Rahul Chaudhari

Rahul Chaudhari
Personal information
Nationality Indian
Citizenship Indian
Born (1993-07-16) 16 July 1993
Years active 2014-present
Sport
Country India
Sport Kabaddi
Position Raider
League Pro Kabaddi League
Club Telugu Titans
Team India national kabaddi team

Rahul Chaudhari is an Indian professional Kabaddi player. He is popularly known as the poster boy of Indian kabaddi. He is very famous in International Kabaddi. He was the member of the India national kabaddi team that won gold medal in the 2016 South Asian games. He also plays in Pro Kabaddi League for Telugu Titans team since 2014.He is one of the retained player of Telugu titans.He is also member of kabaddi world cup 2016 representing Indian team .

Early life

Rahul Chaudhari was born in Bijnore district, Uttar Pradesh. He started playing Kabaddi in 2006 from his school days when he was just 13-year-old. With no initial support, he emerged as a professional kabaddi player. He also captained Indian Kabaddi team in 2014 during Beach Asian games in Phuket, Thailand. His talent was identified by his coach Uday Kumar and the latter has selected him for his Telugu Titans team of PKL.[1]

Pro Kabaddi League

He is the captain of Telugu Titans team in the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL). He had the second most raid points in Season 1 (151) after Anup Kumar(155). He scored 98 raid points in the second season and 87 in the third season. He was adjudged the best raider of season 4 after finishing the season with a whopping 146 raid points, the highest in season 4. He holds the record for the most number of raid points (482) and total points (517) in the history of Pro Kabaddi.[2]

References

  1. "Interview with Rahul Chaudhari, "Parents Used to Beat for Playing Kabaddi in Childhood. he is the super player player in pkl third season he got [milestone in pkl] Now they call me everyday"". ,
  2. "Star Sports Pro Kabaddi - Rahul Chaudhari Player Profile | ProKabaddi.com". Star Sports Pro Kabaddi.


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