India shining: Sushil Kumar win bronze medal in the 66kg men
20th of August 2008,Always remember in indian games history
Congratulate Sushil Kumar and Vijender !
TOUGH GUY: Sushil Kumar celebrates his bronze medal in the 66kg men’s freestyle wrestling.
Wrestler Sushil Kumar who lost his 1st bout in the morning in the 66 kg freestyle category; the man who beat him went on to the final that put Sushil into a play-off for bronze.
This was until now is the greatest day for India at the Olympics.
he had to beat three wrestlers to get to the podium. Doug Schwab of USA went down to Sushil in round 1, Albert Batyrov from Belarus in round 2 and only Kazakhstan’s Leonid Spiridinov stood between Sushil and a ten-year dream. In a fantastic bout of wrestling, Sushil emerged victorious on points.
The gold medal was won by world champion Ramazan Sahin of Turkey while Stadnik had to be contend with the silver.
This is India’s second medal at Beijing and the first in wrestling since 1952.
He is only the second Indian wrestler after Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav to win an Olympic medal. Jadhav had won a bronze medal in the 1952 Games.
This is also the first time since 1952 that India has two Olympic medals.
Earlier, Abhinav Bindra won first-ever Olympics gold medal for the country in the 10 meter air rifle event.
And another sensation news comes from Beijing, Boxer Vijender enters semi-finals, assured of medal.So one more medal comes in Indian bag.
If indian govt. give more facilities on other games besides cricket,I must be say that the graph of medals tally will increase.
I would also like to say that the state and central govt ,who announced a reward for wining person is appreciated but if govt. invest more money on games. You will see the good results.
Shine Indian ………..
