patiala less than a week after five powerlifters including world champion saksham yadav were killed in a car accident on the delhiharyana border another road accident on wednesday evening killed one of indias best known wrestlers and coacheswinner of the bronze medal at the 1974 tehran asiad and recipient of the dronacharya award sukhchain singh cheema 68 died when his car was hit by an alto on the patiala bypass at around 7 pm the impact overturned his etios liva car leaving him with severe head injuriessukhchain who was driving his car was on the way to his farmhouse in bhandri village when an alto hit his car near mein village the car overturned and fell into a drain nearby passersby and the occupants of the alto car tried to pull sukhchain out of the mangled remains of his car but were not able to open the damaged doors police officials told toi that precious time was lost at the first responders did not have the tools to cut open the cars doorswith help from more people the rescuers finally managed to pull open one of the doors and pull sukhchain out they rushed him to the government rajindra hospital but he was declared brought dead by the doctors the occupants of the alto received minor injuries and were discharged from hospital after treatmentsukhchain belonged to virtually the first family of wrestling in punjab having shifted to patiala from pakistan after partition the cheemas received the patronage from the last ruler of patiala state maharaja yadwinder singh sukhchains father kesar singh had won the rustamehind and bharat kesri titles and represented india at the 1952 helsinki olympics the familys traditional akhara is located a stones throw from national institute of sports in patialadoctors at rajindra hospital said when sukhchain was brought in no one could recognise him as he had suffered injuries on the forehead and his face was splattered with blood police officials managed to track down the family from the details of the cars registration number it was his olympian son palwinder cheema who reached the hospital at around 930 pm and confirmed that the deceased was sukhchainpalwinder and the rest of the family refused to initiate any legal action against the driver of the alto car as he had himself rushed sukhchain to hospital palwinder said he had not only lost his father but also his guru who had trained him the void will never be filled he said given the strong tradition of wrestling in the familys palwinder too took to the sport and was conferred the arjuna award for his achievements