India's Sushil Kumar has won a Bronze Medal in Men's 66kg FreeStyle Wrestling by beating Leonid Spiridonov of Kazakhstan 3-1. Earlier Sushil lost in Main Round. Main Round is for Gold and Silver Medals. And Repechage round is for Bronze Medal.
During his run in the event, Sushil was first defeated by Ukraine's Andriy Stadnik(who has won the Silver Medal in the event) 1-3 in the Main Round. After this defeat in the Repechage Round-1 Sushil defeated USA's Doug Schwab 3-1. After that in Repechage Round-2 he defeated Belarus' Albert Batyrov 3-1. And finally Leonid of Kazakhstan to win the Bronze.
With this win India has got two medals, 1-Gold and 1-Bronze in its kitty. Now India is ranked 41(in order of Golds won) and 46th(in order of total medals won) in medals tally. Today fate of Vijender Kumar and Jitender Kumar will also be decided. If they win today, it will guarantee a medal as bothe loosing semifainalist get a Bronze in Boxing. And if they win today they will be having there Semifinal Match on 22.
Sushil's Run to the Bronze Medal
Men's FR 66 kg 1/8 Final
India KUMAR Sushil - Ukraine STADNIK Andriy 1-3
Men's FR 66 kg Repechage Round 1
United States SCHWAB Doug - India KUMAR Sushil 1-3
Men's FR 66 kg Repechage Round 2
India KUMAR Sushil - Belarus BATYROV Albert 3-1
Men's FR 66 kg Bronze
India KUMAR Sushil - Kazakhstan SPIRIDONOV Leonid 3-1
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