London: Sushil defeated his Uzbek opponent Ikhtiyor Navruzov in the quartefinals and he will now face Akzhurek Tanatarov of Kazakhstan in the semis.
As it happened
Period 3:Sushil gets a point. ANd he has pocketed the period and the bout.
Period 2:Sushil gets a point. His opponent managed to get a point in the last seconds. It now boils down to the third period.
Period 1:Sushil leads the period 3-1. He wins the first period.
The bout has started.
Sushil Kumar will next face Ikhtiyor Navruzov of Uzbekistan in quarterfinals. The 23-year-old Uzbek had defeated Otar Tushishvili (3-1) in the pre-quarters.
Earlier, Sushil defeated Beijing gold medallist Ramazan Sahin (3-1) to move to the quarterfinals of the men's 66kg freestyle category.
The 29-year-old equalled KD Jadhav’s feat when at the 2008 Beijing Games he defeated Leonid Spiridonov of Kazakhstan in the repechage round to claim the bronze medal in men’s 66kg freestyle category.
He would be expected to better his own show at the Summer Games and fetch India its first Gold medal at the ongoing Games.
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