Rich haul of medals for grapplers

Indian grapplers finished their campaign at the five-day Asian Wrestling Champ-ionship in Bangkok, Thailand, with nine medals, including a gold.

India were seventh overall in the medal table with the men’s and the women’s freestyle teams finishing fourth, while the Greco-Roman team occupied sixth place.

In the men’s freestyle category, Sandeep Tomar won the yellow metal in the 57kg and Om Prakash Vinod Kumar clinched the silver in the 70kg.

Indian women accounted for three medals with rising grappler Priyanka Phogat (55kg) bagging silver, while Vinesh Phogat (53kg) and Anita Tomar (63kg) settled for a bronze each.

In the mn’s 57kg feestyle, Tomar got the better of Jong Hak-jin of North Korea in the final bout to give India their lone gold.

Hardeep Singh claimed a Greco-Roman silver medal, while Gaurav Sharma bagged a bronze in 59kg category. In the 80kg category, Harpreet Singh beat his Uzbek rival Jonibek Otabekov for a bronze, while Naveen got the better of Sun He of China in 130kg for a third-place finish.