Manjeet wins bronze in UWW ranking assortment wrestling event in Kyrgyzstan

Manjeet obtained a bronze throughout the males’s Greco Roman 55kg class to open India’s medal account throughout the UWW Ranking Series wrestling event proper right here on Thursday.

Manjeet misplaced to Ikhtiyor Botirov of Uzbekistan throughout the quarterfinals with the latter notching up victory by superiority (VSU1, 13-4). But, since Botirov reached the last word, Manjeet obtained a chance to fight for certainly one of many two bronze medals.

The Indian beat Yersin Abyir of Kazakhstan 14-9 by the use of VPO1 (winner with no technical superiority nevertheless the loser scores atleast 1 stage) to grab a bronze on the opening day of competitions.

Kazakhstan’s Marlan Mukashev beat Botirov throughout the gold medal bout.

In 60kg, Sumit reached the repechage spherical the place he misplaced to Balbai Dordokov of Kyrgyzstan. He had earlier misplaced to Nursultan Bazarbayev of Kazakhstan throughout the quarterfinals.

Neeraj moreover misplaced throughout the repechage spherical throughout the 67kg class.

Three completely different Indian wrestlers — Sunil Kumar (87kg), Narinder Cheema (97kg) and Sahil (130kg) — misplaced throughout the qualification stage.