India is no longer the “one-medal nation”. Sushil Kumar ensured that by winning a bronze medal on Wednesday, just a week after shooter Abhinav Bindra struck gold in Beijing.
Kumar beat Leonid Spiridonov of Kazakhstan in a bronze medal bout of the men’s 66kg freestyle wrestling event.
Bindra had won India’s first ever individual Olympic gold medal in the men’s 10m air rifle event on August 11.
And another medal is assured with Indian pugilist Vijender Kumar surviving in the boxing event.
On Wednesday, Sushil Kumar became the first Indian to win a wrestling medal at the Olympics since 1952.
