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- Wrestler Bajrang Punia won the silver medal after he lost to Japan’s Takuto Otoguro in the 65kg final of the Wrestling World Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
- It is his second medal at the Worlds. Bajrang had won a bronze in 2013 edition.
- He is only the 4th Indian ever to make it to the World Championships final match.
- Otoguru became Japan's youngest World Champion at the age of 19.
- Sushil Kumar, country's greatest ever wrestler, is the lone Indian to win a gold medal at the Worlds, achieving the feat in 2010 in Moscow in the 66kg category.
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