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Indian freestyle wrestlers endure tough day at Asian Championship

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Amman: India's men's freestyle wrestlers, except Sujeet Kalkal, struggled to cross even the first hurdle at the Asian Championships and three of them are now awaiting for the repechage route to open for them, here Saturday.

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In the 65kg, Sujeet was off to a flying start, beating Palestinian Abdullah Assaf by technical superiority but could not breach the defence of Japanese Kaisei Tanabe.

Sujeet can still bounce back in medal contention via repechage route as Tanabe has made the title clash.

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