Sushil Kumar wins Bronze for India in Wrestling after 1952!

Wrestlers won the race to Bronze for India. Sushil Kumar manages to win the bronze medal in wrestling ahead of the Boxers who have their matches scheduled later in the day.

Sushil Kumar, the wrestler defeated Leonid Spiridonov of Kazakhstan 3-1 in the repechage match of the men's freestyle wrestling 66kg to win India's India's first wrestling medal since the 1952 Helsinki Games.

He is only the second Indian wrestler after Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav to win an Olympic medal. Jadhav had won a bronze medal in the 1952 Games.

Incidently, this is also the first time since 1952 that India has two Olympic medals.

Earlier, Abhinav Bindra won first-ever Olympics gold medal for the country in the 10meter air rifle event.

3 cheers for the Indian contingent...