60kg Free Style Wrestling : India's Yogeshwar Dutt Loses To Kenichi Yumoto Of Japan

Another Olympic medal slipped out of India's wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt missed his lead in the third and final round to lose the wrestling quarterfinal tie of the 60kg free style category against Kenichi Yumoto of Japan.

Dutt made a good start to his bout winning the first round 1-0 but Kenichi Yumoto bounced back to win the second, earning 4 points to draw parity.


Yogeshwar Dutt again seized the initiative early in the decisive third round, going ahead 1-0 but failed to hold on to the lead in the last 10 seconds and gave away two match-winning points to his opponent to lose 2-1.

Earlier in the day, Dutt had beaten Kazakhstan's Baurzhan Orazgaliyeb 3-1.