Indians Who Brought Glory To The Country At Olympics 2012

Yogeshwar Dutt:

Yogeshwar Dutt also brought glory to the country at Olympics 2012. He put up a brilliant display of freestyle wrestling in the Olympic Games and won a bronze medal at the ExCel Arena to give a late spark to India's campaign.

The 29-year-old experienced grappler from Sonepat in Haryana showed marvelous fighting spirit and displayed excellent technique against three very strong rivals in the repechage rounds to clinch India's fifth medal of the Games.

Dutt bagged the bronze as he staged a brilliant rally after losing the opening round to North Korea's Jong Myong Ri on his way to recording an emphatic 3-1 victory in the 60kg freestyle play-off. Dutt, who had narrowly missed the bronze at Beijing, had to fight five bouts on a single day to get the bronze, and his lone loss was against reigning world champion Besik Kudukhov of Russia in the prequarters.

Yogeshwar started off with a win over World Championship runner-up Franklin Gomez Matos of Puerto Rico and followed it with another radiant victory over Iran's Masoud Esmaeilpoorjouybari to be one win away from a medal.

(With agency inputs)