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World Wrestling Championships 2022: India’s Ravi Kumar Dahiya crashes out

Belgrade [Bulgaria], September 17 (ANI): Tokyo 2020 silver medallist Ravi Kumar Dahiya failed to duplicate his Commonwealth Games efficiency on the World Wrestling Championships 2022 in Belgrade, Serbia. He misplaced to former Asian champion Gulomjon Abdullaev of Uzbekistan within the first spherical on Friday.

Dahiya, a bronze medallist on the 2019 world championships, started the day by getting the higher of Romania’s Razvan Marian Kovacs 10-0 through technical superiority within the 57kg qualification spherical.

However, the he misplaced to 2020 Asian champion Gulomjon Abdullaev of Uzbekistan 10-0 in his second bout of the day.

Dahiya, who gained gold on the Commonwealth Games 2022 final month, trailed Abdullaev 8-0 on the finish of the primary interval. Dahiya then conceded one other two factors early within the second interval to lose through technical superiority.

The Indian’s hopes for a bronze medal additionally pale with Gulomjon Abdullaev failing to make it to the ultimate later within the day.

Commonwealth Games 2022 champion Naveen Malik additionally did not win his first world championships medal after dropping 4-1 to world No. 1 Ernazar Akmataliev within the 70kg bronze medal bout.

On Thursday, Malik misplaced his qualifying spherical bout to eventual finalist Taishi Narikuni of Japan 6-1 and was pulled into Friday’s repechage rounds.

Malik defeated 2021 Asian champion Syrbaz Talgat of Kazakhstan 11-3 within the first spherical of the repechage and bought a walkover from Ilyas Bekbulatov of Uzbekistan within the second repechage spherical owing to an harm to the latter.

Youngster Sagar Jaglan gained his bouts in opposition to Israel’s Mitchell Louis Finesilver and Mexico’s Diego Antonio Sandoval Zarco through technical superiority within the 74kg class.

However, the 18-year-old bumped into Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist and three-time world champion Kyle Dake of the USA within the quarter-final and was pinned within the very first minute of the bout.

Kyle Dake then defeated reigning Asian champion Yones Aliakbar Emamichoghaei of Iran within the semi-finals to drag Sagar Jaglan into the repechage.

Vicky Hooda, competing within the 92kg division, misplaced 4-3 to Poland’s Radoslaw Marcinkiewicz within the qualification.

Bajrang Punia, India’s most profitable wrestler on the world championships with three medals, will take the mat within the 65kg class on Saturday.

Vinesh Phogat’s bronze stays the one medal for India at this version of the world championships. (ANI)

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