Tata Motors Wrestling Freestyle Championship Full results: India’s most crowded weight category, the 74kg men’s freestyle, got a new champion at the Tata Motors Wrestling Freestyle Championship held at Noida Stadium. Sandeep Singh of Punjab defeated Jitender Kumar to claim stake in the middleweight class. His victory means he is very much in contention in a crowded field that included former national champion and rising star Gourav Baliyan, who lost in the first round to 2015 World bronze medallist Narsingh Yadav. The latter was then defeated by former Asian medallist Amit Dhankar, who in turn was thumped by Sandeep in the semifinals. In the final, Sandeep defeated the 2020 Asian Championship silver medallist Jitender.
Meanwhile, Railways won the best team award by bagging 12 medals in the two-day event. On the first day, it won five medals, while on the second and final day, it took seven medals home.
Tata Motors Wrestling Championship Day 1 results:
57 kg.
Gold. Pankaj. SSCB
Silver. Aman HAR
Bronze. Rahul. DEL
Bronze. Shubham. HAR
61 kg.
Gold. Ravinder SSCB
Silver. Suraj. MAH
Bronze. Naveen. RSPB
Bronze. Sonba Tanaji. SSCB
74 kg.
Gold. Sandeep Singh. PUB
Silver. Jitender. RSPB
Bronze. Amit Dhankar. HAR
Bronze. Vijay HAR
92 kg.
Gold. Praveen. RSPB
Silver. Prithviraj. MAH
Bronze. Lovpreet Singh. PUB
Bronze. Gopal Yadav. RSPB
125 kg.
Gold. Sumit. RSPB
Silver. Dinesh Dhankar. HAR
Bronze. Pratyaksh. HAR
Bronze. Anil Kumar. RAJ
Tata Motors Wrestling Championship Day 2 results:
*65kg.*
Gold. Rohit HAR
Silver. Sharvan SSCB
Bronze. Amit. SSCB
Bronze. Anuj. HAR
*70 kg.*
Gold. Vishal Kaliraman RSPB
Silver. Parveen RSPB
Bronze. Karan. SSCB
Bronze. Sushil. HAR
*79 kg.*
Gold. Rahul Rathee. RSPB
Silver. Pritam. RSPB
Bronze. Veerdev Gulia SSCB
Bronze. Pradeep SSCB
*86 kg.*
Gold. Praveen Chahar DEL
Silver. Vetal MAH
Bronze. Deepak. RSPB
Bronze. Sanjeet SSCB
*97 kg.*
Gold. Satyawart Kadian RSPB
Silver. Monu SSCB
Bronze. Sumit Gulia HAR
Bronze. Ashish. DEL
*Team Position*
1st Position. RSPB. 192 Points
2nd Position. SSCB. 162 Points
3rd Position. Haryana. 138 Points