Greco-Roman wrestler Ashu bags bronze at Zagreb Open Ranking Series

Zagreb, Feb 5 : Greco-Roman wrestler Ashu won a bronze medal in the mens 67kg at the Zagreb Open 2023 Ranking Series, beating Lithuanias Adomas Grigaliunas 5-0 in the bronze play-off.

Ashu suffered 0-9 loss at the hands of eventual finalist Reza Mahdi Abbasi of Iran in the qualification round to enter the repechage on late Saturday night.

The Indian grappler then registered a dominating 8-0 win over Hungarys Adam Phoilec before getting the better of Norways Haavard Joergensen 9-0 to make the bronze medal bout.Ashus bronze medal win on Saturday was Indias second medal in the ongoing ranking series.

Earlier, Under-23 world champion freestyle wrestler Aman Sehrawat won a bronze in the mens 57kg.In another Greco-roman bout, Sagar, competing in the 63kg bracket, lost his quarterfinal bout on point 0-6 against Irans Aref Hossein Khoun Mohammadi.

The Indian got a revival after Mohammadi reached the final.But he couldnt capitalise the opportunity as the Indian lost 1-7 in the repechage round to Austrias Aker Schmid Al Obaidi.

Earlier in the day, Asian championships bronze medallist Sushma Shokeen lost to Canadian grappler Samantha Stewart via fall to crash out in the quarterfinals of the womens 53kg.Sushma had defeated Tetiana Profatilova of France and Chinas Yuhong Zhong in the earlier rounds.

Reetika, competing in the womens 72kg which was held in the round-robin format, could not make it to the semifinals.Kiran (womens 76kg) too failed to advance further #GrecoRoman #wrestler #Ashu #bags #bronze #Zagreb #Telugu #TeluguStop # Samantha #Sagar #Photo.