Geeta Phogat wins bronze in Asian championship

[Anup Tiwari]

NEW DELHI: Geeta Phogat won a
bronze medal in the Women's
Freestyle 58kg category in the Senior Asian Wrestling championship in Doha on Wednesday. She defeated Vietnam's Thi Loan Nyguen by Fall verdict in the bronze medal play-off.En-route to the bronze medal play off, Geeta lost in pool bout only to Kaori Icho of Japan, the Olympic gold medallist.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

NEW DELHI: The silver medal won by
Indian athlete Manju Bala at the
Incheon Asian Games has been
downgraded to bronze after a
Chinese participant, then charged
with a doping offence, was on
Wednesday reinstated as the gold
medallist of the women's hammer
throw event.