S. Rajarathinam
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| Full name | Subbiah Rajarathnam | ||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | INDIA | ||||||||||||||||
| Born | Ganapathipuram, Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India | ||||||||||||||||
| Years active | 1980–1994 | ||||||||||||||||
| Employer | Indian Railways | ||||||||||||||||
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| Country | INDIA | ||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Kabaddi | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||||
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S. Rajarathinam (sometimes rendered S. Rajarathnam) is an Indian former kabaddi player and coach from Tamil Nadu. He was a member of India’s gold-medal winning squads at the Asian Games and served as captain of the national side at the 1994 Asian Games. He received the Arjuna Award in 1994 for his contributions to kabaddi.[1][2]
Early life
Rajarathinam is from Ganapathipuram in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu. Local and regional reporting describes his early years playing kabaddi on village clay courts and progressing through district and state competitions before appearing on the national stage.[2]
Playing career
Domestic
Regional coverage and later interviews note that Rajarathinam played for Tamil Nadu teams in national events and later represented Indian Railways in inter-railway competitions. The available sources describe his rise through the domestic circuit but do not provide a full season-by-season record in printed form.[2][3]
International
Rajarathinam was part of India's men's kabaddi teams that won gold medals at the Asian Games. Contemporary and retrospective reporting identify him as a squad member in 1990 and as captain in the 1994 Hiroshima Games, when India beat Pakistan in the final replay to take gold.[2][3][4]
Coaching and administration
After retiring from playing, Rajarathinam moved into coaching and worked with players and teams at state and club level. He has appeared in coaching features and regional broadcasts discussing training methods and the traditional clay-court game.[5]
He has also been involved in administration and selection-related matters: national media coverage documents his participation in disputes and petitions concerning selection procedures for national teams in the late 2010s.[6]
Awards and honours
- Arjuna Award (1994) – listed by the Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India among kabaddi award recipients.[1]
- Member of India’s Asian Games gold-medal kabaddi teams (1990, 1994), as reported in regional and national coverage.[2][3]
In popular culture
Regional reporting and later media coverage note that the 2025 Tamil film Bison Kaalamaadan drew on the lives and achievements of several kabaddi players from Tamil Nadu, and that Rajarathinam’s 1994 captaincy is one of the real-life events celebrated in press coverage of the film.[7][2][3]
Notes on sources and scope
This draft uses only the following published sources: two Times of India items, an Indian Express / PTI report, a first-person opinion piece by S. Rajarathinam in The New Indian Express, the Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India’s award listing, a OneIndia (Tamil) profile, a Jazzbaat24 feature, and a Doordarshan Tamil (DD Tamil) video interview. Material not supported by these sources has been omitted or removed. If further archival newspaper material or federation records become available, the article can be expanded with more detail and contemporary citations.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Award Winners – Arjun Award Winners of Kabaddi". Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India. Retrieved 16 November 2025.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "கபடியின் நிஜ 'பைசன்' பாகிஸ்தானை எதிர்த்து ஜெயித்த ரியல் ஹீரோ ராஜரத்தினம்!" [Kabaddi's real 'Bison': the real hero Rajarathinam who defeated Pakistan]. OneIndia Tamil (in தமிழ்). 27 October 2025. Retrieved 16 November 2025.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Daga, Priya (26 October 2025). "Bison Kaalamaadan Celebrates Real-Life Kabaddi Hero S. Rajarathinam". Jazzbaat24. Retrieved 16 November 2025.
- ↑ Rajarathinam, S. (9 May 2019). "IPKL a new avenue for kabaddi talent in the country". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 16 November 2025.
- ↑ Rajarathinam – Kabaddi Coach. DD Tamil (Doordarshan Tamil). August 2024. Retrieved 16 November 2025.
- ↑ "Indian kabaddi further shamed amid confused 'selection' trials". The Times of India. 15 September 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2025.
- ↑ Ghosh, Avijit (11 June 2018). "How a farmer's son became a kabaddi crorepati". The Times of India. Retrieved 16 November 2025.
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