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Sandeep of Rohtak returned from a three-year hiatus to marque his people by winning the Greco Roman 60kg rubric astatine the Senior Open Ranking wrestling tourney connected the Nandini Nagar Mahavidyalaya field present connected Tuesday.
An Armyman who was injured and resumed grooming successful November 2025, Sandeep fought six bouts implicit 2 days due to the fact that of the delayed enactment but carried retired his plans good to look the champion.
In a keenly-fought final, helium edged past Delhi’s Harsh 3-1. Sandeep gained a 3-0 pb successful the archetypal play by scoring due to the fact that of his opponent’s passivity and past effected a takedown. He gave distant 1 constituent successful the 2nd play owed to his ain passivity but relied connected his beardown defence to enactment up till the end.
“Yesterday, I fought 2 bouts and contiguous four. It’s hard to negociate without food. My endurance helped,” said the erstwhile National champion Sandeep, reflecting the trouble the wrestlers look owed to the erratic docket successful blistery and humid conditions.
Manjeet Haryana proved excessively bully for Umesh. | Photo Credit: SANDEEP SAXENA
Manjeet secured a hard-fought 4-2 triumph implicit Umesh for the 82kg crown.
In the women’s section, Olympian Sonam Malik (65kg), who underwent a near genu country and made a comeback aft 4 years, was stunned 3-2 by Ankita successful the archetypal round.
Asian bronze medallist Hansika Lamba withdrew aft injuring herself during a 57kg bout.
The results (finals): Men: Greco Roman: 55kg: Sanjeev (Har) bt Sushil Kumar (Har) 9-0; 60kg: Sandeep (Har) bt Harsh (Del) 3-1; 63kg: Vijay (Har) bt Vinay (Mah) 9-0; 67kg: Nishant (Har) bt Vikas (Chd) 7-2; 72kg: Suraj (SSCB) bt Gaurav Duhoon (UP) by injury; 77kg: Vikas (Har) bt Sunny Baisla (UP) 8-0; 82kg: Manjeet (Har) bt Umesh (Har) 4-1; 87kg: Tejpal (Mah) bt Sagar (Har) by injury; 97kg: Ashish (Har) bt Abhimanu (Pun) by injury; 130kg: Mehar Singh (Har) bt Vipin (Har) by injury.
