The team, comprising skipper Ritesh Sarda (Defaulter), Shuvajyoti Chakraborty (Mcg1LLzZz), Anshul Adardkar (KiiLSwitCh), Hrishikesh Shenoy (Crazy_Gamer) and Harsh Jain (lynX), recorded identical 2-0 victories over Pakistan and Bangladesh in the semi-finals and final respectively.
Bajrang Punia had picked up the injury during his pre-quarter-final bout at the world championships. However, he produced a spirited fightback to go on to win his fourth world championships medal, a bronze, with a bandage on his head.
Haile Gebrselassie won the 10,000 m gold in successive Olympics (1996 & 2000) and eight World Championships Indoor and Outdoor track titles from the 1,500 m to the 10,000 m in a storied career.
Ace Indian wrestler and Olympic medalist Bajrang Punia captured a bronze medal in the men's 65 kg category at the ongoing World Wrestling Championships 2022, by defeating Puerto Rico's Sebastian C Rivera in the bronze medal bout.
Ace Indian wrestler and Olympic medalist Bajrang Punia captured a bronze medal in the men's 65 kg category at the ongoing World Wrestling Championships 2022, by defeating Puerto Rico's Sebastian C Rivera in the bronze medal bout
He defeated Rivera in the bout by 11-9. The wrestler, who recently won a gold medal in Commonwealth Games scripted a remarkable comeback to win the match.
Born in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, Sudha Singh burst onto the national athletics scene after winning the 3000m steeplechase event at the 2007 National Games. She broke India's national record at the national championships in Jamshedpur with the timing of 10:18.76 in the same year.
Bajrang Punia, India's most successful wrestler at the world championships with one silver and two bronze, began the day with a hard-fought 5-4 win over Cuba's two-time worlds bronze medallist Alejandro Valdes.
Ravi Kumar Dahiya, a bronze medallist at the 2019 world championships, began the day by getting the better of Romania's Razvan Marian Kovacs 10-0 via technical superiority in the 57kg qualification round. However, the Indian wrestler lost to 2020 Asian champion Gulomjon Abdullaev of Uzbek