In Pics: Meet Ravi Dahiya, India's newest wrestling Olympic silver medallist

Indian wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya went down fighting against two-time world champion Zavur Uguev of ROC in the men's freestyle 57kg final. There were expectations that the 23-year Dahiya would become India's youngest Olympic champion but the Russian defended well to win comfortably. Dahiya had lost to Uguev at the 2019 World Championship also. With this, Dahiya has become India's newest wrestling Olympic silver medallist.

Ravi finally settled for a silver medal, and it took India's medal tally to five medals - two silver and three bronze. Dahiya emulated Olympian Sushil Kumar, who had last won the wrestling silver medal at the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Dahiya put on a sensational show on Wednesday (August 4) to enter the gold medal final in the 57kg category by defeating Kazakhstan's Nurislam Sanayev in the semifinal. (Image Credit: Reuters)

Dahiya, who fights like a monster, became just the second Indian wrestler ever to enter the Olympics final after Sushil Kumar back in 2012 London Olympics. (Image Credit: Reuters)

He is now only the fifth Indian wrestler to have won an Olympic medal after KD Jadhav, Sushil Kumar, Yogeshwar Dutt and Sakshi Malik. Jadhav had become India's first wrestler and also the first individual Olympic medallist when he won bronze during the 1952 Helsinki Games. (Image Credit: Reuters)

Dahiya will now take on Zaur Uguev of Russia in the final on Thursday (August 5) and can potentially become India's second-ever individual gold medallist at Tokyo Olympics after Abhinav Bindra back in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. (Image Credit: Reuters)

The 23-year Dahiya had won both his previous bouts on technical superiority en route the final. (Image Credit: Reuters)

Huge celebrations broke out in wrestler Ravi Dahiya's native village 'Nahri' in  Haryana's Sonipat after he stormed into the finals of the Tokyo Games to assure India of a fourth Olympic medal. (Image Credit: Reuters)

Dahiya, who is the son of a farmer, is the third Olympian to emerge from this village after Mahavir Singh (1980 Moscow, 1984 Los Angeles) and Amit Dahiya (London 2012). (Image Credit: Reuters)