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{{Short description|Indian wrestler}}
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'''Asit Kumar Saha''' (born 1950) is a former National level [[wrestler]]. He is now a wrestling coach in the State of [[West Bengal]], [[India]] and the General Secretary of [[West Bengal Wrestling Association]]. Asit was trained by his father [[Sudhir Saha]], International coach, from a very young age at [[Panchanan Bayam Samity]], Kolkata. Asit was a State Champion from (1965-1973) in both Freestyle and [[Greco-Roman wrestling]].<ref name=Asit /> He won the bronze medal in the [[Senior National Wrestling Championship]], 1969.<ref name=Asit>{{cite news|last=Saha|first=Sipra Sen|title=Girl Power|newspaper=The Statesman|date=7 June 2000}}</ref>
In 1978, he obtained his International [[International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles|FILA]] wrestling coaching license from Iran. Asit managed the [[Indian wrestling team]] for the [[1982 Asian Games]] held in Delhi. India won 1 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze medals. Asit also managed the Indian Wrestling team at the [[1987 South Asian Games]] held in Kolkata, India. India won 7 out of 9 gold medals in the Championship. Further to this, he has managed the Indian wrestling team in several International Championships including World Championship. In 1987, Asit obtained his FILA Judge-Referee license at the [[Asian Wrestling Championships]] in Mumbai.<ref name=Asit />

[[File:Asit Saha at the age 21.jpg|thumb|Asit Saha at Panchanan Bayam Samity]]

[[File:Asit Saha refereeing at an All India level tournament in Bihar.jpg|thumb|Asit Saha refereeing at an All India level tournament in Bihar]]

Below is a list of some of his achievements.

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| Year || Championship
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| 1987 || Manager,3rd [[British World Wrestling Championship]], Manchester (U.K)
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| 1987 || Judge/Referee, [[Asian Wrestling Championships]], Bombay
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| 1991 || Judge/Referee, Asian Wrestling Championships, Delhi
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| 2007 || Observer, 2nd [[Indo-Bangladesh Bangla Games]], Dhaka (Bangladesh)
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| 2008 || Director, [[Bangla–Bangladesh Wrestling Championship]], Kolkata.

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| 2008 || Director, [[Bangladesh-Bangla Wrestling Tournament]], Dhaka (Bangladesh).

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| 2009 || Judge/Referee, [[Bhagat Singh International Wrestling Tournament]], Jallandhar
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| 2009 || Judge/Referee, [[Commonwealth Wrestling Tournament]], Jallandhar
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| 2010 || Judge/Referee, [[Commonwealth Games]], Delhi
|}

Currently, Asit Kumar Saha holds the following positions listed below -
* General Secretary, West Bengal Wrestling Association <ref name=WFI>{{cite web|title=WFI|url=http://wrestlingfederationofindia.com/|publisher=Wrestling Federation of India|accessdate=13 July 2013}}</ref>
* Vice President, [[Wrestling Federation of India]]<ref name=WFI />
* Vice President, [[Bengal Olympic Association]]<ref name=Hindu>{{cite news|title=Clean sweep by Ajit Banerjee group|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-sports/clean-sweep-by-ajit-banerjee-group/article3879945.ece|accessdate=13 July 2013|newspaper=The Hindu|date=10 September 2012}}</ref>

Asit started Women's Wrestling in West Bengal.<ref name=Asit /> His trainee Runu Ghoroi is the first [[National Institute of Sports]] wrestling coach in the State of West Bengal.<ref name=Runu>{{cite news|last=Deb|first=Sikha|title=Banglar Pratham NIS Kushti coach Runu Ghoroi (Bengali)|newspaper=Dainik Statesman (Bengali)|date=10 July 2013}}</ref> In the [[Bangla - Bangladesh tournament]] 2011 held at Barasaat, West Bengal won 6 out of 8 gold medals in women's wrestling. Under his leadership, the 58th [[Senior National Wrestling Championship]] was held in Kolkata, India from 14 - 17 Nov 2013 at the Netaji Indoor Stadium after 75 years.<ref name="National Wrestling">{{cite web|title=Kolkata to host National Wrestling |url=http://www.newswala.com/Sports-News/Kolkata-to-host-National-Wrestling-41024.html |accessdate=13 July 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102111755/http://www.newswala.com/Sports-News/Kolkata-to-host-National-Wrestling-41024.html |archivedate=2 November 2013 }}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Indian wrestling coaches]]
[[Category:Sport wrestlers from Kolkata]]
[[Category:Indian sports coaches]]

Asit Kumar Saha - Revision history

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