India, Oct. 1 -- India have won 65 medals in wrestling at the Asian Games, 11 of them came in the Greco-Roman discipline with Nitesh Siwach ending the nation's long wait for a silver in the category. On Thursday, 23-year-old beat Mongolia's Gankhuyag Ganbaatar 9-0 to earn a victory by technical superiority in the Men's Greco-Roman 97kg semifinals, before losing to Japan's Yuri Nakazato in the final to clinch the silver.

The medal haul holds a historical significance for India in Greco-Roman wrestling as Nitesh became the first silver-medallist in the discipline since Maruti Mane (Men's 97kg) and Sajjan Singh (Men's 87kg) finished second in the 1962 Jakarta Games, the same edition where India won its only-ever gold medal in the category -...