New Delhi, Oct. 4 -- Asian Games gold medalist wrestler Sujeet Kalkal's father, Dayanand, reflected on his son's Asian Games gold medal triumph, opening up about his journey from a football player to an Asian wrestling champion and how he balanced his studies and sport to maintain his spot as a class topper as a non-medical science student.

Sujeet outclassed Tajikistan's Abdulmazhid Kudiev in the men's freestyle 65kg final on Friday to get India's first Asiad gold in wrestling since the golds by Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat at the Jakarta-Palembang 2018 edition. It took a Herculean effort to etch his name in wrestling history, as at one point, he was down 2-9 with one minute and 40 seconds left in the bout. From there on, Sujeet produ...