Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Wrestler Sushil Kumar wins Olympic bronze medal for India

Wrestler Sushil Kumar wins Olympic bronze medal for India taking India's tally of medals in the Beijing 2008 Olympics ( बीजिंग २००८ ) to 2.

Sushil Kumar contested in the 66kg Freestyle Wrestling at Beijing Olympics and beat Spiridonov of Kazhakastan in the bronze medal bout. The Indian boxer gained access to the bronze medal round thru the repecharge round even though he lost in the first round. The Last time an Indian Wrestler won a medal was when K D Yadav won the bronze medal in Wrestling in 1952 Olympic Games Helsinki

The earlier medal was won by Abhinav Bindra- gold in shooting. As India is celebrating, it is awaiting the Kumar boxers' bout for a place in the semi-finals in Boxing.

Keep watch and cheering India !

Our previous posts on the Olympics are here, here and here .

3 comments:

Oink said...

Cool ! Ur faster than most news websites ! Iv been trying to get some news on sushil kumar's bronze .. it seems no news website has so far uploaded anything about it !

Sphurthy said...

Great news, this is India's best ever Olympics.

Good job Sushil Kumar for winning the Freestyle Wrestling Bronze medal

Unknown said...

what a fucked uup country we have. imporvished, lower lower class poverty ridden people win us a medal after pouring their blood into it and we are happy as hell. we have no system. no univerties to produce champions, no decent medical system totake care of our people, nojustice no education and we feel proud when one man's determinaton in one billion makes it thru. shame on us all.