<p>Indian wrestler Sunil Kumar won the bronze medal in the 87kg Greco Roman bout of the Asian Championship here on Tuesday.</p>
<p>In the bronze medal match, Sunil beat China&rsquo;s Jiaxin Huang 5-1 having lost the semi-finals of the 87kg bout in the continental tournament to Iran&rsquo;s Yasin Yazdi, who beat Kumar 3-1.</p>
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<p>Sunil, a silver medallist in 2019 who is looking to regain some of his old magic, had earlier registered a 10-1 victory over Tajikistan&rsquo;s Sukhrob Abdulkhaev in the quarter-final. Meanwhile, Kumar&rsquo;s compatriots could not muster the same kind of results.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Sagar Thakran lost in the 77kg quarter-final bout to Jordan&rsquo;s Amro Sadeh, while Nitin (55kg) and Prem (130kg) were ousted in the qualification round.</p>
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In the bronze medal match, Sunil beat China’s Jiaxin Huang 5-1 having lost the semi-finals of the 87kg bout in the continental tournament to Iran’s Yasin Yazdi

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In the bronze medal match, Sunil beat China’s Jiaxin Huang 5-1 having lost the semi-finals of the 87kg bout in the continental tournament to Iran’s Yasin Yazdi, who beat Kumar 3-1

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