<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> 1952 Helsinki </Td> <Td> Bantamweight </Td> </Tr> <P> Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav (Marathi: श्री . खाशाबा दादासाहेब जाधव, January 15, 1926--August 14, 1984) was an Indian athlete . He is best known as a wrestler who won a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki . He was one of the first athletes from India to win a medal in the Olympics </P> <P> After Norman Pritchard who won two silver medals in athletics in 1900, Khashaba was the first individual athlete from India to win a medal at the Olympics . In the years before Khashaba, India would only win gold medals in field hockey, a team sport . He is the only Indian Olympic medalist who never received a Padma Award . Khashaba was extremely nimble on his feet, which made him different from other wrestlers of his time . English coach Rees Gardner saw this trait in him and trained him prior to the 1948 Olympic games . </P> <P> Born in a village called Goleshwar TalKarad District Satara in Maharashtra State, KD Jadhav was the youngest of five sons of a renowned wrestler Dadasaheb Jadhav . He did his schooling in Tilak High School in Karad district between 1940--1947 . He grew up in a household that lived and breathed wrestling. He participated in the Quit India Movement providing shelter and a hiding place to the revolutionaries, circulating letters against the British were some of his contributions to the movement . He resolved to unfurl the tri-color flag in Olympics on Independence Day August 15, 1947 . </P>

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