Career
Lila Ram competed in the freestyle wrestling in heavyweight and super heavyweight categories at the national as well as international level Lila Ram was on 30 November 1930, in Mandola village of Bhiwani district in a farmer’s family. In 1948, he joined the Grenadiers Regimental Centre, which was located at Nasirabad at that time, where his career in wrestling began.
Lila Ram was the captain of the wrestling team, which participated in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
In this event, he defeated wrestlers from Canada, Pakistan and England in the earlier rounds of the event. In 1956, during the Indo-Iran Tests, he defeated Rustam-e-Iran Mohammed Ali.
After retiring from active wrestling, he maintained his links with sports. He was the chief coach of the Indian wrestling team which participated in the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City and the World Wrestling Championships held in Delhi.
His remained as a coach of the Services team till 1973.
He served the Sports Department of the Government of Haryana as Assistant Director of Sports from 1980 to 1988. He died on 11 October 2003 in Charkhi Dadri in Bhiwani district.