India’s Olympic silver medalist Ravi Dahiya crashed out of the medal race on the Wrestling World Championships after shedding to Uzbekistan’s Gulomjon Abdullayev within the 57kg qualification spherical right here on Friday.
However, World Under-20 bronze medalist Sagar Jaglan remained within the hunt for a bronze medal within the males’s 74kg after coming into repechage.
While Dahiya obtained out early, Naveen entered the bronze medal match by defeating world No. 4 Sirbaz Talgat of Uzbekistan 11-3 within the opening spherical of 70kg of repechage. However, Naveen’s marketing campaign got here to an finish later within the day as he misplaced to 2021 World Championship silver medalist Ernazar Akmataliev of Kyrgyzstan 1-4.
World No. 2 Dahiya misplaced to Uzbek in a one-sided encounter by technical superiority (10-0).
In the boys’s 74kg quarterfinal bout, India’s Sagar Jaglan misplaced to three-time world champion champion Kyle Dack of USA. Vicky misplaced 4–3 to Poland’s Radosaw Marcinkiewicz in his first spherical match.
World Under-20 bronze medalist Jaglan defeated Israel’s Michel Finesilver 15-4 and Mexico’s Diego Zarco 13-2 earlier than shedding to Olympic bronze medalist Dac within the quarterfinals.
But because the deck reached the ultimate, Jaglan remained within the fray for the bronze medal.
Dahiya, who gained a silver medal ultimately 12 months’s Tokyo Olympics, is not going to struggle for a bronze in repechage as Abdullah misplaced to Albanian wrestler Zelimkhan Abkarov.
Naveen’s victory, then again, took them straight into the bronze medal match as their next-round rival Ilyas Bekbulatov (Uzbekistan) couldn’t compete as a result of damage. But Birmingham Commonwealth Games gold medalist Naveen failed to complete on the rostrum right here.
Dahiya defeated Romania’s Razwan Marian Kovacs with a 10-0 technical superiority (10-0) within the first spherical.
It was by no means going to be straightforward for Dahiya as he has misplaced to World No 30 Abdullah a number of instances previously.
Even although Abdullah took revenge on Dahiya after his loss on the UWW Ranking Series occasion (Yasr Dogu 2022) in Istanbul in February, the Uzbeks couldn’t get previous Abakarov, who had technical superiority (13-) to e book his semi-final spot. 2) had gained.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
