London Olympics 2012 Wrestling: India's Yogeshwar Dutt wins opening bout

Yogeshwar Dutt will take on Bulgaria`s Anatolie Ilarionovitch Guidea in the opening round of the men`s 60 kg freestyle wrestling event at the London Olympics 2012.

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London: India's Yogeshwar Dutt won his opening bout defeating Anatolie Ilarionovitch of Bulgaria 2-1 in the qualification round and has entered the pre-quarters. CLICK HERE FOR HIS PROFILE » In pre-quarters, he will now face Russia's Besik Kudukhov who defeated Franklin Gomez Matos of Puerto Rico. As it happened Period 3: Dutt has won 5-2. Period 2: Dutt has won the second period 2-0. It all now boils down to the third period. Period 1: First period has ended 0-0. Antolie has won the toss and will get the advantageous clinch position. He has succsefully made use of that and gets the first point and the period. The match is underway. At 30, this could be the last chance saloon to grab an Olympic medal for Commonwealth Games wrestling gold medallist Yogeshwar Dutt, who missed out on a bronze by a whisker at Beijing four years ago. Dutt will take on Bulgaria`s Anatolie Ilarionovitch Guidea in the opening round of the men`s 60 kg freestyle wrestling event at the London Olympics 2012. The match starts at 5:40 (IST)