CHENNAI, India (Reuters) - Ramesh Kumar has won India's first world championship men's wrestling medal in 42 years.
Kumar bagged a bronze in the 74kg freestyle category in Denmark to become the first Indian male world medalist since Vishambhar Singh's silver in 1967, the Wrestling Federation of India said in a statement on Thursday.
Kumar defeated Alexandr Burca of Moldova in the repechage round to secure bronze.
(Reporting by Sanjay Rajan; Editing by Editing by Ed Osmond)
