Women grapplers win two bronze in Asian Wrestling

Published Sat, May 15 10 12:06 AM

New Delhi, May 14 (PTI) Indian women grapplers followed up with their male counterparts'' fine show with Alka Tomar and Suman Kundu winning a bronze each on the third day of the Senior Asian Wrestling Championship here today. Asian Games medallist Alka Tomar (59kg) and Suman Kundu (63kg) won a bronze each in the Repechage round after falling out of contention for gold and silver. Tomar, 2006 Asian Games bronze medallist, beat Miruert Dynbayeva of Kazakhstan 3-3, 2-1 in Freestyle Repechage to win the bronze. She had lost to Chinese Liu Fengming in the semifinal at the state-of-the-art Wrestling Stadium at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Sports Complex. Kundu got the better of Olga Kalinina of Kazakhstan in 63kg Repechage round to secure the second bronze for India and her first Asian Championship medal. Other four Indians, however, missed out on a medal in their respective Repechage rounds. Nirmala Devi lost her Repechage round against Sim-Hyang So of People''s Republic of Korea in the 48kg category, while in the 51kg category Babita Kumari lost her Repechage bout to Japan''s Hiromi Sakurai. Geetika Jakhar was beaten by her Chinese opponent Chen Ying in the Repechage round in 67kg category. Anmol, in 72kg category, lost her Repechage round bout to Inoue Yoshiko of Japan. With the two bronze today, India''s medal tally has risen to four, including two gold. Yesterday, in the men''s section, Olympic bronze medallist Sushil Kumar and Narshing Yadav had bagged a gold in the 66kg and 74kg freestyle respectively.

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