India’s Gurpreet Singh and Sunil Kumar ended up with a silver each in their respective Greco-Roman categories at the Asian Wrestling Championships here on Saturday.
Gurpreet had to be satisfied with a silver after being handed a 0-8 defeat by Hyeonwoo Kim of Korea in the final of 77kg category.
On his way to the final, Gurpreet thrashed Bakhit Sharif K. Badr of Qatar 10-0 in the quarterfinals before eking out a narrow 6-5 victory over Tamerlan Shadukayev of Kazakhstan in the last four round.
In 87kg, Sunil Kumar stormed into the final prevailing over Azamat Kustubayev of Kazakhstan 6-6 in a victory by fall verdict in his semifinal bout, while he had earlier beaten Tokhirdzhon Okhonov of Tajikistan 14-7 in the last eight stage.
In the final Sunil lost to Iran’s Hossein Ahmad Nouri, the reigning Asian Games gold medallist.
