Asian Games wrestling: Manoj goes down in bronze-medal match (Lead)
November 22nd, 2010 - 6:10 pm ICT by IANSGuangzhou, Nov 22 (IANS) Indian wrestler Manoj Kumar lost an opportunity to win a bronze as he went down to Janarbek Kenjeev of Kyrgyzstan 0-3 in the play-off round in the men’s greco-roman 84 kg category in Asian Games here Monday.
Manoj struggled against a superior opponent Janarbek and succumbed without putting up much of a fight at the Huagong Gymnasium.
Manoj, silver medallist in the same category at the Delhi Commonwealth Games, earlier lost to Taleb Nematpour of Iran 0-3 in the semi-finals.
The Indian defeated Syrian Nezar Oudeh 3-0 on his way to the last four.
In the pre-quarterfinals, he blanked Ali Awarke with identical scoreline.
Sanjay and Anil Kumar, the other Indian grapplers in the fray Monday, bowed out of the competition.
Sanjay was beaten by Ylvas Esenov of Kyrgyzstan 0-3 in the greco-roman 74 kg in the pre-quarterfinals while Anil lost to Esenov’s countryman Azamat Erkimbaev 0-3 in the greco-roman 96 kg in another round of 16 contest.
Ravinder Singh in 60 kg and Sunil Kumar Rana in 66 kg won a bronze each for India on the opening day of the competition.
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