Olympian Sakshi Malik Named In Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People Of 2024 List
Olympics bronze medallist Indian wrestler Sakshi Malik has been listed among the 100 most influential people of 2024 by Time magazine. Sakshi has been honoured for her relentless fight against alleged sexual harassment of female wrestlers by former Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
Olympics bronze medallist Indian wrestler Sakshi Malik has been listed among the 100 most influential people of 2024 by Time magazine. Sakshi who in 2016 became India's first female Olympic medallist in wrestling, has been honoured for her relentless fight against alleged sexual harassment of female wrestlers by former Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
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2023 wrestlers' protest
¡°Proud to be included in the 2024 #TIME100 list,¡± Sakshi wrote on X.
The 31-year-old from Rohtak, Haryana had become one of the faces of the unprecedented wrestlers' protest in Delhi in 2023 demanding action against the then-WFI president.
Sakshi along with two-time World Championships bronze medallist Vinesh Phogat and Tokyo Olympics bronze winner Bajrang Punia spearheaded the protest against Singh at the Jantar Mantar, demanding his arrest for intimidating and allegedly sexually harassing female grapplers of the country.
What Sakshi said about wrestlers' protest
"This fight is no longer only for India's female wrestlers," said Sakshi of the movement she helped spark.
"It is for the daughters of India whose voices have been silenced time and again."
Sakshi's wrestling career
Sakshi who was 1992 in Rohtak to Sukhbir, a DTC bus conductor and Sudesh Malik, a supervisor at a local health clinic began wrestling at the age of 12.
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Her first major international achievement came in 2010 at the Junior World Championships where she won the bronze medal in the 58 kg category.
She made her Commonwealth Games debut in 2014 in Glasgow, winning silver in the 58 kg category.
Two years later in 2016 at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, Sakshi won the bronze medal in the 58 kg category, a first for an Indian female wrestler.
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Sakshi who has been honoured with the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna award in 2016 and the Padma Shri in 2017 announced her retirement from wrestling in 2023.
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