Wrestling Federation of India assistant secretary Vinod Tomar confirmed that after days of uncertainty, the entire Pakistani contingent have been granted visas.
On the penultimate day of the competition, Gurpreet had to be satisfied with a second spot finish after being handed a 0-8 defeat by Hyeonwoo Kim of Korea in the final.
Indian men's freestyle wrestlers continued their impressive performance at the Asian Wrestling Championships in China on Wednesday.
With this performance, Bajrang yet again sounded a warning to his opponents that he will be a strong medal contender at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Besides Sakshi and Bajrang, Vinesh Phogat is another big names who would be vying for top honours during the mega-event.
India, with 173 points, finished second in the team championship behind Iran (189 points), Uzbekistan finished third with 128 points.
Besides the rich haul of eight medals, Navjot Kaur had scripted history by becoming the first Indian woman wrestler to win a gold in the senior continental championship as she clinched the yellow metal in the 65kg freestyle category.
The two medals took India's tally to eight -- gold and silver each with six bronze medals.
Navjot thrashed Japan's Miya Imai 9-1 in the final to emerge champion in the women's 65-kilogram category to clinch gold.
Phogat lost to Chinese wrestler Chun Lei by a narrow margin of 3-2 in women final of the 50kg category (freestyle).
New Delhi: Vinesh settled for silver in Women's Freestyle 48kg division after losing her final bout to Japan's Yuki Irie, while Narsingh Pancham Yadav bagged a bronze in Men's 74kg category in the Senior Asian
Itanagar, Jun 23: Upcoming wrestler from Arunachal Pradesh Dada Riba has been selected to participate in the Asian Wrestling Championship to be held in Kazakhstan from July 4 next.Riba, a student of Army Sports Institute
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