra Cup tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>He represented the green and gold for the first time at the Oceania Championships in New Zealand in March, where he bagged the gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>Source: TOI\/ India Today<\/p>\n<div class=\"last3brdiv\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"last2brdiv\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"last5brdiv\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian origin wrestler Vinod Kumar Dahiya is all set to represent Australia at the Rio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[9,14,3,33],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vin.jpg",647,404,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vin-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vin-300x187.jpg",300,187,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vin.jpg",640,400,false],"large":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vin.jpg",640,400,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vin.jpg",647,404,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vin.jpg",647,404,false],"enternews-featured":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vin.jpg",647,404,false],"enternews-medium":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vin.jpg",647,404,false],"enternews-thumbnail":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vin.jpg",480,300,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1546,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions\/1546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}