U-17 World Wrestling Championship: India's Ronak Dahiya wins bronze in 110kg

Amman (Jordan), August 21

India's Ronak Dahiya bagged the bronze medal in the 110kg Greco-Roman category at the U-17 World Wrestling Championship here on Tuesday.

In the bronze medal playoff, Ronak, currently ranked two in the world in his age-group and weight category, comfortably disposed the challenge of Turkey's Emrullah Capkan 6-1 to claim India's first medal in the championship.

Earlier, Ronak had lost to eventual silver medallist Zoltan Czako of Hungary in the semi-finals. In this category, Ukraine's Ivan Yankovskyi won gold by beating Czako 13-4 by virtue of technical superiority.

India has a chance of a second medal in the 51kg repechage if Sainath Pardhi wins two bouts. He is first pitted against Dominic Michael Munaretto of the United States. If he wins the bout, he will fight the bronze medal playoff with either Kazakhstan's Mussan Yerassyl or Iran's Abolfazl Mehrdad Karamiegaei.