Indian grapplers sign off in style

DOMINANT DISPLAY: The Indian wrestling team was too good for its opposition winning most of the categories with ease.

India completed its dominance, winning five of the six titles, on the concluding day of the wrestling events here on Monday.

Pakistan picked up the men’s heavyweight gold to prevent a clean sweep by the host, which finished with 14 out of the total 16 gold medals.

Shilpi Sheoran, Rajani and Nikki won the 63, 69 and 75kg golds respectively to make it a clean sweep in the women’s category. India claimed all the seven medals in a field that had Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

The Indian women faced little challenge from the wrestlers of the neighbouring nations. In the men’s category, Zaman Anwar claimed the 125kg gold, outclassing India’s Mandeep 11-5 on technical points, to win the round-robin league that had five countries participating.

The results: Men: 125kg: 1. Zaman Anwar (Pak) 10 classification points, 2. Mandeep (Ind) 9, R. Rasool (Afg) 8; 97kg: Mausam Khatri (Ind) 10, 2. Rajab Naseri (Afg) 9, 3. Bilal Hosen (Ban) & Mohammad Ummair (Pak) 8; 74kg: 1. Pradeep (Ind) 10, 2. Mohammad Azad Butt (Pak) 9, 3. B.P. Rathnayaka (Sri) & Abdul Ghafar (Afg) 8.

Women: 75kg: 1. Nikki (Ind) 10, 2. Ravihari Weerasingha (Sri) 9, 3. Min Khatun (Ban) 8;

69kg: 1. Rajani (Ind) 10, 2. ShirinSultana (Ban) 9, 3. Senevera Thana (Sri) 8;

63kg: 1. Shilpi Sheoran (Ind) 10, 2. Farzana Sharmin (Ban) 9, Ram Rupa Singha (Sri) 8.