#Birmingham: India won gold again at the Commonwealth Games. Wrestler Deepak Punia won India’s ninth Commonwealth Games gold in the 86kg category by defeating arch-rival Mohammad Inam of Pakistan. The score was 0-3, he was only 23 years old. In 2021, he had to lose his bronze medal in Tokyo Olympics (2020) despite playing extremely well. But this year’s success surpassed everything.
Deepak Punia won the men’s 86 kg category. The Indian wrestler defeated New Zealand’s Matthew Oxenham in 3 minutes 22 seconds to reach the quarter-finals of the men’s 86 kg category. Punia defeated Oxenham by gaining 10 technical points. After that, Deepak Punia made it to the last four by defeating Sierra Leone’s Sheku Kasegbama in the quarter finals.
Incidentally, Bajrang Punia won gold again at the Commonwealth Games. Bajrang defeated Canada’s Lachlan McNeill by 9-2 points in the 65 kg freestyle category, the Indian wrestler won gold again at the Commonwealth Games after Gold Coast. At the 2014 Glasgow Games, he won silver in the 61 kg category.
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