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Home / News / Sports News / Yogeshwar Dutt's bronze will not be upgraded to silver
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    Yogeshwar Dutt's bronze will not be upgraded to silver

    Written by
    Rishikesh Malkhede
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    Gaurav Jeyaraman
    Last updated on Oct 26, 2016, 11:30 am
    Yogeshwar Dutt's bronze will not be upgraded to silver
  • Yogeshwar Dutt's bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics will not be converted to a silver medal, after the International Olympics Committee (IOC) cleared the investigation on Besik Kudukhov.

    The IOC in a statement said that they "will not deprive wrestler Besik Kudukhov of his silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London."

    Notably, Dutt had also declined to get his medal upgraded.

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    Yogeshwar Dutt Khel Ratna for Dutt Besik Serodinovich Kudukhov Yogeshwar's bronze medal to be upgraded to silver? UWW confirms the news, waiting for IOC Yogeshwar Dutt's bronze will not be upgraded to silver
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    Yogeshwar Dutt

    Yogeshwar Dutt
  • Yogeshwar Dutt is an Indian wrestler who won the bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics.

    He has also won gold medals at the Commonwealth Championships in 2003, 2005 and 2007 and in the 2010 and 2014 Commonwealth Games.

    Dutt was one of the favorites for winning a medal for India at the 2016 Rio Olympics but he exited in the very first round.

  • Information

    Khel Ratna for Dutt

  • In 2012, Yogeshwar Dutt was honoured with the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award; the highest award for a sportsperson in India.

  • About

    Besik Serodinovich Kudukhov

    Besik Serodinovich Kudukhov
  • Besik Serodinovich Kudukhov is a Russian wrestler. He won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and a silver at the 2012 London Olympics.

    He was the European champion in 2007.

    Besik won the World Championships in 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

    He died in a car crash on 29 December 2013. He was considered one of the world's best freestyle wrestlers.

  • 30 Aug 2016

    Yogeshwar's bronze medal to be upgraded to silver?

    Yogeshwar's bronze medal to be upgraded to silver?
  • Indian wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt may be getting his 2012 London Olympics bronze medal upgraded to silver medal after the silver medallist tested positive for a banned substance.

    Russian wrestler Besik Kudukhov, who won silver at the London Olympics, tested positive for a banned substance in tests conducted on samples collected during the London Olympics.

    Following that, he has been stripped of his silver medal.

  • Data

    UWW confirms the news, waiting for IOC

  • The global governing body for wrestling, United World Wrestling, has confirmed the news saying that Besik Kudukov has tested positive for a banned substance and his silver medal has been taken away. They added that they are awaiting confirmation from the International Olympics Committee.

  • 26 Oct 2016

    Yogeshwar Dutt's bronze will not be upgraded to silver

    Yogeshwar Dutt's bronze will not be upgraded to silver
  • Yogeshwar Dutt's bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics will not be converted to a silver medal, after the International Olympics Committee (IOC) cleared the investigation on Besik Kudukhov.

    The IOC in a statement said that they "will not deprive wrestler Besik Kudukhov of his silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London."

    Notably, Dutt had also declined to get his medal upgraded.

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