Palwinder, Anuj win gold in senior national wrestling meet

Chandigarh, Apr 2 (UNI) Olympians Palwinder Singh Cheema of Punjab and Anuj Chaudhary of Uttar Pradesh expectedly won gold medals in their respective freestyle categories in the 52nd Senior National Wrestling Championship at Nidani in Jind district.

Palwinder defeated Rajiv Tomar of Railway Sports Promotion Board in the 120 kg final, while Anuj prevailed over Ravinder of West Bengal in the 84 kg class final bout.

Parveen Kumar of Ch Bharat Singh Memorial School downed Virender Singh of Railway Sports Promotion Board in the 120 kg Greco-Roman final.

Earlier, Haryana Finance Minister Birender Singh inaugurated the tournament in which 976 grappelers from 29 out of 31 affiliated units of the Wrestling Federation of India are competing. Member of Parliament from Hisar Jai Prakash presided over the opening ceremony.

Wrestling Federation of India president Mahinder Singh Malik was also present on the occasion.

Results: Greco-Roman: 55 kg: 1. Joginder (Haryana); 2. K L Yadav (SSCB); 3. Anurag (RSPB) and Vinayak Dalvi ( Maharashtra).

66 kg: Sunil (Mah); 2. Bhauso Patil (SSCB); 3. Pardeep Mann (Haryana) and Anand (Chandigarh).

84 kg: 1. Manoj Kumar (SSCB), 2 Jagbir (Haryana), 3 Arvind Kumar (Tamil Nadu) and Manjeet (WAD).

120 kg: 1. Parveen Kumar (CBSM, Nidani); 2. Virender Singh (RSPB); 3. Ravinder (Haryana) and Dodake Yadav ( Maharashtra).

Freestyle: 55 kg: 1. Vinod (Haryana); 2. Ramesh (SSCB); 3. Ram Chander (Maharashtra) and Sumeet (DAWA).

66 kg: 1. Sushil (RSPB); 2. Mahender (SSCB); 3. Shokender Tomar (UP) and Nar Singh Yadav (Maharashtra ) 84 kg: 1. Anuj Chaudhary (UP); 2. Ravinder (WB); 3. Naresh (AIU) and Amit Kumar (DAWA) 120 kg: 1. Palwinder Singh Cheema (Punjab); 2. Rajiv Tomar (RSPB); 3. Jagidsh Kaliraman (UP) and Rohit Patel (MP) UNI XC PDS KP1753