WRESTLING 2LST

Sanjay displayed a gritty performance and defeated his
English opponent 2-0.
Against Addinall, Sanjay adopted a wait and watch policy
and scored points whenever he got an opportunity. The Indian
scored a point each in both the rounds to pocket his first
Commonwealth Games gold.
Sanjay got the better of Samoa's Laupule Ekeroma 3-0 and
Perefegha Kiribein of Nigeria 2-0 in his earlier two bouts.
If that was not enough, veteran Anil Kumar made it three
out of three for India when he outclassed Australia's Hassene
Fkiri in the final to win the gold in the 96kg.
Anil was by far the better wrestler on display and kept
his calm to beat his Australian rival 6-0 in the aggressive
title decider.
South Africa's Hugues Kakoma Bella-Lufu earned the silver
in this category after Fkiri was stripped off the silver medal
for indecent behaviour.
In the final bout against Sanjay, Fkiri was cautioned
thrice by the umpire for dangerous play.
The Australian repeated the mistake again, forcing the
umpire to disqualify him and asked to leave the mat. But while
leaving Fkiri showed middle finger to his opponent and the
judges which eventually cost him his silver medal.
Canada's Eric Feunekes, who lost to Hugues Kakoma in the
bronze medal play-off bout, was awarded the bronze medal in
Fkiri's place.
Earlier, Anil had a contrasting opening two bouts as he
overpowered Mark Montogomery of Northern Ireland 13-0 in his
first match of the day but later had to work hard to clinch a
3-1 victory over South African Hugues Kakoma in the semifinal.
PTI