{"id":3675,"date":"2017-12-18T15:02:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T09:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.smartworld.asia\/?p=3675"},"modified":"2017-12-18T15:03:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T09:33:14","slug":"sushil-sakshi-defeated-make-nation-proud-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/sushil-sakshi-defeated-make-nation-proud-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"Sushil and Sakshi defeated and make nation proud: Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sushil Kumar, returning to wrestling after almost three years, on Sunday clinched a gold medal at the Commonwealth Wrestling Championships in Johannesburg, South Africa.<\/h2>\n

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The two-time Olympic medallist defeated New Zealand’s Akash Khullar in the final of the men’s 74-kilogram freestyle category.<\/p>\n

India\u2019s other wrestler in the same category, Parveen Rana, also won a bronze medal.<\/p>\n

Soon after the victory, Sushil took to his Twitter handle and dedicated the win to his coach and motherland.<\/p>\n

Sushil won bronze in 2008 Beijing Olympics and then followed it up with a silver in 2012 London Games.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a very proud and emotional moment for me as I have returned to the mat on international level after a gap of 3years. I want to dedicate this Gold medal won in #Commonwealthwrestlingchampionship<\/a> at #SouthAfrica<\/a> to my guru and to my Nation. JaiHind??<\/p>\n

\u2014 Sushil Kumar (@WrestlerSushil) December 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With this win, Sushil clinched his fifth title at the Commonwealth level.
\nSakshi defeated New Zealand’s Tayla Tuahine Ford by a score of 13-2 in the final of the 62 kg women’s freestyle category to add another yellow metal for India.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day returning to international wrestling after more than three years, Sushil defeated New Zealand Akash Khullar’s via a pinfall in the final of the 74kg freestyle category to clinch the yellow metal.<\/p>\n

It was his first medal in international wrestling since his gold medal in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sushil Kumar, returning to wrestling after almost three years, on Sunday clinched a gold medal at the Commonwealth Wrestling Championships in Johannesburg, South Africa. The two-time Olympic medallist defeated New Zealand’s Akash Khullar in the final of the men’s 74-kilogram freestyle category. India\u2019s other wrestler in the same category, Parveen Rana, also won a bronze …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5218,5219],"class_list":["post-3675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","tag-gold-medal","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}