Asiad medals elude Indian grapplers Tuesday


Incheon, Sep 30 (IANS): Indian grapplers returned empty handed Tuesday at the Asian Games as Krishankant Yadav lost his men's greco-roman (71 kg) category bronze medal match while two compatriots -- Ravinder Singh and Harpreet Singh -- also bowed out of competition at the Dowon Gymnasium here.

Yadav lost 0-3 to Iran's Saeid Abdvali on technical points -- the loser without points -- after conceding a 0-4 lead in the first period and losing the second period 0-2.

Earlier, he lost 0-4 to South Korea's Jihyun Jung in the quarter-finals. Yadav was beaten on the basis of greater superiority of his opponent.

The match was stopped after one minute and 52 seconds as Jung amassed a difference of eight points with Yadav failing to win a single point.

In the men's greco-roman 59 kg quarter-final, Ravinder was beaten by Kazakhstan's Almat Kebispayev 0-3 on the basis of technical points. Ravinder trailed 0-1 after the first period and both wrestlers didn't score a single point in the second period.

To add to India's disappointment, Harpreet also went down in the men's greco-Roman 80 kg last-eight match to Uzbekistan's Besiki Saldadze. He lost 1-3 on technical points.

Harpreet made a great start to the bout, clinching the first period 2-0 but failed to keep the momentum, losing the second quarter 0-4 to surrender the tie.

  

Top Stories


Leave a Comment

Title: Asiad medals elude Indian grapplers Tuesday



You have 2000 characters left.

Disclaimer:

Please write your correct name and email address. Kindly do not post any personal, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful or similar comments. Daijiworld.com will not be responsible for any defamatory message posted under this article.

Please note that sending false messages to insult, defame, intimidate, mislead or deceive people or to intentionally cause public disorder is punishable under law. It is obligatory on Daijiworld to provide the IP address and other details of senders of such comments, to the authority concerned upon request.

Hence, sending offensive comments using daijiworld will be purely at your own risk, and in no way will Daijiworld.com be held responsible.