Greco-Roman wrestler Ashu won a bronze medal in the men's 67kg at the Zagreb Open 2023 Ranking Series, beating Lithuania's Adomas Grigaliunas 5-0 in the bronze play-off.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Ashu suffered 0-9 loss at the hands of eventual finalist Reza Mahdi Abbasi of Iran in the qualification round to enter the repechage on late Saturday night.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The Indian grappler then registered a dominating 8-0 win over Hungary's Adam Phoilec before getting the better of Norway's Haavard Joergensen 9-0 to make the bronze medal bout.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Ashu's bronze medal win on Saturday was India's second medal in the ongoing ranking series. Earlier, Under-23 world champion freestyle wrestler Aman Sehrawat won a bronze in the men's 57kg.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
In another Greco-roman bout, Sagar, competing in the 63kg bracket, lost his quarterfinal bout on point 0-6 against Iran's Aref Hossein Khoun Mohammadi. The Indian got a revival after Mohammadi reached the final. But he couldn't capitalise the opportunity as the Indian lost 1-7 in the repechage round to Austria's Aker Schmid Al Obaidi.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Earlier in the day, Asian championships bronze medallist Sushma Shokeen lost to Canadian grappler Samantha Stewart via fall to crash out in the quarterfinals of the women's 53kg.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Sushma had defeated Tetiana Profatilova of France and China's Yuhong Zhong in the earlier rounds.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Reetika, competing in the women's 72kg which was held in the round-robin format, could not make it to the semifinals. Kiran (women's 76kg) too failed to advance further.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Sushma had defeated Tetiana Profatilova of France and China's Yuhong Zhong in the earlier rounds.<\/p>\r\n\r\n