Sudhir Saha

Sudhir Saha (1918–1998) was a wrestler, coach and wrestling administrator in India. He introduced Greco-Roman wrestling in India.

Sudhir Saha was the youngest son of Nandalal Saha and started wrestling at the age of six. Sudhir Saha was trained by his father Nandalal Saha, and subsequently by Ustad (meaning 'expert' in Hindi, a title commonly given to coaches) Majid Palwan from Lahore. Sudhir won the West Bengal State Wrestling Championship from the year 1935-1944 in the freestyle wrestling category. In the 1940 Senior National Wrestling Championship, Sudhir placed first in the middleweight category. After his wrestling career, Sudhir devoted his time to coaching and judge/refereeing. One of Sudhir's trainees, K.D. Jadhav, won the bronze medal in the Bantam weight Category in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. and the Judge/Referee Association of India. He started his refereeing career in 1953, supervising more than 1500 wrestling bouts.

Year Place Name Competition Style Weight Rank 1974 Christchurch Sudesh Kumar Commonwealth Games Freestyle 52 1 1974 Christchurch Premnath Commonwealth Games Freestyle 57 1 1974 Christchurch Jagrup Commonwealth Games Freestyle 68 1 1974 Christchurch Raghunath Pawar Commonwealth Games Freestyle 74 1 1970 Bangkok Chandagi Ram Asian Games Freestyle 100 1 1970 Edinburgh Ved Prakash Commonwealth Games Freestyle 48 1 1970 Edinburgh Sudesh Kumar Commonwealth Games Freestyle 52 1 1970 Edinburgh Udey Chand Commonwealth Games Freestyle 68 1 1970 Edinburgh Mukhtiar Singh Commonwealth Games Freestyle 74 1 1970 Edinburgh Harish Chandra Commonwealth Games Freestyle 82 1 1966 Kingston Bishmbar Singh Commonwealth Games Freestyle 57 1 1966 Kingston Mukhtiar Singh Commonwealth Games Freestyle 70 1 1966 Kingston Bishmbar Singh Commonwealth Games Freestyle +97 1 1962 Jakarta Maruti Mane Asian Games Freestyle 97 1 1962 Jakarta Malwa Asian Games Greco-Roman 52 1 1962 Jakarta Ganpat Andalkar Asian Games Greco-Roman +97 1 1974 Christchurch Shivaji Chingle Commonwealth Games Freestyle 62 2 1974 Christchurch Satpal Singh Commonwealth Games Freestyle 82 2 1974 Christchurch Netar Pal Commonwealth Games Freestyle 90 2 1974 Christchurch Dadu Chogule Commonwealth Games Freestyle 100 2 1974 Christchurch Viswanath Singh Commonwealth Games Freestyle +100 2 1970 Bangkok Jit Singh Asian Games Freestyle 90 2 1970 Edinburgh Sajjan singh Commonwealth Games Freestyle 90 2 1970 Edinburgh Viswanath Singh Commonwealth Games Freestyle 100 2 1970 Edinburgh Maruti Mane Commonwealth Games Freestyle +100 2 1967 New Delhi Bishwambar Singh World Championship Freestyle 57 2 1966 Bangkok Biswanath Singh Asian Games Freestyle 97 2 1966 Kingston Shyamrao Sable Commonwealth Games Freestyle 57 2 1966 Kingston Randhawa Singh Commonwealth Games Freestyle 63 2 1962 Jakarta Udey Chand Asian Games Freestyle 70 2 1962 Jakarta Sajjan Singh Asian Games Freestyle 87 2 1962 Jakarta Ganpat Andalkar Asian Games Freestyle +97 2 1962 Jakarta Udey Chand Asian Games Greco-Roman 70 2 1962 Jakarta Sajjan Singh Asian Games Greco-Roman 87 2 1962 Jakarta Maruti Mane Asian Games Greco-Roman 97 2 1974 Tehran Satbir Asian Games Freestyle 57 3 1974 Tehran Satpal Singh Asian Games Freestyle 82 3 1974 Tehran Sukhchain Asian Games Freestyle 100 3 1974 Tehran Sukhchain Asian Games Greco-Roman 100 3 1974 Christchurch Radhey Shyam Commonwealth Games Freestyle 48 3 1970 Bangkok Om Prakash Asian Games Freestyle 68 3 1970 Bangkok Mukhtiar Singh Asian Games Freestyle 74 3 1970 Bangkok Netar Pal Asian Games Freestyle 82 3 1970 Edinburgh Randhawa Singh Commonwealth Games Freestyle 62 3 1966 Bangkok Shamrao Sable Asian Games Freestyle 52 3 1966 Bangkok Bishambar Singh Asian Games Freestyle 57 3 1966 Bangkok V.Chad Asian Games Freestyle 70 3 1966 Bangkok S.Singh Asian Games Freestyle 87 3 1966 Bangkok Bhim Singh Asian Games Freestyle +97 3 1966 Kingston Hukum Singh Commonwealth Games Freestyle 78 3 1966 Kingston Bishwanath Singh Commonwealth Games Freestyle 97 3 1962 Jakarta Malwa Asian Games Freestyle 52 3 1962 Jakarta Lakshmi Chand Gandey Asian Games Freestyle 78 3 1962 Jakarta Narin Ghume Asian Games Greco-Roman 57 3 1961 Yokohama Udey Chand World Championship Freestyle 67 3 1972 Munich Sudesh Kumar Olympic Games Freestyle 52 4 1972 Munich Premnath Olympic Games Freestyle 57 4 1965 Manchester Bishamber Singh World Championship Freestyle 57 4

During Sudhir's coaching career, wrestlers and officials from Panchanan Bayam Samity represented the State of West Bengal and India in International Championships.