Sunil Kumar grapples his way to bronze at Asian C’ship

Sunil Kumar. Pic/AFP

Indian wrestler Sunil Kumar won the bronze medal in the 87kg Greco Roman bout of the Asian Championship here on Tuesday.

In the bronze medal match, Sunil beat China's Jiaxin Huang 5-1 having lost the semi-finals of the 87kg bout in the continental tournament to Iran's Yasin Yazdi, who beat Kumar 3-1.

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Sunil, a silver medallist in 2019 who is looking to regain some of his old magic, had earlier registered a 10-1 victory over Tajikistan's Sukhrob Abdulkhaev in the quarter-final. Meanwhile, Kumar's compatriots could not muster the same kind of results.

Sagar Thakran lost in the 77kg quarter-final bout to Jordan's Amro Sadeh, while Nitin (55kg) and Prem (130kg) were ousted in the qualification round.

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