[Asian Games] Jeong Hanjae Wins Bronze in Greco-Roman 60kg... First Wrestling Medal

On the 4th, at the Lin'an Sports Culture Exhibition Center in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, during the men's Greco-Roman 60kg quarterfinals of the 19th Hangzhou Asian Games wrestling event, Korean athlete Jeong Han-jae is competing against Kyrgyzstan's Zhoraman Sasenbekov.
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In the men's Greco-Roman wrestling 60kg category, Jeong Han-jae (28, Suwon City Hall) won the bronze medal. This is the first medal in wrestling at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games.

On the 4th, at the Lin'an Sports Culture and Exhibition Center in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, Jeong Han-jae defeated Islomomon Bakhkhramov (Uzbekistan) 5-4 in the men's Greco-Roman wrestling 60kg repechage bronze medal match to claim the bronze medal.

Jeong Han-jae scored 2 points first by successfully executing a tackle technique with 1 minute and 32 seconds remaining in the first period. He finished the first period leading 3-0 and continued to control the match in the second period. With 2 minutes and 7 seconds left in the match, he added one more point due to his opponent's foul.

However, Jeong Han-jae conceded a throw technique 14 seconds before the end of the match, allowing the score to tie at 4-4.

Jeong Han-jae dramatically ended the match just before defeat. With 10 seconds remaining, he earned one point from his opponent's foul and won 5-4.

Earlier that day, Jeong Han-jae lost 0-9 by technical fall in the second period to world number one Zholaman Shasenbekov (Kyrgyzstan) in the quarterfinals, but since Zholaman advanced to the final, Jeong earned a chance in the repechage.

In the first round of the repechage, he easily defeated Aslamon Azizov (Tajikistan) 9-0 by technical fall, advancing to the bronze medal match.