Asian games: all 4 indians win bronze in best-ever show in wushu

Narender Grewal (65kg) had to be content with a bronze medal yet again in the Asian Games after losing the men's Sanda semi-finals even as the Indian Wushu team savoured their best-ever

show at the continental showpiece with four medals in Jakarta on Wednesday. All the four Indians in action were assured of at least a bronze after reaching the semi-finals but all of them

lost their last four bouts. Wushu, a Chinese Kung-fu, is different from other combat sports as it is a mix of kick-boxing and wrestling. _FOR MORE NEWS AND UPDATES FROM THE ASIAN GAMES,_

_CLICK HERE__._ Grewal, who won a bronze in Sanda 60kg in the 2014 Asian Games, lost 0-2 to Iran's Foroud Zafari in the 65kg semi-finals after getting the better of Clemente Tabugara of

the Philippines and Akmal Rakhimov in the earlier rounds. Santosh Kumar, a bronze medallist from 2013 World Championships, lost 0-2 to Vietnam's Truong Giang Bui in the Sanda 56 kg

category. Earlier in the week, Santosh had beaten Myanmar's Linn Thu Rain in the Round of 32 and followed that with a win over Yemen's Wazid Zaid Ali in Round of 16. Santosh

reached the medal round with a win in the quarter-finals over Thailand's Phithak Poakrathok. Surya Bhanu Partap Singh (60kg Sanda), who had beaten Abdul Soyan Haris and Jean Claude

Saclag in the earlier rounds, also lost 0-2 to Erfan Ahangarian of Iran in the semi-finals. Roshibina Devi (60kg women's Sanda) had a lucky draw and was seeded straight into the

quarter-finals, where she beat Pakistan's Mubashra before losing 0-1 to China's Cai Yingying in the semi-finals. Indian team coach Ravi Prakash Tripathi said training in China

ahead of the Asian Games has helped the players improve their performance. > We came here straight from China. We trained there for one month. > They have Grade 1 coaches, who helped 

our players. The government > and SAI helped us by funding these training trips and including our > athletes in TOPS. Ravi Prakash Tripathi Published: 22 Aug 2018, 9:25 PM IST