Ramesh Kumar creates history, bags bronze in World Wrestling

New Delhi, Sep 24 (PTI) India's Ramesh Kumar created
history by winning the bronze medal in the freestyle 74kg
category at the World Wrestling Championship in Herning,
Denmark.

The wrestler hailing from northern state of Uttar Pradesh
did what Beijing Olympic bronze medallist Sushil Kumar failed
to achieve, clinching India's first medal in the prestigious
event after a gap of 32 years.

Kumar defeated Alexandr Burca of Moldova on technical
points after the repechage round ended with both the wrestlers
tied at the score of 7-7 last night.

Kumar, however, started the bout on a disappointing note,
trailing 0-3 after the first period.

He then came back strongly in the second session to score
two points and then finished off the final period picking up
five points as against his opponent's four to finally come out
victorious on technical points.

Kumar had earlier defeated Dustin Schlatter of the US 3-2
in the opening round. His next casualty was Great Britain's
Michael Grundy, whom he beat 4-2 and then prevailed over Kiril
Terziev of Bulgaria 7-4 in the quarterfinal. MORE PTI