ULAANBAATAR (Mongolia), Apr 20: Sachin Sahrawat and Harpeet Singh grabbed bronze medals on Wednesday as India’s Greco Roman contingent cherished its second best show at the Asian Championship with five medals. Competing in the 67kg category, Sachin dominated the bronze play-off, winning by fall against Uzbekistan’s Mahmud Bakhshilloev. This was after he lost his quarterfinal in a similar manner to Meiirzhan Shermakhanbet from Kazakhstan. Harpreet Singh (82kg) did not have to move a sinew in his medal bout as his […]
Tokyo 2020 Olympic medallists Aisuluu Tynybekova, Ravi Kumar, Bajrang
Punia and Akzhol Makhmudov are set to take to the floor of the Asian
Wrestling Championships in Ulaanbaatar.
NEW DELHI, Mar 25: World championships silver medallist Anshu Malik and bronze winner Sarita Mor will lead a 10-member Indian women’s wrestling team at the Asian Championships to be held in Ulaanbatar, Mongolia next month. While Anshu, a silver medallist in the 2021 World Wrestling Championships in Oslo, will represent in her pet 57kg category, Sarita will be take part in the 59kg section. Sarita is a bronze medallist in her category at the 2021 World Championships. The team was […]
Fortune favours the brave . No pain, no gain . In August this year, when Ravi Dahiya and Bajrang Punia returned from Tokyo Olympics, they were welcomed with such banners at the IGI airport. Both grapplers made India proud in Tokyo and also proved what athletes can do to win an Olympic medal.