WRESTLER SUSHIL KUMAR WINS BRONZE FOR INDIA IN OLYMPICS

Wrestler Sushil Kumar gave India one more reason to won cheer when he won the bronze medal in the freestyle 66kg category at the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday.

 Sushil defeated Leonid Spiridonov of Kazakhstan 3-1 in the repechage match of the men’s freestyle wrestling 66kg to win India’s India’s first wrestling medal since the 1952 Helsinki Games.

Sushil Kumar (R) wrestles USA

He is only the second Indian wrestler after Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav to win an Olympic medal. Jadhav had won a bronze medal in the 1952 Games.

In the earlier rounds of repechage Sushil overcame the challenge of USA’s Doug Schwab and Belarrussian Albert Batyrov in the first two repechage rounds.

Sushil had lost to Ukrainian Andriy Stadnik in his quarter-final bout.

The gold medal was won by world champion Ramazan Sahin of Turkey while Stadnik had to be contend with the silver.

Sahin, who is also the European champion, won the bout 2-2, 2-1, 2-2.

The other bronze went to Otar Tushishvili of Georgia, a semi-final loser to Sahin.

This is also the first time since 1952 that India has two Olympic medals.

Earlier, Abhinav Bindra won first-ever Olympics gold medal for the country in the 10meter air rifle event.

Courtesy :- IBN Live

Abhinav Bindra does India Proud, Wins 10m air rifle gold in Olympics

Abhinav Bindra wins India's first individual gold

Abhinav Bindra won the gold medal in men’s 10 metre air rifle event of the shooting competition at Beijing Olympics on Monday morning.

The medal is India’s first individual gold, and the first since 1980, when the hockey team emerged triumphant in Moscow.

Bindra shot a total score of 700.5.

China’s Zhu Qinan, gold medalist at Athens 2004, won the silver medal with a total score of 699.7.

The bronze medal was won by Finland’s Henri Hakkinen, who was leading the field after the qualification round, but was unable to hold off Bindra and Zhu in the final.

Bindra held his nerve to score 10.8 on the 10th and final shot, while Zhu shot 10.5 and Hakkinen fell back with a poor score of 9.7.

Earlier, Bindra ended the poor run of Indian shooters at the Olympics by qualifying for the men’s 10 metres air rifle event final.

However, Gagan Narang failed to make the final cut in the same event as he finished ninth with a score of 595/600. Narang shot a series of 97, 100, 100, 100, 98, 100.

Bindra, a Khel Ratna winner, finished the qualifying event joint-fourth with Romania’s George Alin Moldoveanu in the qualification round. The duo had a score of 596/600.

The bespectacled India shooter’s scoring sequence was 100, 99, 100, 98, 100 and 99.

Meanwhile, Finland’s Henri Hakkinen qualified first for the event with a score of 598/600 after shooting a series of 100, 100, 99, 100, 100 and 99.

China’s Qinan Zhu was a point adrift of Hakkinen with a series of 100, 100, 100, 100, 99 and 98.

Courtesy :- Rediff