Wrestler Satywart Kadian wins bronze at Youth Olympics
By IANSTuesday, August 17, 2010
SINGAPORE - India won their second medal in the inaugural Youth Olympics here Tuesday with wrestler Satywart Kadian bagging the bronze in the men’s freestyle 100kg event.
Kadian defeated Geno Petriashvili of Georgia 3-1 to win the second medal for the country after teammate Pooja Dhanda won a silver in women’s freestyle 60kg wrestling event Monday.
Earlier in the day, Kadian fought back after losing to Cuban Abraham De Jesus Conyedo Ruano 0-3 in his first group match. The Indian came back to beat Parmvir Dhesi of Canada 3-0 and Andries Schuttl of South Africa 3-1 to finish second in Group B and book a place for the bronze medal match.
Ali Magomedabirov of Azerbaizan won the gold beating Jesus Conyedo Ruano 3-0.
In badminton, Sunil Kumar Prannoy continued his good run and entered the semifinals of the boys singles. The Indian shuttler defeated Tse-Feng Hsieh of Chinese Taipei 21-13, 18-21, 24-22 in a nail-biting quartefinal. He will face J. Kang of Korea next.
Another medal hope, Yuki Bhambri, beat Chi-Lian Huang of Chinese Taipei 6-2, 6-4 in the second round of boys singles to reach the tennis singles quarterfinals, where he will meet John Morrissey of Ireland.
It was a mixed bag for India in athletics.
Arjun qualified for boys discus throw final by finishing first in the qualification with a personal best throw of 63.90m.
Indrajeet Patel finished 9th in boys 3000m qualification round with 8:15.02sec and failed to qualify for the final.
In rowing, Yasin Khan and Gurpreet Singh finished fifth in the junior men’s pair semifinals while Thomas Nimmy and Deo Mitali Sekhar came sixth in junior women’s pair semifinal.
–Indo–Asian News Service
