Sarita Mor and Sushma Shokeen on Thursday won bronze medals for India in their respective women's freestyle weight categories at the Asian Wrestling Championships in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Two-time Asian Champion Sarita Mor won two of her four group matches in the 59-kilogram division to finish third in the field of five grapplers. Sarita lost to eventual gold medallist Sara Natami of Japan via technical superiority and suffered a narrow 2-1 loss to Shoovdor Baatarjav of Mongolia in her first two matches. However, she bounced back to defeat Dilfuza Aimbetova of Uzbekistan via technical superiority and Diana Kayumova of Kazakhstan 5-2 to take bronze.

In the 55 kg weight category, Sushma Shokeen lost her matches to Umi Imai of Japan and Otgonjargal Ganbaatar of Mongolia via technical superiority. Shokeen then defeated Altyn Shagayeva from Kazakhstan 5-0 and Uzbekistan's Sarbinaz Jienbaeva 12-0 to finish third in the group of five. The remaining Indian women wrestlers – Manisha (50 kg), Sonika Hooda (68 kg) and Sudesh Kumari (76 kg) failed to bag medals.

India have so far won seven broze medals at the championships. Indian Greco-Roman wrestlers concluded their campaign at the Championships with five medals yesterday.