Sushil 'walks over' to a gold; Sakshi, Geeta excel at National Wrestling

INDORE: Back in action after three-long years, two-time Olympic-medalist Sushil Kumar took not up to 3 minutes to bag a gold medal as 3 of his rivals gave him a walk over in men's 74kg freestyle competition of the National Wrestling championship on Friday.

Sushil battled for simply 2 minutes and 33 seconds in overall on the mat as he fought simplest two of his preliminary spherical bouts before 3 of his warring parties - in the quarterfinal, semifinal and ultimate - gave him a walk over.

Meanwhile, India's lone girl Olympic medal winner Sakshi Malik and popular 'Dangal woman' Geeta Phogat also bagged a gold medal each and every in their respective weight classes of ladies's wrestling on the second day of the marquee home tournament.

Geeta beat Ravita in the ultimate of the 59 kg class.

Sakshi finished on the top of the podium after posting a dominating 10-0 victory over Pooja of Haryana in women's 62kg, whilst Geeta also clinched the yellow steel

Even Geeta's husband Pawan Kumar also controlled to finish on top in 86kg.

All eyes were on Sushil and India's greatest person Olympian infrequently had to wreck sweat as India global Parveen Rana decided to concede his bout against the 34-year-old.

Rana reportedly used to be sporting a niggle which could have been irritated had he fought the bout.

Earlier, it used to be Sachin Dahiya gave him a walkover in the semifinals, enabling his easy passage to the gold-medal spherical.

In the quarterfinals, Praveen had also given his more fancied opponent a walkover.

Earlier, Sushil showed that magnificence is permanent as he took not up to two minutes to get past his warring parties in the preliminary rounds, before 3 of his rivals gave him a walkover.

Sushil overpowered Mizoram's Lalmalsawma via technical fall in 48 seconds in the first spherical and then pinned down Mukul Mishra in just a minute and 45 seconds in his subsequent bout.

Geeta had registered a come-from-behind win to make it to the finals of 59kg with a Eight-4 result over Sarita Mor Eight-4 in her semifinal bout.

Sakshi, in her opening bout, pinned down her rival in simply 39 seconds and eventually sailed into the final of 62kg.

Results:

48kg: Ritu (Gold), Nirmal Devi (Silver), Preeti (Bronze) & Sheetal Tomar (Bronze).

53kg: Seema (Gold), Pinki (Silver), Priyanka (Bronze) & Diksha Tomar (Bronze).

55kg: Vinesh (Gold) Manisha (Silver), Swaranjeet Kaur (Bronze) & Reena (Bronze).

57kg: Pooja Dhanda (Gold), Sangeeta (Silver), Rani Rana (Bronze) & Indu Tomar (Bronze).

59kg: Geeta Phogat (Gold), Ravita (Silver), Sakshi (Bronze), & Sarita (Bronze).

62kg: Sakshi Malik (Gold), Pooja Tomar (Silver), Pooja (Bronze) & Manju (Bronze).

65kg: Ritu Malik (Gold), Gargi Yadav (Silver), Shilpi Sheron (Bronze) & Ishika Tomar (Bronze).

68kg: Divya Kakran (Gold), Monia (Silver), Kusum (Bronze) & Pinki (Bronze).

72kg: Kiran (Gold), Manu Tomar (Silver), Naina (Bronze) & Kamini (Bronze).

76kg: Pooja (Gold), Kavita (Silver), Jyoti (Bronze) & Rani (Bronze).

Men's Freestyle:

57 kg: Utkrash Kale (Gold); Ravi Kumar (Silver); Amit, Mayank (Bronze)

65 kg: Sonu (Gold), Praveen (Silver), Surjeet, Karan (Bronze).

74 kg: Sushil Kumar (Gold), Praveen Rana (Silver), Praveen, Balraj (Bronze)

86 kg: Pawan Kumar (Gold), Deepak (Silver), Surajvir, Deepak Punia (Bronze).