Fatima Bano is a female

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coach from

Bhopal Bhopal (; ISO 15919, ISO: Bhōpāl, ) is the capital (political), capital city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of both Bhopal district and Bhopal division. It is known as the ''City of Lakes,'' due to ...

Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (; ; ) is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and the largest city is Indore, Indore. Other major cities includes Gwalior, Jabalpur, and Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, Sagar. Madhya Pradesh is the List of states and union te ...

, India. Born in a

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family, Fatima Bano started her career in

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by playing

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, in which she won three national medals. She was the born to Syed Nasrulla who worked in BHL and her mother Nisha Bane was a housewife. She became the first Muslim woman coach of the country to raise the strength of 20 players at the international level at her own expense. She has also trained Geeta-Babita Phogat and Sakshi Malik. Currently, she is teaching 27 students which comprise 12 girls and 15 boys for the Olympic games. In 1997, as advised by her Kabaddi coach, she went to

Patiala Patiala () is a city in southeastern Punjab, India, Punjab, northwestern India. It is the fourth largest city in the state and is the administrative capital of Patiala district. Patiala is located around the ''Qila Mubarak, Patiala, Qila Mubar ...

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and got trained as a wrestler. Under the guidance of her coach, Shakir Noor, she participated in various national and international wrestling championships and won awards. In 2003, she started her wrestling ring in Bhopal in a land given by the government. She was also given Four thousand Indian rupees as a monthly salary. She coaches children and teenagers – boys and girls. She also trained players from United States, Kazakhstan and

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. In 2001, Fatima Bano was presented with Vikram Award, the highest honour in sports given by the government of the state of

. She was the first wrestler to achieve this position.

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* Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Indian wrestling coaches Indian female sport wrestlers Sportspeople from Bhopal Sportswomen from Madhya Pradesh 20th-century Indian women 20th-century Indian people Sport wrestlers from Madhya Pradesh {{India-wrestling-bio-stub