NEW DELHI:Anil Kumar and Jyoti provided India two bronze medals with contrasting performances in their respective weight categories on the second day of the Asian Wrestling Championship, here today.
While Anil registered a thrilling come-from-behind 7-6 victory over Uzbekistan’s Muhammadali Shamsiddinov to clinch the bronze medal in the Greco-Roman 85kg category, Jyoti (women’s 75kg) won the bronze after she lost in the semifinal to Japan’s Masako Furuichi, as the Japanese girl made it to the gold medal round.
Anil fought hard to climb up the podium on the day when India bagged two medals out of five outings.
Having entered the bronze medal play-off after his opponent, who defeated him in the quarterfinal match, made the gold medal round, Anil showed fabulous skills and technique to finish third.
Lagging behind 1-6 and being pinned down by his Uzbekistan rival during the bronze medal bout, Anil did extremely well to not just release himself from his opponent’s grip of his opponent but also managed to take him down to earn two points. (AGENCIES)
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