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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Indian wrestler}}<br />
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{{Infobox sportsperson<br />
| name = Nirmala Devi<br />
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1984|6|26|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Hisar district]], [[Haryana]], India<br />
| height = 162 cm<br />
| weight = 48 kg<br />
| sport = [[Wrestling]]<br />
| event = [[Freestyle wrestling|Freestyle]]<br />
| club = Centre Sports Club; Hisar<br />
| coach = [[Rajinder Singh (wrestler)|Rajinder Singh]]<br />
| medaltemplates = <br />
{{MedalCountry| {{IND}} }}<br />
{{MedalSport| Women's [[freestyle wrestling]]}}<br />
{{MedalCompetition|[[Asian Wrestling Championships|Asian Championships]]}}<br />
{{MedalSilver|[[2020 Asian Wrestling Championships|2020 New Delhi]]|50 kg}}<br />
{{MedalCompetition|[[Commonwealth Games]]}}<br />
{{MedalSilver|[[2010 Commonwealth Games|2010 New Delhi]]|[[Wrestling at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Women's freestyle 48 kg|48 kg]]}}<br />
{{MedalCompetition|[[Commonwealth Wrestling Championship|Commonwealth Championship]]}}<br />
{{MedalGold|2013 Johannesburg|48 kg}}<br />
{{MedalGold|2007 London|48 kg}}<br />
{{MedalGold|2005 Stellenbosch|48 kg}}<br />
{{MedalSilver|2017 Brakpan|50 kg}}<br />
{{MedalSilver|2009 Jalandhar|48 kg}}<br />
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'''Nirmala Devi''' (born 26 June 1984)<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.iat.uni-leipzig.de/datenbanken/dbwrestling/daten.php?spid=5F1E51CF149C447DAEF495047CA588AE |title=Nirmala, Devi (IND) |website=International Wrestling Database |access-date=24 August 2021}}</ref> is an Indian freestyle wrestler. She won a silver medal in the women's freestyle 48&nbsp;kg event at the [[2010 Commonwealth Games]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ndtv.com/article/commonwealth%20games/nirmala-devi-wins-silver-in-48-kg-freestyle-wrestling-57856|title=Nirmala Devi wins silver in 48 kg freestyle wrestling|work=[[NDTV]]|agency=[[Agence France-Presse]]|date=7 October 2010|access-date=24 August 2021}}</ref><br />
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She was born to Ishwar Singh and Kitabo Devi.<ref name="AmarUjala">{{Cite news|url=https://www.amarujala.com/photo-gallery/chandigarh/wrestler-nirmala-boora-defeated-olympian-wrestler-of-colombia-in-pro-wrestling-league-full-profile|title=पहलवान फौजी दादा की पहलवान बेटी से मिलिए, ओलंपियन को चटाई धूल|work=[[Amar Ujala]]|date=8 January 2017|access-date=2019-11-23|language=hi}}</ref> Nirmala is the eldest of Ishwar Singh's five children. Poonam, the youngest, is also a wrestler. Nirmala took up wrestling seriously in 2001 and then went on to win the national championship in the same year.<ref name="AmarUjala" /><br />
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She hails from [[Hisar district]] in [[Haryana]] and works for [[Haryana Police]]. She became a sub-inspector in 2007 after receiving a gold medal at the 2007 Commonwealth Championship in Canada. She also won a gold medal in international wrestling in Spain in 2010.<ref name="AmarUjala" /><br />
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[[Category:1984 births]]<br />
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[[Category:21st-century Indian women]]<br />
[[Category:Asian Games competitors for India]]<br />
[[Category:Asian Wrestling Championships medalists]]<br />
[[Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in wrestling]]<br />
[[Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for India]]<br />
[[Category:Female sport wrestlers from Haryana]]<br />
[[Category:Indian female sport wrestlers]]<br />
[[Category:People from Hisar district]]<br />
[[Category:Sportswomen from Haryana]]<br />
[[Category:Wrestlers at the 2010 Asian Games]]<br />
[[Category:Wrestlers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games]]<br />
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