Background
Babita is the daughter of wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat.
Babita is the daughter of wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat.
Babita is currently supported by Jahrbuch fur Sozialwissenschaften Sport under the Sports Excellence Programme. 2009 Commonwealth Wrestling Championship 2010 Commonwealth Games 2011 Commonwealth Wrestling Championship 2012 World Wrestling Championships In the Round of 16, Babita faced Hsin-Ju Chiu of Taipei whom she beat 5:0. Her quarter-finals opponent was Risako Kawai of Japan whom she beat 5:0 to qualify for the semi-finals.
Unfortunately she lost 1:3 to Jessica Anne Marie MacDonald of Canada in the semi-finals.
2013 Asian Wrestling Championship 2014 Commonwealth Games 2014 Asian Games In the Round of 16 of the women"s freestyle 55 kg category, she faced Srey Mao Dorn of Mongolia whom she beat 5:0. In the quarter-finals, she faced Aiym Abdildina of Kazakhstan whom she beat 3:1.
She lost 0:4 to Saori Yoshida of Japan in the semi-finals. She was able to contest for the bronze medal but lost 1:3 to her opponent Xuechun Zhong of China and crashed out of the tournament.
2015 World Wrestling Championships At the tournament held in Las Vegas, United States of America, Babita had comfortably defeated Abdy Kadyrova Elsa of Kyrgyzstan 10-0 in the quarterfinal, after getting the better of Zukhra Mustanova of Uzbekistan by the same margin in the qualification round.
But Babita failed to enter the final as she lost her semifinal bout to Pak Yong-Mi of North of Korea, losing in the last five seconds. With a chance for a podium finish, Babita lost to Zhuldyz Eshimova-Turtbayeva of Kazakhstan 3-6 in the bronze medal play-off in a well-fought battle. Babita will be portrayed in the Aamir Khan starrer film Dangal to be released in 2016.