Bronze For SUSHIL KUMAR

Men’s 66 kg Freestyle: Sushil Kumar

1.Freestyle grappler Sushil Kumar earned the Beijing Olympics berth after finishing seventh in the 66-kg weight category at the World wrestling championship in Baku.2.Sushil won the first Olympic quota for India after making it to the quarter-finals. He won his first three rounds with convincing margins before losing to Ukraine’s Andriy Stadnik 4-15.

3.Sushil finished 14th in Athens and would certainly like to better his record at Beijing.

4.Sushil became the second Indian wrestler after K D Jadhav who won a bronze in the 1952 Helsinki Games to win an Olympic medal.

5.Incidentally, in the 2006 Doha Asian Games also, Sushil had beaten Leonid to win the bronze.

Mr.Critickiran has an intresting page on Sushil Kumar's journey to the medal

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As usual when all of us are busy updating about the India-Srilanka cricket macth , great news came from an unexpected corner. Indian Wrestler Sushil Kumar won bronze medal today in 66 kg free style wrestling at Beijing Olympics. This is the second medal for India in ongoing Olympics. You can read the whole story Click Here