Yogeshwar Dutt says it was not a difficult decision to quit the mat since he did it for his favourite student Bajrang Punia, who he thinks can go on to become India's first wrestler to win an Olympic gold.

Yogeshwar is only the third Indian wrestler to win an Olympic medal - a bronze at the 2012 London Games - after KD Jadhav and Sushil Kumar. In his successful career, Yogeshwar also won gold medals at the Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games in 2014.