India’s Greco Roman grapplers win five medals

India’s Greco Roman grapplers won five medals at the ongoing Asian wrestling championships in Mongolia’s Ulaanbaatar after Harpreet Singh and Sachin Sahrawat claimed a bronze each on the second day. Harpreet won the bronze in the 82kg category after his rival, Qatar’s Jafar Khan, didn’t take the mat owing to an injury. Earlier, the Indian had lost to Rasoul Garmsiri in his quarterfinal bout. In the 67kg category, Sachin registered a win ‘by fall’ over Uzbekistan’s Mahmud Bakhshilloev to clinch the bronze.
The Indian had lost to 2018 World bronze medalist Meiirzhan Shermakhanbet from Kazakhstan in his quarterfinal bout after his opponent gained an arm lock and somersaulted Sachin onto his back before getting a headlock for a fall.
Earlier, former Asian champion Sunil Kumar (87kg), Arjun Halakurki (55kg) and Neeraj (63kg) won bronze medals. This was India’s second-best show at the Asian Championships after the country’s Greco Roman wrestlers had claimed gold and four bronze at the 2020 edition of the meet in Delhi.
In the other bouts of the day involving Indians, Gyanendra lost his bronze play-off to Japan’s Ayata Suzuki by technical superiority in the 60kg category. Vikas was defeated by Uzbekistan’s Mirzobek Rakhmatov in the 72kg category, while Ravi lost to Kyrgyzstan’s Uzur Dzhuzupbekov in the 97kg division.