Kabadi is a team and friendship game. Kabadi is contain two teams of seven players, the objective of the game is for a single player on offense, referred to as a raider, to run into the opposing team's half of the court, touch out as many of their players and return to their own half of the court, all without being tackled by the defenders in 30 seconds.
Points are scored for each player tagged by the raider, while the opposing team earns a point for stopping the raider. Players are taken out of the game if they are touched or tackled, but are brought back in for each point scored by a tackle.
Highest governing body
International Kabaddi Federation.
Contact
Full
Team members
7 (per side)
Type
Team sport, Contact sport
Equipment
None
Venue
Kabaddi court.
Country or region
Ancient India
Olympic
Demonstration sport: 1936 Olympics.
It is popular in the Indian subcontinent and other surrounding Asian countries. Although accounts of kabaddi appear in the histories of ancient India, the game was popularised as a competitive sport in the 20th century. It is the state game of the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Telangana, and Uttar Pradesh.
There are two major disciplines of kabaddi: "Punjabi kabaddi", also referred to as "circle styles", comprises traditional forms of the sport that are played on a circular field outdoors, while the "standard style", played on a rectangular court indoors, is the discipline played in major professional leagues and international competitions such as the Asian Games.
Movies
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Okkadu (Telugu; 2003): A state-level kabaddi player trying to prove his parents that he can be successful in it. The film was subsequently remade in four other Indian languages.
Ghilli (Tamil; 2004): A state-level kabaddi player trying to prove his parents that he can be successful in it. It was a box office hit.
Ajay (Kannada; 2006): A state-level kabaddi player trying to prove his parents that he can be successful in it. It was a Blockbuster.
Student of the Year 2 (Hindi; 2019): A kabaddi player tries to become student of the year.
Panga (Hindi; 2020): A former kabaddi world champion attempts a comeback after being a mother for 7 years.
Television
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Burning Kabaddi (2021): A Japanese anime about a high school Kabaddi team. It is based on the manga of the same name. The Kabaddi World Cup is an outdoor international standard style kabaddi competition conducted by the International Kabaddi Federation (IKF), contested by men's and women's national teams. The competition has been previously contested in 2004, 2007 and 2016. All the tournaments have been won by India. India defeated Iran by 38–29 in the final of the championship game to clinch the title of 2016. After the establishment of a new kabaddi organization named World Kabaddi Federation,[21] a 2019 Kabaddi World Cup was held in April 2019 at Malacca, Malaysia. It was the largest world cup in kabaddi history, consisting of 32 men’s teams and 24 women’s teams.
Asian Games
Kabaddi was played as a demonstration event at the First Asian Games in 1951, and again in 1982, before becoming a medal event for the first time in 1990.
The Indian national team won every men's and women's kabaddi competition in the Asian Games from 2002 through 2014. At the 2018 Asian Games, Iran became the first country other than India to win gold medals in kabaddi, with India's men's team winning bronze, and India's women's team being beaten by Iran to win silver.
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