♦ Indian wrestler Sunil Kumar secured a bronze medal in the 87kg Greco Roman category at the Asian Championship in Amman, Jordan on 25 March 2025.
♦ He defeated China's Jiaxin Huang in the bronze medal match.
♦ This was Sunil Kumar’s fifth senior medal at the Asian Wrestling Championships.
♦ He won the silver medal in 2019 and ended India’s 27-year-long wait for a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling at the Asian Championships in 2020.
♦ He also clinched successive bronze medals in 2022 and 2023.
♦ At Hangzhou 2023, Sunil Kumar won India’s first Asian Games medal in Greco-Roman wrestling since Ravinder Singh and Sunil Kumar Rana won bronze medals at Guangzhou 2010.