Narsingh Pancham Yadav

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2015

World Wrestling Championship

The Times of India, Sep 14 2015

Narsingh Pancham Yadav secured an Olympic quota place for India after bagging a bronze medal in the Men's 74kg Freestyle category , giving the country a reason to cheer at the World Wrestling Championship here. With his thirdplace finish, Narsingh became the lone Indian to win a medal at the prestigious tournament as well as book a berth for the 2016 Rio Games. Top six in each category qualifies for the Olympics. This is the first time that an Indian wrestler has earned an Olympic berth with a medal at the World Championship. Double Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar's absence from the mat for over an year now has made Narsingh a regular in the 74kg division. It will now be interesting to see who between the veteran Sushil or 26-year-old Narsingh ultimately board the flight to Rio next year to represent India in this category.

As per rules, an Olympic berth is for the country concerned and not the wrestler who might have clinched it. Narsingh came up with some dominating performances, defeating Hanoc Rachamin of Israel 14-2 before getting the better of Soner Demirtas of Turkey 4-3 and Cuba's Livan Lopez Azcuy 16-5 to advance to the semifinal. But in his semifinal bout, Narsingh went down to Unurbat Purevjav of Mongolia.

However, in his bronze medal play-off, he got his act together to outplay Zelimkhan Khadjiev of France 12-8 to make it to the podium. Arun, meanwhile, did well to beat Tat Du Can of Vietnam 7-0 and Semen Radulov of Ukraine 5-4 to advance to the quarterfinal round. But he lost to local wrestler James Malcolm Green 0-10 in the last-eight stage.