WRESTLING
Sushil Kumar: Made history, becoming only the second Indian wrestler after Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav who won a bronze in the 1952 Helsinki Games, to win an Olympic medal.
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Sushil's bronze medal in the men's 66kg freestyle was India’s second of the competition.
His campaign seemed over when he lost 1-8 in the first round to eventual silver medallist Andriy Stadnik of Ukraine. But the repechage provided him a ray of hope, and the Indian survived the onslaught of three grapplers on the trot to win the bronze.
Sushil beat Doug Schwab (3-1) of the United States, Albert Batyrov (3-1) of Belarus and, finally, the losing semi-finalist, Leonid Spiridonov of Kazakhstan in the repechage rounds to earn his slice of history.
Yogeshwar Dutt: had the best of the pools and a bye to start with. The 26-year-old Indian grappler won his pre-quarter-final round against Baurzhan Orazgaliyev of Kazakhstan 8-3.
But the Asian champion crashed out after losing to Japan's Kenichi Yumoto 3-6 in the quarter-finals of the 60 kg freestyle category.
Rajiv Tomar: Lost his 120kg freestyle qualification round bout to Steve Mocco of the United States and failed to qualify.
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