Asian Games bronze medallist Greco Roman wrestler Sunil Kumar has been consistently winning medals at the continental level and is eager to make his mark in the Paris Olympics.
Sunil, who has won a gold and silver apiece and two bronze medals in the Asian championships in the last few years and earned a podium finish in the Hangzhou Asian Games to end the country’s 13-year-old medal drought, asserted his supremacy once again at the domestic level by claiming the 87kg title in the National wrestling championships at the Railway Stadium here.
Now, Sunil wants to shift gears for the upcoming Asian qualifying event for the Olympics in April. “My target is to qualify (for the Olympics) in the Asian qualifying event. To prepare for that, I will travel with a training partner to Azerbaijan to train there for 25 days. The Sports Authority of India (SAI) is supporting me in this,” Sunil told The Hindu.
