Wrestler Bajrang Punia bags India’s sixth medal at Tokyo Olympics, wins bronze

Indian wrestler Bajrang Punia wins bronze medal at Tokyo Olympics by convincingly beating Daulet Niyazbekov of Kazakhstan in the men’s freestyle 65kg event today.

He beat the Kazakhstan wrestler with 8-0 points in an one-sides match for the bronze medal. Bajrang had earlier gone down to Azerbaijan’s Haji Aliyev in the semi-final on Friday.

Bajrang became sixth ever Indian wrestler to win an Olympic medal, and second grappler from India in the ongoing Olympic games to have a podium finish after Ravi Kumar Dahiya’s silver medal earlier .

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