Belgrade [Serbia], September 17 (ANI): Three Indian grapplers bowed out of the competitors in spherical two whereas Abhimanyu earned a quarterfinal end within the 70 kg males’s freestyle class on the ongoing World Wrestling Championships being held at Belgrade on Saturday.
Abhimanyu, a U23 World Championships bronze medalist from June had crushed Ukraine’s world quantity seven Ihor Nykyforuk 19-9 with a victory by fall (VFA) and Moldova’s Nicolai Grahmez 13-2 (technical superiority) to make it to the quarterfinals.
In the QFs, he misplaced to US’s Zain Allen Retherford by 2-9 through Victory by Points with Technical Points (VPO1).
He made it to the repechage spherical although, the place he’ll face Mustafo Akhmedov. The wrestler he misplaced to within the QFs made it to the ultimate, inflicting Abhimanyu to succeed in the repechage and is simply two bouts away from the bronze.
Akash Dahiya, within the males’s 61 kg freestyle class, first beat Leomid Colesnic of Moldova by 10-5 through Victory by Points with Technical Points (VPO1) however he misplaced to Uzbekistan’s Jahongirmirza Turobov within the spherical of 16 by 4-7 through Victory by Fall (VFA).
Sandeep Mann additionally began his 86 kg freestyle marketing campaign with a victory over Dejan Mitrov of North Macedonia by 10-0 through technical superiority. But he misplaced to China’s Lin Zushen within the second spherical by 0-11 through technical superiority.
Sumit, India’s 125 kg freestyle wrestler gained his first-round match to Japanese Taiki Yamamoto by 3-1 through Victory by Points with Technical Points (VPO1) however misplaced his pre-quarters bout to Poland’s Robert Baran, the seventh seed by 3-0 through ‘win by determination’ VPO.
The World Wrestling Championships 2023, the primary qualifying occasion for subsequent yr’s Olympics in Paris, started on Friday in Belgrade, Serbia. It will finish on September 24.
The World Wrestling Championships 2023 will embrace one Indian wrestler in every of the 30 medal occasions – ten in Greco-Roman and ten every in males’s and girls’s freestyle.
The World Wrestling Championships may have 90 quotas, 5 for every of the 18 Olympic weight divisions. The 4 medalists (gold, silver, and two bronze) in every of those classes will every obtain one quota place for his or her respective NOCs. The winner of the competition between the 2 bronze medal match losers will obtain the fifth quota.
Wrestlers from India will combat underneath the United World Wrestling (UWW) flag, after the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) was quickly suspended for failing to carry elections on time.
Indian wrestlers at World Wrestling Championships 2023 – full list-Men’s Greco-Roman: Ajay (55kg), Manish (60kg), Vikram (63kg), Vinayak (67kg), Ankit Gulia (72kg), Gurpreet Singh (77kg), Sajan (82kg), Manoj Kumar (87kg), Shailesh (97kg), Mehar Singh (130kg)-Women’s freestyle: Neelam Sirohi (50kg), Antim Panghal (53kg), Neha (55kg), Sarita Mor (57kg), Anjali (59kg), Manisha Bhanwala (62kg), Antim Kundu (65kg), Priyanka (68kg), Jyoti Berwal (72kg), Divya Kakran (76kg)-Men’s freestyle: Aman Sherawat (57kg), Akash Dahiya (61kg), Anuj Kumar (65kg), Abhimanyu (70kg), Naveen Malik (74kg), Sachin More (79kg), Sandeep Mann (86kg), Pruthviraj Patil (92kg), Sahil (97kg), Sumit Malik (125kg). (ANI)