Geeta Gives India its First Gold from Women's Wrestling


New Delhi, Oct 8 (PTI): Haryana's Geeta won India's first ever gold medal in women?s wrestling in the 55kg freestyle category at the Commonwealth Games here on Thursday.

The hosts also got a silver in the 48 kg freestyle category in which Nirmala Devi lost her title round bout against Canadian opponent Carol Huynh.

Suman Kundu got India its third medal from the competition winning her bronze medal play-off in the 63 kg category.

Geeta, from Bhiwani, who had earlier won gold in the Commonwealth Wrestling Championship, literally toyed with her Australian opponent Emily Bensted by pinning her down in the second round with still a few seconds left for the bout to end. Geeta was enjoying a whopping lead of 8-1.

The Indian grappler controlled the proceedings right from the start and never let her opponent make a comeback.
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