Las Vegas, Oct 19: Wrestlers Rohit, Jaskaran Singh and Chandermohan won bronze medals in their respective weight divisions at the U23 World Championship, helping India finish the tournament with six medals.
Competing in 57kg repechage round, Rohit outplayed Moldova’s Ion Bulgaru, beating him by technical superiority (12-2) and then prevailed 8-3 in the bronze medal bout against Armenia’s Arman Harutyunyan.
Jaskaran (65kg), who had lost his semifinal, beat Belarus’ Magomedkhan Magamedkhanov 8-5 to add to India’s tally.
Chandermohan (79kg) also secured a podium finish by beating Turkiye’s Ibrahim Metehan Yaprak 5-2 in his bronze play-off.
Shivam (97kg) lost his repechage bout 3-6 to Greek wrestler Nikolaos Karavanos, missing out on a medal.
Vishvajit More (Greco Roman 55kg), and Amruta Pujra (women’s 72kg) had earlier won silver medals while Komal grabbed a bronze in women’s 59kg. (PTI)