India's Gurpreet Singh and Sunil Kumar took home silver medals in their respective Greco-Roman categories at the Asian Wrestling Championships here on Saturday.
On the penultimate day of the competition, India's Greco-Roman wrestlers have already done better than the last edition, where they had won a couple of bronze medals through Rajender Kumar (55kg) and Harpreet Singh (82kg).
Gurpreet was beaten 0-8 by Hyeonwoo Kim of Korea in the final of 77kg category. The 2012 Olympic gold medallist and 2013 World Championships champion, Kim also has four Asian Championships gold medals to his credit.
Gurpreet thrashed Bakhit Sharif K Badr of Qatar 10-0 in the quarterfinals before eking out a narrow 6-5 victory over Tamerlan Shadukayev of Kazakhstan in the semis.
In the 87kg, Sunil Kumar came into the final after beating Azamat Kustubayev of Kazakhstan 6-6 in a victory by fall verdict in his semifinal bout, while he had earlier beaten Tokhirdzhon Okhonov of Tajikistan 14-7 in the last eight stage.
In the gold medal clash, he lost to Iran's Hossein Ahmad Nouri, the reigning Asian Games gold medallist -- who also has three golds from the Asian Championships.
"I wish I were a little bit more aggressive. That could have changed the colour of the medal. I will strive to train harder and do better in the upcoming tournaments. I had a chance of training in Kazakhstan and training with foreign partners helped me improved my standard," said Sunil after the final.
While Gurpreet and Sunil finished second, Prem missed out on a bronze medal on the fifth day of the tournament, losing to Kazakhstan's Damir Kuzembayev by fall in a third-fourth place fight.
Earlier in the day, India's campaign ended in the 55kg and 63kg weight divisions when Manjeet and Vikram Krushnath Kurade lost their respective quarterfinal bouts.
The Greco-Roman wrestling will continue on the final day of this tournament with Gyanender (60kg), Ravinder (67kg), Yogesh (72kg), Harpreet Singh (82kg) and Hardeep Singh (97kg) in contention.