India's [ Images ] male freestyle wrestlers started their Olympics [ Images ] campaign on a disappointing note, as both young Amit Kumar and Narsingh Pancham Yadav crashed out of their respective categories in contrasting fashion, at the ExCel centre in London [ Images ], on Friday.
While Amit's campaign ended after losing in the second round at the repechage stage of the 55kg fresstyle category, Narsingh lost his opening bout in the 74kg division.
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Amit, the youngest wrestler in the Indian contingent at 19, was handed a lifeline as he made it to the repechage stage after losing the quarter-final bout.
But the Indian went down 0-3 to Radoslav Marinov Velikov of Bulgaria and lost out on a place in the bronze medal play-off tie.
He, however, started off well, beating Asian champion Hassan Sabzali Rahimi of Iran in the pre-quarter-finals before going down 1-3 to Georgia's Vladimer Khinchegashvili rather tamely in the last eight.
But with the Georgian progressing to the final, Amit got another chance to have a crack at the bronze medal in the repechage.
Narsingh, however, had no such luck as his vanquisher, Matthew Judah Gentry of Canada [ Images ], also lost in the subsequent round in the 74kg freestyle category.
The wrestler from Mumbai [ Images ] lost 1-3 in the pre-quarters.
Image: Bulgaria's Radoslav Marinov Velikov, in red, competes against India's Amit Kumar, in blue, during a 55-kg men's freestyle wrestling competition.
Photograph: Paul Sancya/AP
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