There is one day left before the championships endRio Olympian Sandeep Tomar failed to reach the bronze medal play-offs after losing his second repechage bout today, even as Indian grapplers continued to struggle in the World Wrestling Championships here. Tomar (57kg), along with Harphool (61kg), lost in the Round of 16 but the former got fortunate to get a repechage when his opponent from Japan made the finals. Earlier, both Sandeep and Harphool lost in the Round of 16. While Yuki Takahashi of Japan beat Sandeep 14-3, Deepak was handed a 0-10 defeat by Cengizhan Erdogan of Turkey. While Deepak went down 2-5 to Masao Matsusaka of Japan, Sumit lost to Russia's Anzor Khizriev 0-4.

Source: dna August 25, 2017 18:00 UTC