Haryana continue to dominate wrestling competition

Ranchi, February 24: Haryana grapplers continued to dominate on the second day of the wrestling competition as they added four more gold medals here today, to take their tally to eight yellow metals in the 34th National Games.

Haryana’s Commonwealth gold medallist Mausham Khetri hardly stretched himself to beat Jharkhand’s Narendra for the gold in the 96 kg freestyle men’s wrestling competition.

While Punjab’s Gurupal Singh and Satyavrat of Uttarakhand settled for bronze as the losing semifinalists in this heavy weight category.

Haryana grappler Suman Kundu overpowered Punjab’s Naujit Rakhi to bag the gold in the women’s 57 kg competition while Delhi’s Jyoti and MP’s Naujit Rani got the bronze medals.

Anita of Haryana won her bout over Manipur’s N Tombi Devi in the women’s 63 kg while UP’s Rajni and Manu Sekhavat of MP got the bronze medals.

-Agencies