Rajneesh Dalal became the first gold medalist

The 23-year-old wrestler Rajneesh Dalal shown an impressive performance and became the first gold medallist of the 1st Hari Ram Indian Grand Prix Tournament at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium on Saturday for 60kg freestyle class.

A resident of Jhajjar, Haryana, Rajneesh was quite impressive throughout the tournament and shown immaculate skills to gain the title. He defeated, Rajneesh defeated Nigerian Welson (3-2, 3-1), Iranian Morad Gholiei (5-0, 6-3) and Georgian Baliashvili (0-1, 6-3, 1-0) to make it to the last four and clashed with Batsai Khan of Mongolia in semi-final and defeated him by 4-2, 8-8 to proceed to the finals.

Dalal thrashed, Kim Jin Cheol of Korea by 3-0, 2-0 in the finals and became the first gold medallist of the 1st Hari Ram Indian Grand Prix Tournament.

In one other match of women's 51kg class, Neha Rathi, ended with a silver medal. She lost against Hiromi Sakurai of Japan (1-1, 0-2) in the finals. Neha, who participated in Olympic qualifiers in China in 48kg weight class, had defeated Yakhyarova of Kazakhstan and Conder Whitney, America to reach the finals.

In the women's 59kg category, Kamlesh brought the bronze for the country.