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Born | Hisar district, Haryana, India | 26 June 1984||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 162 cm (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 48 kg (106 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Centre Sports Club; Hisar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Rajinder Singh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Nirmala Devi (born 26 June 1984) [1] is an Indian freestyle wrestler. She won a silver medal in the women's freestyle 48 kg event at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. [2]
She was born to Ishwar Singh and Kitabo Devi. [3] Nirmala is the eldest of Ishwar Singh's five children. Poonam, the youngest, is also a wrestler. Nirmala took up wrestling seriously in 2001 and then went on to win the national championship in the same year. [3]
She hails from Hisar district in Haryana and works for Haryana Police. She became a sub-inspector in 2007 after receiving a gold medal at the 2007 Commonwealth Championship in Canada. She also won a gold medal in international wrestling in Spain in 2010. [3]