Mumbai, March 26: Vikram Solanki of CISF and Yashpal Solanki of Punjab scored contrasting wins to emerge the men’s champions in the 100kg and 90kg weight categories respectively of the Senior National Judo Championship for men and women at the Andheri Sports Complex today.
While Vikram threw Punjab’s Pawan Kumar to score two Yukos and win on points, Yashpal had a fight on his hands against Services’ judoka Yaima Singh. The two fighters were deadlocked with a minute to go, before Solanki threw down his rival with an inner thigh throw to score a full point (Ippon) and win the bout.
Also winning by a full point was Punjab’s Rajwinder Kaur in the final of the women’s 78kg category. She threw her opponent, Haryana’s R Rekha, with a sweeping hip throw (Harai Goshi) to win the gold medal Delhi’s Jia Devi bagged the women?s 70kg gold.
-Agencies