U23 Asian champion Sumit won the silver medal in the 60kg Greco-Roman category at the Polyak Imre & Varga Janos Memorial 2025 wrestling tournament in Budapest, Hungary, on Sunday.
The Indian wrestler was beaten 5-1 by European champion Nihat Mammadli of Azerbaijan, also a world champion in the non-Olympic 60kg event, in the final.
The Indian contingent finished with 10 medals – three gold, three silver and four bronze – at the Budapest wrestling ranking series.
Sumit beat Sadyk Lalaev 9-3 in the pre-quarterfinals before defeating Republic of Korea’s Dayhum Kim 7-4 via fall in the quarter-finals and Kazakhstan’s Galym Kabdunassarov 10-1 in the semis.
Anil Mor, meanwhile, won the bronze medal bout after beating Ikhtiyor Botirov of Uzbekistan 7-4 in the Greco-Roman 55kg. The Indian had won the gold medal in the same category at the Ulaanbaatar Open in May.
Mor had a difficult start to the campaign after losing 6-1 to European champion Emin Sefershaev in the quarter-finals but made the bronze medal match through repechage after a 7-0 win over Artiom Deleanu of Moldova.
Meanwhile, India’s other Greco-Roman wrestlers Neeraj (67kg) and Nitesh (97kg) failed to make it past qualification in their respective weight classes.
Nishant (77kg) was also beaten 9-0 in qualification to Róbert Fritsch of Hungary before losing 4-0 to the Republic of Korea’s Boseong Kang in the repechage.
The Polyak Imre & Varga Janos Memorial in Budapest was the fourth and final wrestling ranking series of the year.
The ranking points on offer will help wrestlers earn better seeding for the 2025 World Wrestling Championships, which will be held in Zagreb, Croatia from September 13 to 21.
Polyak Imre & Varga Janos Memorial 2025 wrestling: Indian medal winners
- Antim Panghal (women’s 53kg) – gold medal
- Harshita (women’s 72kg) – gold medal
- Sujeet Kalkal (men’s 65kg) – gold medal
- Neha Sangwan (women’s 57kg) – silver medal
- Priya Malik (women’s 76kg) – silver medal
- Sumit (Greco-Roman 60kg) -silver medal
- Neelam (women’s 50kg) – bronze medal
- Manisha (women’s 62kg) – bronze medal
- Rahul (men’s 57kg) – bronze medal
- Anil Mor (Greco-Roman 55kg) – bronze medal