XI'AN (China): India wrapped up their marketing campaign on the Asian Wrestling Championships on a resounding be aware with 16 medals after Greco-Roman grapplers added a silver and a bronze on the concluding day on Sunday.
Harpreet Singh settled for a silver in 82kg whilst Gyanender won a bronze in 60kg on the final day of competitions.
India's total tally of 16 medals included 8 - one gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze - won by way of men's freestyle wrestlers, four bronze by way of girls and 3 silver and one bronze by way of Greco-Roman wrestlers.
Harpreet put up an excellent efficiency to hurricane into the gold medal spherical, having thrashed Haitao Qian of China 10-1 within the semifinals after handing a Five-1 defeat to Burgo Beishaliev of Kyrgyzstan in his last-eight stage bout.
Harpreet though did not clinch the highest spot as he went down within the name clash to Iran's Saeid Morad Abdvali Zero-Eight.
Earlier, Gyanender did well to defeat Jui Chi Huang of Taipei and bag the 0.33 place.
For Gyanender, a quarterfinal spherical win over Ali Abed Alnaser Ali Abuseif of Jordan Nine-1 used to be followed by way of a Zero-Nine defeat in opposition to Islomjon Bakhramov of Uzbekistan within the semifinal.
In distinction, Yogesh misplaced out on a podium end in 72kg class after being crushed by way of Ruslan Tsarev of Kyrgyzstan within the third-fourth place bout.
Yogesh had entered the bronze medal spherical despite losing his qualifying match to Hujun Zhang of China Zero-Nine as his Chinese opponent made the gold medal spherical.
However, two different Indians within the fray on Sunday - Ravinder and Hardeep - crashed out early. While Ravinder bowed out in 67kg after losing his qualification bout, Hardeep suffered defeat in 97kg quarterfinal bout.
Harpreet Singh settled for a silver in 82kg whilst Gyanender won a bronze in 60kg on the final day of competitions.
India's total tally of 16 medals included 8 - one gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze - won by way of men's freestyle wrestlers, four bronze by way of girls and 3 silver and one bronze by way of Greco-Roman wrestlers.
Harpreet put up an excellent efficiency to hurricane into the gold medal spherical, having thrashed Haitao Qian of China 10-1 within the semifinals after handing a Five-1 defeat to Burgo Beishaliev of Kyrgyzstan in his last-eight stage bout.
Harpreet though did not clinch the highest spot as he went down within the name clash to Iran's Saeid Morad Abdvali Zero-Eight.
Earlier, Gyanender did well to defeat Jui Chi Huang of Taipei and bag the 0.33 place.
For Gyanender, a quarterfinal spherical win over Ali Abed Alnaser Ali Abuseif of Jordan Nine-1 used to be followed by way of a Zero-Nine defeat in opposition to Islomjon Bakhramov of Uzbekistan within the semifinal.
In distinction, Yogesh misplaced out on a podium end in 72kg class after being crushed by way of Ruslan Tsarev of Kyrgyzstan within the third-fourth place bout.
Yogesh had entered the bronze medal spherical despite losing his qualifying match to Hujun Zhang of China Zero-Nine as his Chinese opponent made the gold medal spherical.
However, two different Indians within the fray on Sunday - Ravinder and Hardeep - crashed out early. While Ravinder bowed out in 67kg after losing his qualification bout, Hardeep suffered defeat in 97kg quarterfinal bout.
India finish with 16 medals at Asian Wrestling Championships
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