Yogeshwar Dutt win bronze give India 5th medal
India's Yogeshawar Dutt clinched a
bronze in the Olympic Games after beating North Korea's Jong Myong Ri
3-1 in the 60kg freestyle play-off for the medal at the ExCel arena in
London. Yogeshwar
fought back strongly in the repechage rounds to notch up three
successive victories in the space of less than an hour to provide India
its fifth medal at the London Games and the first on the mat. Yogeshwar
29-year-old from Sonepat in Haryana, who had missed a medal four years
ago at the Beijing Olympics, showed excellent technique and fighting
spirit to bring off three memorable wins on the trot for the bronze.
In
the repechage rounds, in which he had to beat three opponents,
Yogeshwar started off with a win over World Championship runner-up
Franklin Gomez Matos of Puerto Rico and followed it with another
brilliant victory over Iran's Masoud Esmaeilpoorjouybari to be one win
away from a medal.
The
two victories that came within the space of 20 minutes got Yogeshwar's
adrenaline going and he brought off another stupendous come from behind
victory over his North Korean rival to fetch the bronze.
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