Hangzhou [China], October 5 (ANI): U-20 World Champion Antim Panghal superior to the quarterfinals within the girls’s freestyle 53kg wrestling on the nineteenth Asian Games on Thursday.
Antim scored 5 technical factors within the first half and 6 within the second to win simply 11-0 towards the reigning Asian Championships silver medallist Jasmina Immaeva.
Antim will face the 2021 World Wrestling Championships gold medalist Akari Fujinami from Japan within the quarterfinals.
Earlier, Sunil Kumar bagged India’s first medal in Men’s Greco-Roman 87kg in nearly 13 years within the Asian Games after getting higher of Kyrgyzstan’s Atabek Azisbekov on Wednesday.
Atabek took the lead within the first spherical after Sunil was known as for passivity, the Indian was compelled to defend from the upside-down place and managed to maintain the deficit to only a single level.
Sunil levelled the sport after the Kyrgyzstan wrestler was known as for passivity and made the rating one-all.
Atabek managed to momentarily achieve two factors by pushing Sunil out of bounds to take a 3-1 lead. The Indian challenged the choice and bought it overturned to carry the scoreline again to 1-1.
Sunil was forward on the factors and bought the decisive level within the remaining moments of the match. Sunil clinched the bronze medal within the class. (ANI)