Asian Games 2023: Deepak Punia lost in the final, India won six medals in wrestling
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Indian wrestlers ended their Asian Games wrestling campaign with six medals as Deepak Punia lost to his idol Hasan Yazdani of Iran in the final of the 86kg weight category on Saturday. This was the second time that Deepak was facing his childhood idol, two-time Olympic medalist and eight-time World Championship medalist Yazdani.
Deepak had made it to the finals on his debut in the Asian Games but he could not do anything special against the Iranian wrestler and had to be satisfied with the silver medal. 24-year-old Deepak, also known as ‘Kettle Wrestler’, could not score a single point against the Iranian wrestler. Yazdani had scored eight points in the first period itself and he won over the Indian player on the basis of technical proficiency at the beginning of the second period itself.
Meanwhile, Yash Tunir (74 kg), Vicky (97 kg) and Sumit Malik (125 kg) bowed out of the Games without reaching the medal round. In this way, India won a total of six medals in wrestling but this does not include even a single gold medal. India’s biggest disappointment came from Bajrang Punia, who could not win a medal. Apart from Deepak, Sunil Kumar (87 kg), Anand Panghal (53 kg), Sonam Malik (62 kg), Aman Sehrawat (57 kg) and Kiran Bishnoi (76 kg) won medals from India’s side.
India had won three medals in 2018, including gold medals for Bajrang and Vinesh Phogat. In the men’s 86 kg weight category, Deepak defeated Bahrain’s Magomed Sharipov by 3 votes in the qualification round. Defeated by 2. After this, he defeated Renda Riandesta of Indonesia by technical superiority and defeated Shirai Shota of Japan by 7 points in the quarter finals. Beat by 3. In the semi-finals he defeated Javrel Shapiyev of Uzbekistan by 4. Defeated by 3. Yash was defeated by Magomet Ivloev of Tajikistan on technical superiority. He had defeated Cheang Choyun of Cambodia in the pre-quarterfinals. Vicky was defeated by Alisher Yergali of Kazakhstan while Sumit Malik was defeated by Elal Lazarev of Kyrgyzstan.
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