3 MEDALS FOR INDIAN WRESTLERS AT JUNIOR WORLD WITH A RARE BRONZE IN GRECO-ROMAN

INDIA'S MEDAL WIN IN GRECO-ROMAN AT WORLD WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIPS IS A BREAKING NEWS IN SPORTS CURRENT EVENTS.

One of the top news in world news sports is that India has ended their campaign today with 3 Medals in Junior World Wrestling Championships in Tampere, Finland. In-spite all of the medals being bronze, it could be deemed as a successful outing for Indian wrestlers as they return with medals in all 3 categories- Men's Freestyle, Women's Freestyle and Men's Greco-Roman. On the top of it, India has won a medal in Greco-Roman category, which is always considered a weak point for Indian wrestling. Wrestling, as a sport, is always a successful medal hunt for India, but still this is a rare occasion in sports today, as after several years, an Indian wrestler wins a medal in Greco-Roman. Sajan Bhanwal in 74kg Greco-Roman had done that magic to win BRONZE and Manish Kundu in 60kg could have easily made it 2 medals for India in Greco-Roman if he hadn't lost out narrowly in the bronze medal bout.



In Men's Freestyle 74kg, Veer Dev Gulia won BRONZE and in Women's Freestyle 59kg, Manju Kumari won BRONZE.  In 2016 Junior World Championship, India failed to win any medals and in

2015 Junior World Championship bagged only a Silver courtesy Ravi Kumar in 55kg Men's Freestyle. So, this has been a better result for India in recent times, even in terms of number of medals won.

INDIA WINS 3 MEDALS IN WORLD JUNIOR WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIP

MEDAL WINNERS:

MEN'S FREESTYLE:

74kg-Veer Dev Gulia wins BRONZE, defeating Japanese wrestler Yajuro Yamasaki 8-5 in bronze medal play-off bout. Gulia began his campaign beating Johann Christoph of Germany 6-2 in the 1/8 stage, but lost in the quarterfinals 0-11 to the Uzbek wrestler, Isa Shapiev. Gulia still made it to the bronze medal play-offs as Shapiev entered the gold medal round. So,Gulia got another chance and he took full advantage of it, defeating Ty Stuart Bridgwater of Canada 5-0 in his repechage bout.

WOMENS FREESTYLE:

59kg-Manju Kumari won the bronze medal with a 2-0 victory over Ilona Prokopevniuk of Ukraine. She started off well with a dominating 5-1 victory over Bulgaria's Aleksandrina Nikolaeva Kashinova in the 1/8 stage but was outclassed 0-10 by Japan's Yuzuru Kumano in her quarterfinal bout. With the Japanese advancing to the gold medal match, Manju got another chance. In her repechage bout, Manju got the better of Tianna Grace Kennett of Canada 4-0 to reach the bronze-medal play-offs, where she beat Ilona to reach the podium.

MEN'S GRECO-ROMAN:

74kg-Sajan Bhanwal bagged a bronze medal in Greco-Roman category after defeating Ali Osman Erbay of Turkey 6-1. Sajan reached R16 after a win over Antonio Kamenhasevic(CRO) by 7-2. But in R16, he lost tamely 2-10 to Akzhol Makhmudov(KGZ). Courtesy of his opponent reaching the final, Sajan got a lifeline which he utilized brilliantly, as he won 3 back to back matches, bulldozing Per-Anders Kure(NOR) 11-2 in Repechage Round1,  and Suleyman Erbay(TUR) 14-4 in Repechage Round2, before eventually claiming the bronze winning 6-1 the bronze medal bout.

OTHER NOTABLE PERFORMANCES

60kg Men's Greco-Roman-

Manish Kundu fought well to reach the bronze medal bout, but lost out on a medal to Hassan Mohamed(EGY) 3-4 in the medal match. Manish started his campaign on a winning note in Qualification, going past his oppoent Gabin Kim(KOR) by fall. Then he won in R16 8-5 against Seydylla Tazayev(TKM) and then thumping Krisztian Vancza(HUN) 10-0 in Quaterfinal, befor going down 1-3 to Keramat Abdevali(IRI) in a hardly fought match. He however made it to the bronze medal match, but was not lucky enough to make it to the podium. losing 3-4 in a close encounter.

60kg Men's Freestyle- 

Ravinder lost in Bronze Medal Match 6-9 against Japanese wrestler Hiromu Sakaki.

Ravinder started with a dominating win of 12-2 over Seokki Yoo(Korea). In R16, he got better of Ali Rahimzade(AZE) 5-4. And had a close fight 2-2 in the Quaterfinal against Tsogbadrakh(MGL). In Semifinal, he had a marathon bout against Mc Lee(USA), eventually losing out 14-16.

84kg Men's Freestyle-

Deepak Punia lost in Bronze Medal Match 0-10 against Iraninan wrestler Ahmad Yousef Bazrighaleh

Deepak started his campaign in R16, with a energy draining 18-12 win over Javrail Shapiev(UZB) and blew away his Quaterfinal opponent Bendeguz Toth(HUN) 4-0, before being outclassed by Zahid Valencia(USA) 0-11 in Semifinal and 0-10 by Ahmad Yousef(Iran) in the bronze medal playoffs.