Wrestler Deepak Punia got here agonisingly near successful a bronze medal on his Olympic debut however conceded a take-down in final 10 seconds of the 86kg play-off towards San Marino’s Myles Nazem Amine to overlook out on reaching the feat, right here on Thursday.
Deepak’s defence was excellent all through the bout however the San Marino wrestler grabbed the decisive two-pointer after getting maintain of the Indian’s proper leg and transformed it right into a take-down in dying moments of the bout.
The 22-year-old Indian, son of a milk peddler in a Haryana village, was main 2-1 earlier than that take-down but it surely was not meant to be his day.
Deepak made good use of a beneficial draw to achieve the semifinals however misplaced to the formidable American David Morris Taylor.
He earlier obtained previous Nigeria’s Ekerekeme Agiomor, the African championship bronze medallist by technical superiority after which prevailed 6-3 over China’s Zushen Lin within the quarterfinal. PTI
