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| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1987-06-06) 6 June 1987 Ludhiana, India | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 120 kg (260 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||
Event | Men's 125 kg | ||||||||||||||
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Chinu Sandhu (born 6 June 1987) is a British freestyle wrestler. He also goes by the name Chinu Chinu and Chinu XXX.[1]
Biography
Chinu competed for England in the men's freestyle 125 kg event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, where he won a bronze medal.[2] Chinu beat Claude Mbianga from Cameroon in the wrestling 125 kg men's freestyle "round of sixteen" (actually only four, since there were ten competitors in total, six getting byes) to progress to the quarter-finals where he beat Zaman Anwar from Pakistan. In the semifinals he lost to eventual gold medal winner Canadian Korey Jarvis. He beat Hollis Mkanga from Kenya in the repechage to win one of the two bronze medals for the event.
He won four titles at the British Wrestling Championships.[3][4]
In 2017 Sandhu received a four year ban for a doping violation.[5][6]
References
- ^ "Glasgow 2014 profile". Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
- ^ Zaccardi, Nick (29 July 2014). "Chinu Xxx wins Commonwealth Games bronze". NBC Sports. US. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
- ^ "List of British Senior Champions from 1904 to 2001" (PDF). British Wrestling. Retrieved 20 December 2025.
- ^ "British Senior Champions 2002 to 2008". British Wrestling. Retrieved 20 December 2025.
- ^ "British wrestler Chinu Sandhu gets four-year ban for doping violation". DNA India. 30 September 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2025.
- ^ "British wrestler Chinu Sandhu banned for four years for doping violation". Sky Sports. 22 March 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2025.
External links
- Chinu Sandhu on Facebook
- Chinu Xxx wins Commonwealth Games bronze; how the wrestler got his name at NBC Sports
- Chinu Sandhu at the International Wrestling Database
- Chinu at Team GB (archived)
- Chinu Xxx at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games (archived)
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