#4 Sakshi Malik
The fourth person on our list is Sakshi Malik, who became India’s fourth female Olympic medalist. She won the bronze medal in the 58 kg freestyle wrestling category at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Sakshi chose an interesting way to motivate herself for the Rio Olympics. She got her photograph framed with the words ‘I will win’ printed in the background. Before leaving for Rio, she did not buy her brother a rakhi. Instead, she told him, "Main tere liye medal leke aaoongi, wohi teri rakhi hogi.” (I will bring a medal for you. That will be your rakhi).
Hailing from Haryana, which is considered to be the breeding ground of Indian wrestlers, she won a silver medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and a bronze medal at the 2015 Asian Wrestling Championships in Doha.
