Phogat sisters

Family of female wrestlers

"Phogat" redirects here. For the village in Haryana, see Phogat, Charkhi Dadri.

The Phogat sisters are six sisters from Haryana, India, all of whom are wrestlers.

In order of their birth, they are Geeta, Babita, Priyanka, Ritu, Vinesh, and Sangeeta.^[1] Geeta, Babita, Ritu, and Sangeeta are daughters of former wrestler and coach Mahavir Singh Phogat. Priyanka and Vinesh were brought up by Mahavir after their father (and Mahavir's younger brother), Rajpal Phogat, died when they were young.^[2] Mahavir trained all six of them in wrestling in their home village of Balali in Bhiwani district.^[3][4][5]

Three of the Phogat sisters, Geeta, Babita, and Vinesh, are gold medalists in different weight categories at the Commonwealth Games, while Priyanka has won a silver medal at the Asian Championships.

Ritu is a National Championships gold medalist and Sangita has won medals at age-level internat