Back in action after three-long years, two-time Olympic-medallist Sushil Kumar took less than three minutes to bag a gold medal as three of his rivals gave him a walk over in men’s 74kg freestyle competition of the National Wrestling championship.<\/p>\n
Sushil battled for just 2 minutes and 33 seconds in total on the mat as he fought only two of his initial round bouts before three of his opponents — in the quarterfinal, semifinal and final — gave him a walk over.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, India’s lone woman Olympic medal winner Sakshi Malik and popular ‘Dangal girl’ Geeta Phogat also bagged a gold medal each in their respective weight categories of women’s wrestling on the second day of the marquee domestic event.<\/p>\n
Geeta beat Ravita in the final of the 59 kg category.<\/p>\n
Sakshi finished on the top of the podium after posting a dominating 10-0 victory over Pooja of Haryana in women’s 62kg, while Geeta also clinched the yellow metal<\/p>\n
Even Geeta’s husband Pawan Kumar also managed to finish on top in 86kg.<\/p>\n
All eyes were on Sushil today and India’s greatest individual Olympian hardly had to break sweat as India international Parveen Rana decided to concede his bout against the 34-year-old.<\/p>\n
Rana reportedly was carrying a niggle which could have been aggravated had he fought the bout.<\/p>\n
Earlier, it was Sachin Dahiya gave him a walkover in the semifinals, enabling his smooth passage to the gold-medal round.<\/p>\n
In the quaretfinals, Praveen had also given his more fancied opponent a walkover.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Sushil showed that class is permanent as he took less than two minutes to get past his opponents in the initial rounds, before three of his rivals gave him a walkover.<\/p>\n
Sushil overpowered Mizoram’s Lalmalsawma by technical fall in 48 seconds in the first round and then pinned down Mukul Mishra in just a minute and 45 seconds in his next bout.<\/p>\n
Geeta had registered a come-from-behind win to make it to the finals of 59kg with a 8-4 result over Sarita Mor 8-4 in her semifinal bout.<\/p>\n
Sakshi, in her opening bout, pinned down her rival in just 39 seconds and eventually sailed into the final of 62kg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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