Gurpreet\, Sunil settle for silver at Asian Wrestling C\'ships

Gurpreet, Sunil settle for silver at Asian Wrestling C'ships

Press Trust of India  |  Xi'an (China) 

India's and settled for a silver medal each in their respective Greco-Roman categories at the Asian Wrestling Championships here on Saturday.

Gurpreet had to be satisfied with a second spot after being handed a 0-8 defeat by Hyeonwoo Kim of Korea in the final of 77kg category.

However on his way to the final, Gurpreet put up an impressive show, thrashing Bakhit Sharif K Badr of 10-0 in the quarterfinals before eking out a narrow 6-5 victory over Tamerlan Shadukayev of in the last four round.

In 87kg, stormed into the final after prevailing over Azamat Kustubayev of 6-6 in his semifinal bout, while he had earlier beaten Tokhirdzhon Okhonov of 14-7 in the last eight stage.

But just like Gurpreet, Sunil too failed to clinch the top spot as he went down to of in the title clash.

Prem, who was another Indian in contention for a medal after he made the bronze-medal play-off in the 130kg class despite going down to Muminjon Abdullaev of in the quarterfinals, could not finish on the podium.

Prem had made it to the play-offs after Abdullaev reached the gold medal round.

Prem lost to Kazakhstan's Damir Kuzembayev in the third-fourth place fight.

Earlier in the day, India's campaign got over in the 55kg and 63kg weight divisions when Manjeet and lost their respective quarterfinal bouts to bow out of the tournament.

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First Published: Sat, April 27 2019. 18:55 IST