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Paris Olympics bronze medallist Aman Sehrawat defied an eyebrow wounded to assertion the men’s freestyle 61kg golden medal successful the National wrestling championships astatine the Veer Savarkar Sports Complex, Naranpura, present connected Saturday.
Aman, who became eligible for the lawsuit aft his suspension (for jumping the 57kg value bounds successful the World championships successful Zagreb) was revoked past month, exhibited his supremacy done a bid of objective performances.
Sporting his leader Railways’ colours, Aman, who fought successful a heavier class to debar hassles of cutting his assemblage weight, outclassed Kerala’s Adhit Narayan 12-1 and Madhya Pradesh’s Lalit 10-0. He rallied from 0-2 to bushed Rajasthan’s Anuj Kumar 13-2 successful the semifinals and trounced Delhi’s Nikhil 10-0 successful the final.
Aman picked up an wounded connected his near eyebrow owed to a clash of heads with Lalit successful the quarterfinals. Despite bleeding from a swollen wound, helium not lone fought 3 bouts, including the last successful which helium appeared with a bandaged head, but besides obliged galore fans by posing for photographs aft his victory.“An wounded is portion of the sport. It was a bully outing,” said Aman aft the final.
World under-23 champion Sujeet Kalkal, who bushed seasoned rival Vishal Kaliraman 10-0 successful the final, established himself arsenic the champion wrestler successful 65kg pursuing the Bajrang Punia era.
In a uncommon high-scoring 57kg semifinal bout that swung from broadside to side, Atish Todkar edged Akshay Dhere 17-16, but could not prolong his vigor to suffer the last 0-10 to Ankush.
The results: Freestyle: 57kg: Gold: Ankush (Del) bt Atish Todkar (Rlys) 10-0; Bronze: Akshay Dhere (Mah) bt Suman Kumar (Bih) ‘by fall,’ Chirag (Har) bt Vishal (UP) 3-2; 61kg: Gold: Aman Sehrawat (Rlys) bt Nikhil (Del) 10-0; Bronze: Deepak (SSCB) bt Janardan Yadav (UP) ‘by fall’, Anuj Kumar (Raj) bt Lalit (MP) 6-3; 65kg: Gold: Sujeet Kalkal (Har) bt Vishal Kaliraman (Rlys) 10-0; Bronze: Rohit (SSCB) bt Parikshit (Del) 10-2, Vijay Malik (Chd) bt Ayush Kumar (Del) 9-6; 70kg: Gold: Abhimanyu (Har) bt Ravi Kuntal (UP) 10-0; Bronze: Rohan Narayan (Rlys) bt Naveen (SSCB) 8-4, Rohit (MP) bt Rahul (Chd) 3-2; 74kg: Gold: Chandermohan (SSCB) bt Deepak (Har) 10-0; Bronze: Vikash Yadav (UP) bt Deepanshu (Chd) 9-8, Adarsh Patil (Mah) bt Vishal Kumar (Pun) ‘by fall’; 79kg: Gold: Amit (SSCB) bt Mohit (Del) 11-0; Bronze: Sachin Mor (Rlys) bt Rohit Prajapati (MP) 10-0, Rahul (Raj) bt Vikas (Mah) 5-5 (by criteria); 86kg: Gold: Mukul Dahiya (SSCB) bt Sachin (Har) 10-0; Bronze: Sandeep Singh (Pun) bt Avinash (Raj) 10-0, Aman Singh (Guj) bt Anand V.S. (Ker) ‘by fall’; 92kg: Gold: Jonty (Rlys) bt Sachin (Har) 8-7; Bronze: Sahil Jaglan (SSCB) bt Gurdeshwar Singh (Pun) 7-4, Deepak (Raj) bt Mohammed Hafiz (J&K) 5-1; 97kg: Gold: Vicky (Rlys) bt Deepak (Del) by injury; Bronze: Sahil (Pun) bt Avtar Singh (Utk) 10-0, Vetal Shelke (Mah) bt Sanjay Kumar (J&K) 13-0; 125kg: Gold: Dinesh (SSCB) bt Ronak (Del) 5-0; Bronze: Mahendra (Rlys) bt Mohit (Har) 5-0, Raju (Chd) bt Umang (Utk) 10-0.
Team championship: Railways; runner-up: Services.
