Wrestling News: Wrestler Deepak Punia talks exclusively to PS

Only 29 days after Deepak Punia became the first Indian wrestler in 18 years to win gold at the Junior World Championships, he retired from the 86-kg final to win a silver in his very first outing at the senior Worlds. It has been an extraordinary couple of months for the 20-year-old and it only gets better when one considers the fact that he went all the way to the final in Nur-Sultan despite carrying an ankle injury for much of the tournament. However, the injury caught up with him in the end -- Deepak was visibly struggling after beating Switzerland's Stefan Reichmuth 8-2 in the semi-final and the next day, it had emerged that he had pulled out of the final.