Three Indians – Greco Roman wrestlers Gyanender, Manish and Manjeet – will start their pursuit for the UWW World Championship glory in Budapest, Hungary, today (Friday).
Gyanender is scheduled to take on Lithuania’s Justas Petravicius in the 60 kg men’s Greco Roman competition. Among other Indians to take to the mat today, Manish in the 67 kg opening round will take on Latvian Aleksandrs Jurkjan while in the 87 kg category Majeet will start his campaign with the bout against Erik Aps of Estonia.
All the matches will be STREAMED LIVE on the official United World Wrestling (UWW) website.
Late yesterday, Puja Dhanda bagged women’s 57 kg bronze with a 10-7 verdict over Grace Bullen of Norway. She thus became only the fourth Indian women grapplers after Alka Tomar, Geeta Phogat and Babita Phogat to win a UWW World Championship medal.
Earlier, Bajrang Punia had created a history for India by securing his second World Championship medal – a silver to add to the bronze he had won in the previous edition of the UWW World Championship.
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