Alka Tomar is one of India’s most accomplished wrestlers. She started wrestling at the age of 16, and went on to become the first Indian woman to win a World Championship medal in 2007. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since then, she has won several medals at the Asian Championships and Commonwealth Games. In this blog post, we will take a look at Alka’s career and some of her major accomplishments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alka Tomar was born on September 10, 1986, in Uttar Pradesh, India. She took up wrestling at the age of 16, inspired by her older brother who was a wrestler himself. She joined the Railways Wrestling Club in New Delhi, where she trained under coach Joginder Singh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alka made her international debut in 2005, at the Asian Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan. She did not win a medal at that event, but she made an impact with her performances. In 2006, she won a bronze medal at the Asian Championships in Taipei. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This was followed by a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in Australia in 2007. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
That same year, she made history by becoming the first Indian woman to win a World Championship medal, when she won a silver medal in the 56 kg category in Baku, Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since then, Alka has gone on to win several more medals at the Asian Championships and Commonwealth Games. In 2010, she won a bronze medal at the Asian Games in Guangzhou, China. She also won a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alka Tomar is one of India’s most accomplished wrestlers. She has won numerous medals at international competitions including the World Championships, Asian Championships, Commonwealth Games, and Asian Games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She is an inspiration to young girls all over India who are looking to take up wrestling as a career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Alka Tomar is one of India’s most accomplished wrestlers. She started wrestling at the age of 16, and went on to become the first Indian woman to win a World Championship medal in 2007. Since then, she has won several medals at the Asian Championships and Commonwealth Games. In this blog post, we will take … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-player"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsbeatsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsbeatsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsbeatsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsbeatsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsbeatsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportsbeatsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/sportsbeatsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsbeatsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsbeatsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsbeatsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsbeatsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}