{"id":171428,"date":"2025-03-27T14:48:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T09:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=171428"},"modified":"2025-03-27T14:48:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T09:18:59","slug":"sunil-kumar-wins-bronze-at-asian-wrestling-championships-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/sunil-kumar-wins-bronze-at-asian-wrestling-championships-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunil Kumar Wins Bronze at Asian Wrestling Championships 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Indian wrestler Sunil Kumar has secured a bronze medal in the 87kg Greco-Roman category at the 2025 Asian Wrestling Championships held in Amman, Jordan. After facing a tough loss in the semifinals against Iran\u2019s Yasin Yazdi, Sunil made a strong comeback in the bronze medal match, defeating China\u2019s Jiaxin Huang. A silver medallist from 2019, Sunil is on a mission to get back to his peak performance. He kicked off his tournament with a commanding 10-1 victory over Tajikistan\u2019s Sukhrob Abdulkhaev in the quarterfinals, scoring all his points in the second period. Unfortunately, he fell short against Yazdi, losing 3-1 in the semifinal and missing out on a chance to compete in the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Highlights<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sunil Kumar\u2019s Performance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Event<\/strong>: Asian Wrestling Championships 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Category<\/strong>: 87kg Greco-Roman<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Medal<\/strong>: Bronze<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Bronze Medal Match<\/strong>: Defeated China\u2019s Jiaxin Huang<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Quarterfinals<\/strong>: Won 10-1 against Tajikistan\u2019s Sukhrob Abdulkhaev<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Semifinal:<\/strong>\u00a0Lost 1-3 to Iran\u2019s Yasin Yazdi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Other Indian Wrestlers\u2019 Performance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Sagar Thakran (77kg):<\/strong>\u00a0Won his qualification bout but lost 0-10 in the quarterfinals to Jordan\u2019s Amro Sadeh. His progression depended on Sadeh\u2019s semifinal performance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Umesh (63kg):<\/strong>\u00a0Eliminated in the qualification round.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Nitin (55kg) &amp; Prem (130kg):<\/strong>\u00a0Knocked out in the early rounds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian wrestler Sunil Kumar has secured a bronze medal in the 87kg Greco-Roman category at the 2025 Asian Wrestling Championships held in Amman, Jordan. After facing a tough loss in the semifinals against Iran\u2019s Yasin Yazdi, Sunil made a strong comeback in the bronze medal match, defeating China\u2019s Jiaxin Huang. A silver medallist from 2019, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":171429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5364],"tags":[59],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-171428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-march-2025","tag-sports-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171430,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171428\/revisions\/171430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171428"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=171428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}