Woman wrestler Sakshi Malik has finally ended India’s long wait for a medal at the Rio Olympics 2016. She won the bronze medal in the 58kg category, becoming only the fourth woman athlete from India to win an Olympic medal.
Everyone from the Prime Minister, legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar to top Bollywood celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan and Akshay Kumar took to Twitter to hail the woman from Rohtak.
Check out the tweets:
Narendra Modi: On this very auspicious day of Raksha Bandhan, Sakshi Malik, a daughter of India, wins a Bronze & makes all of us very proud. Sakshi Malik will inspire several sportspersons in the years to come.
Sachin Tendulkar : What great news to wake up to! Sakshi Malik, your resilience at #Rio2016 has made whole of India proud. Many Congratulations!!!
Amitabh Bachchan: T 2352 -“?????” ?? “??????” ?? ?? ????? ??? ??? ??????? ?? ????? ????? ?? … ???? ??? ?????? ?? ???? ????? ???? ???????? ?????? ?? ???? ??
Aamir Khan: Congratulations Sakshi Malik! 1st Indian female wrestler to win an Olympic medal. Well done. You have done India proud!
MS Dhoni: Great comeback by Sakshi Malik to win our 1st medal in Rio. Determination and self belief are the key for a performance like this. Congratulation.
Akshay Kumar: Here comes the first!Thank you & congratulations Sakshi Malik!You’re the reason for a billion smiles today
Ajay Devgn: Sakshi Malik We want you to know that India loves you. Go Girl …We celebrate you with pride.
Karan Johar: The innocent smile of achievement and our smile is of immense pride.. Sakshi Malik is the hope for the future..
Ali Abbas Zafar: Haryana ki Sheri “sakshi malik” 1st medal for India in wrestling ….salute to the girl power .
Virender Sehwag: Sakshi Malik is a reminder of what can happen if u don’t kill a girl child. When the going gets tough, its our girls who get going & save our pride.
Shahid Kapoor: Sakshi Malik thank you. Proud of every indian athlete that is fighting the best to make us shine.
Bipasha Basu: Sakshi Malik makes us so proud #Rio2016
Aditi Rao Hydari: Wohoooo! Congratulations Sakshi Malik and congratulations #india #GirlPower on #rakshabandhan
Sonam Kapoor: Sakshi Malik has proved that all you need is an opportunity. The rest, as they say, is history!
Riteish Deshmukh: & the Indian flag flies high..You have made every Indian proud. Congratulations on the Olympic Bronze Sakshi Malik
Good job. Arfa left Olympic this year for sultan otherwise she would’ve won gold medal for India.
Karma ! It took a women Athlete to SLAP Shobha De ! Thank you Olympic Medalist SAKSHI MALIK haryana ki Sherni ! ?#Wrestling ?Jai Hind !
Congratulations
Real life haryana ki sherni
thank you so much for making india proud
Kar di…chadiiiiiii…!!!
Sehwag’s tweet just killed it! Superb
Congratulation!!!!
Dangal will be heart touching movie..
After Dangal every one respects woman
Almighty………..Diva we have a proud on you.
Proud of you.
Thank you Sakhshi Malik and congrats ! You make us Proud !
virender sehwag’s tweet best of them.
Every one commented including the 2 biggest megastars of their respective generaion (Aamir Khan and Amitabh bachchan) Why no comment from Shah ROFL Khan and SaLOL khan???
so finally, a bronze?? anyways the quality of the players should be improved…and the politics should never involved in selection process…Only qualified athlets should represent India and not some fake kind of olympics medalists like sultan…:) because this is not a movie where you earn fame by body double….
Remember the NAME
Vinesh Phogat too had a great chance. Infact she’s one of the best in the world in under 48 category and had the best chance of winning a Gold. Unfortunately, she sustained an injury in her quarter final match. Anyway, many congratulations to Sakshi Malik!!! and yay to Girl Power!!!
@Rustom Hahahaha I too was thinking the same
lmao
congrats and proud of you .Hoping another from pv sindhu
congrats sakshi.true champion
Where is bhai’s golden medal news,which he won for 100 metre Blackbuck shoot?????,it’s not fare you missed bhai’s achievement.and also bhai won gold medal in 100 metre running after run I’ve cruzer over roadside innocents in hit-n-run glory.you missed all bhai’s achievements I’m not happy for this,rofl.
Congrat’s… I’m So Happy for You…
Congrats Sakshi!!
Congrats India!!
Happy for her..
Congrats girl…
PV sindhu …marvelous ….silver confirmed.. go for gold…
Congrats
Awesome stuff
@8:24pm complaining complanholic
Seems like media missed all those events bcoz suddenly there was more trivial sorry important news from the US where a galaxy superstar was yet again being strip searched at the airport….!
No tweet from Pluto King which could only mean 1 thing…. yup thats right- hes got himself deliberately detained again at an US airport so that he can be strip searched all over again…!
Indian athletes r just lucky whenever they win medal in Olympics …because next time they don’t win anything. …just a tukka…..last Olympics saina won bronze because Chinese player got injured. ..and this year we have seen the reality. …………so don’t jump with joy it’s just a fluke
We proud of you shakshi you are real champion of our country
WOW! Now P.V. Sindhu assures a gold or silver medal for India.
Hamaare ladkiyaan kya ladko se kam hai?
@Syed & @sss : Both of you proved once again which deshdrohi fan you are. Instead of congratulating n enjoying proud moment you both are indulge in some non sense. Srk would have tweeted if some gora friend had won some medal. Like idol like his fans !!!!!!!!!!!!