Wrestler KD Jadhav did India proud by winning a bronze medal at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. But a technicality in the government rules for posthumous Padma Awards has rendered India’s first ever individual Olympic medallist ineligible for the coveted civilian honour and his son Ranjit is so angry that he now wants to throw away the medal his ‘forgotten’ father won, PTI reported yesterday.

Jadhav, who died in 1984, is the only one among the entire lot of the country’s Olympic medallists not to have been conferred with the Padma Awards.