Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], October 2 (ANI): Indian wrestler Sujeet Kalkal defeated Afghanistan’s Sayed Omar Zazai within the males’s freestyle 65kg spherical of 16 bout with an emphatic 13-3 technical superiority win over on Friday, main a string of optimistic outcomes for the nation on Day 13 of the continental showpiece.
Sujeet, thought-about one among India’s medal contenders within the class, conceded the primary three factors however responded strongly and didn’t permit his opponent to attain once more.
The Indian rapidly diminished the deficit earlier than producing a four-point transfer to take a 5-3 lead. He adopted it up with two successive two-point strikes, together with a flip and a roll, to take a 9-3 benefit on the finish of the opening interval, in accordance with ESPN.
Sujeet continued his attacking strategy within the second interval and accomplished the 10-point victory margin to convey the bout to an early finish at 13-3. He will conflict with Abbas Ebrahimzadehsavadkouhi in males’s freestyle 65kg quarterfinal in a while Friday.
India additionally registered a 3-1 (25-16, 25-20, 23-25, 25-23) win over South Korea within the males’s volleyball classification match for fifth to eighth locations.
The victory got here a day after India’s medal hopes within the volleyball competitors ended with a defeat to Pakistan. The Indian aspect regrouped to safe a confidence-boosting win and can proceed their marketing campaign with two extra matches.
In archery, Kumkum Mohod and Dhiraj Bommadevara superior to the combined recurve group closing after defeating Japan 5-3 of their semifinal. India recovered from a 1-3 deficit, successful the ultimate two units to ebook a gold-medal conflict towards China.
Earlier, Kumkum, Ankita Bhakat and Kirti Sharma gave India its first gold of the day by defeating South Korea 5-3 within the ladies’s recurve group closing.
The victory additionally marked India’s first-ever medal within the ladies’s recurve group occasion on the Asian Games and was the nation’s eleventh gold medal on the Aichi-Nagoya Games.
India’s general medal tally stood at 67 — 11 gold, 23 silver and 33 bronze — with the nation seventh on the medal desk on the time of writing.
There had been setbacks for India in wrestling, nevertheless, with Rajat Ruhal dropping to Kazakhstan’s Yedige Kassimbek on factors within the males’s freestyle 125kg spherical of 16, whereas Priya was pinned by reigning Asian Games champion Kyzy Medet of Kyrgyzstan within the ladies’s 76kg spherical of 16.
Both Rajat and Priya can nonetheless have a path to the medal rounds via repechage if their respective opponents progress to the ultimate.
In ladies’s 50kg, Dipanshi additionally suffered a round-of-16 defeat towards Japan’s Yui Susaki.
In combined particular person digital taekwondo, Kashish Malik defeated Hong Kong’s Lam Siu Wai within the spherical of 16 earlier than dropping 1-2 to Kazakhstan’s Rita Bakisheva within the quarterfinal. Kashish’s marketing campaign ended after she fell quick on the head-kick depend.
India additionally had combined fortunes in monitor biking. David Beckham progressed to the boys’s keirin semifinal, whereas Ronaldo Singh was eradicated within the repechage.
In canoe slalom, Pradhyumna Singh Rathod certified for the boys’s kayak cross quarterfinal, whereas Hitesh Kewat was eradicated. Shikha Chauhan additionally progressed to the ladies’s kayak cross quarterfinal.
India suffered a defeat to Thailand within the ladies’s sepaktakraw quadrant group match.
With key medal occasions nonetheless to return on Day 13, India stay in competition for additional success, notably in archery and wrestling. (ANI)