India’s Sunil Kumar became the first Indian to win the Greco Roman gold in 27 years, on Tuesday. Sunil defeated Azat Salidinov of Kyrgyzstan 5-0 to clinch the 87 kg title.
The last Indian Greco-Roman wrestler to win gold at the Asian Championships was Pappyu Yadav who won the 48 kg title in 1993.
Last year, Sunil settled for Silver at the same tournament.
“I am feeling happy to have earned India’s first Gold Medal today. I have worked really hard on my ground techniques and it feels good to have done better than my last year’s performance,” said Sunil.
India also had another medal in the same tournament with Arjun Halakurki (55 kg) winning the bronze after beating Donghyeok Won of Korea.
