Bishkek [Kyrgyzstan], June 5 (ANI): At the Bishkek Ranking Series 2023 in Kyrgyzstan, the Indian wrestling staff completed their competitors with 4 medals–one gold, one silver, and two bronze, as per Olympics.com.
On the final day of the competitors on Sunday, India was unable to take house any gold within the males’s freestyle class. Ravi Kumar Dahiya, who received silver on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, needed to withdraw after hurting his knee throughout warm-up previous to the 61kg class’s preliminary battle. Ravi Kumar Dahiya was slated to compete for the primary time this yr within the Bishkek meet.
The competitors happened from June 1 to June 4.
Manisha, a ladies’s 65kg competitor and 2023 Asian Championships bronze medalist, received India’s lone gold medal on the competitors, whereas Reetika, a ladies’s 72kg competitor, settled for silver.
Sarita Mor, a former Asian champion and 2021 world championship bronze medalist, received the ladies’s 59kg division. Manjeet (55 kg) of the Greco-Roman wrestling staff took house bronze on the primary day of the competitors.
On Sunday, Pankaj and Aman Sehrawat fought within the males’s 61kg quarterfinals. Pankaj defeated the senior Asian champion and the present U23 world champion by a rating of 8-2.
However, Pankaj was on the shedding facet of his semi-final to the eventual gold medallist Taiyrbek Zhumashbek Uulu of Kyrgyzstan 7-0 and the bronze medal playoff to Emrah Ormanoglu of Turkey 6-1.
Mulayam Yadav within the 70kg division was the one different Indian wrestler to get to the bronze medal match on Sunday. He certified by defeating Doszhan Asetov of Kazakhstan 9-4 earlier than defeating Davit Patsinashvili of Georgia 6-2.
The eventual gold medalist Orozobek Toktomambetov of Kyrgyzstan interrupted Mulayam Yadav’s profitable streak within the semifinal with a win by 7-1.
Mulayam Yadav misplaced towards Servet Coskun of Turkey within the bronze medal playoff after the scores had been tied 6-6.
The Asian championship silver medalist Nisha Dahiya (ladies’s 68kg) and Olympians Sonam Malik (ladies’s 62kg) and Deepak Punia (males’s 86kg), the defending Commonwealth Games champion, couldn’t advance to the medal rounds.
Budapest, Hungary will host the fourth and ultimate wrestling rating sequence of the yr from July 13 to July 16. Wrestlers can get precious rating factors in these rating sequence occasions, which can assist them advance to larger seeds in essential contests. (ANI)