Pontevedra [Spain], October 20 (ANI): India continued their successful run on the U-23 World Wrestling Championship to create historical past by successful two extra bronze medals within the Greco-Roman class, taking their tally to a document three medals on Wednesday.
Nitesh received the 97 kg Bronze by defeating Brazillian Igor Fernando Alves De Queirozin within the Under-23 Senior World Wrestling Championship in Spain. The Indian wrestler fully dominated the Brazil wrestler and received 10-0 giving India its third medal.
Vikas defeated Daigo Kobayashi of Japan within the 72 kg bronze medal match to take dwelling the Bronze. The ace wrestler received 6-0, a victory by factors to offer India its second medal.
The Indian squad scripted historical past after successful three medals for the primary time within the Greco-Roman type on the Under-23 World Wrestling Championship.
Earlier Sajan received India’s first Greco-Roman medal in U-23 Wrestling World Championship. The wrestler obtained the higher of Ukraine’s Dmytro Vasetskyi within the repechage spherical to win the historic medal.
The Indian secured a 10-10 victory by factors over his Ukrainian counterpart.After securing a 3-0 win within the first spherical towards Lithuanian Aistis Liaugminas, the athlete misplaced to Moldova’s Alexandrin Gutu within the pre-quarters 0-8.
However, Sajan obtained shy on the bronze medal through the repechage system after Gutu made it into the finals of the 77 kg spherical.The ace athlete grabbed the chance with each palms to create historical past for India.
India suffered a serious blow within the U-23 World Wrestling Championships after 21 members of the 30-member squad had been denied visas to Spain by the Spanish embassy.
According to experiences within the media, the rationale for the denial of the visa is as a result of intentions of the gamers to go away the territory earlier than the expiry of the visa.The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) had picked a 30-member squad for the World Championship however solely 9 had been granted after the embassy of Spain denied visas to 21 of the wrestlers.
Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chairman Brijbhushan Sharan Singh termed the denial of visas to 21 members of the 30-strong Indian squad for the U-23 World Wrestling Championships by the Spanish Embassy as extremely unlucky.
“This has happened for the very first time. When a tournament is assigned to a country, there is a condition that they would not stop players from any country from coming, not even players from countries with which they have strained relations,” informed the chairman to ANI.
“It is highly unfortunate that it has happened. Asian Championships happened two years back and back then we had highly tensed relations with Pakistan. Despite that, we gave visas, hotel and security to Pakistan players and dropped them safely at the Wagah border after the tournament,” he added.Brijbhushan identified that 9 out of 30 gamers have gotten their visas and those who’ve been denied a visa have supporting paperwork from the federal government and the organisers of the championships. (ANI)