NEW DELHI: A diminutive 23-year-old girl from Mokhra village near Rohtak in Haryana, Sakshi Malik, touched glory at the Rio Olympics on Wednesday by reaching out and grabbing the only medal India has been able to win at the 31st Olympiad.


What's even more astonishing is that she is the only women wrestler from the village which has produced several achievers in the field. Sakshi brought an end to India's long medal wait, when every hopeful had failed one by one.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated woman wrestler who give India its first medal at the on going Olympics in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro.