Gaurav, Anita wins, India creates unique record as all 14 wrestlers finished with 14 gold medals
Gaurav, Anita wins, India creates unique record as all 14 wrestlers finished with 14 gold medals
On the last day of the SAF wrestling competitions on Monday Indian wrestlers have created unique record. India wrestlers entered 14 categories (7 each in Men / Women) and all ended up with gold medals. Gaurav Baliyan in the 74kg and one Anita Sheoran in women’s 68kg won gold medals on Monday morning to keep the gold winning record of India intact. As per the rules of SAF Games, each country can enter maximum of 14 categories out of 20.
Both Gaurav and Anita did not face any resistance from their opponents and won the gold medals with complete ease. 48 secs is what Anita took to to pin Sri-Lankan wrestler and won gold medal for India. Young Gaurav who has impressed every wrestling pundit in last few months with his show in the U23 World Championships and Senior National Championships did not even break sweat before pinning down both his opponents from Bangladesh and Sri-Lanka and register perfect golden record for his country at SAF 2019.
Earlier the Indian wrestlers golden show continued on the day 3 as well. India once again kept the perfect record of winning gold medal in each category they have entered by winning 4 more gold medals on Sunday. Rio Olympic medallist Sakshi Malik (WW 62Kg), U23 World Silver medallist Ravinder (61kg), Anshu (59kg) and Pawan Kumar (86kg) register gold medals for India on Sunday.

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