Bishkek [Kyrgyzstan], India's 19-year-old Udit won a silver medal in the men's 57kg category at the Asian Wrestling Championships 2024 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on Thursday, while Abhimanyu (men 70kg) and Vicky (men 97kg) also won bronze medals. . A total of five Indian wrestlers, all in the men's freestyle division, were in competition on Thursday in their respective weight categories to take India's medal tally to three after the opening day of competition. Rohit (67kg) and Parvinder Singh (79kg) also competed but could not finish on the podium, U20 Asian champion Udit defeated Iran's Ibrahim Mahdi Khari 10-8 in the qualification round, Kyrgyzstan's Almaz Smanbekov in the quarters Defeated 6-4. In the final, Kim Kum Hyeok of the Democratic Republic of Korea advanced to the gold medal match with a 4–3 victory over Kento Yumiya of Japan in the semi-finals. However, Yumiya won the final by a narrow margin of 5-4 and Udit had to settle for the silver medal.Medal. This was the first time since 2019 that India did not win a gold medal in this category. Tokyo Olympics silver medalist Ravi Dahiya scored a hat-trick of gold medals in the division from 2020 to 2022, while Aman Sehrawa remained champion in 2023. Meanwhile, Abhimanyu defeated Korea Republic's Lee Seungchul 10-0 in the 70kg quarter-finals. Gave and lost. Defeated Japan's Yoshinosuke Aoyagi by the same score in the semi-finals. Abhimanyu then came back from a three-point deficit to defeat Uzbekistan's Begizon Kuldashev 6–5 in the bronze medal match, Vicky (97 kg) defeated People's Republic of China's Tuerxunbq Muheit 9–5, but lost to Kazakhstan's Technika lost 13-0 against Rizabek Etmukhan on the basis of superiority. Semi-finals. Vicky defeated Andrei Aronov of Kyrgyzstan 10-1 and won the bronze medal.Rohit made it to the bronze medal match in the 65 kg category, but was defeated 5-0 by Japan's Masanosuke Ono. Parvinder Singh (79 kg) lost 3-0 to Japan's Ryunosuke Kamiya in the qualification round and Indian wrestlers Akash Dahiya (61 kg), Yash Tushir (74 kg), Sandeep Mann (86 kg), Vinay (92 kg) and Anirudh Kumar (125 kg) is out. Find action in the remaining five men's freestyle weight classes on Friday.