India's Bajrang Punia after winning Semifinals round in the men's freestyle wrestling 65kg against Mongolia's Batmagnai Batchuluun at the Asian Games 2018 in Jakarta on Sunday. (Photo | PTI) 
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Wrestler Bajrang dedicates his Asiad gold to Vajpayee

It was Bajrang's second successive gold medal at the Asian Games after his triumph in Incheon 2014 in the 61 kg category.

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NEW DELHI:  Wrestler Bajrang Punia, who clinched the gold medal in the men's freestyle 65 kg category at Asian Games dedicated his medal to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

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Bajrang clinched the gold medal defeating Daichi Takatani of Japan 11-8 in the final to give India its first gold of the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta.

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