Ace Indian wrestler Bajrang Punia is again in medal competition after struggling a surprise defeat within the quarter-finals of the continuing International Wrestling Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.
The Indian wrestler entered the 65kg repechage rounds after a 0-10 loss to 23-year-old and two-time cadet international champion Yianni Diakomihalis of america within the quarters.
With Diakomihalis achieving the overall, Bajrang Punia entered the repechage around. He’s going to take at the winner of the bout between Vazgen Tevanyan of Armenia and Bulgaria’s Vladimirov Dubov in his first repechage bout on Sunday.
Bajrang Punia loses steam in quarter-finals
Bajrang Punia began his International Wrestling Championships medal quest on a vibrant be aware, beating Cuba’s Alejandro Enrique Valdes Tobier on issues within the pre-quarterfinals.
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The reigning Asian Video games gold medallist was once trailing 0-2 prior to he suffered an uncongenial lower to his brow, for which the bout needed to be paused for a couple of mins. Alternatively, he did neatly to carry on regardless of being closely bandaged.
He scored two takedowns and an job level to take the bout 5-4. Alternatively, within the quarter-finals, Bajrang Punia was once a light shadow of himself as he was once not able to resist the American’s onslaught and went down in a whimper.
Sagar Jaglan loses bronze medal bout, different wrestlers additionally disappoint
Sagar Jaglan’s quest for a bronze medal in 74kg ended because the 18-year-old misplaced to reigning Asian Champion Yones Aliakbar Emami of Iran 6-0.
The International under-20 bronze medallist had previous defeated Suldkhuu Olonbayar of Mongolia 7-3 to transport to the bronze medal bout.
He had entered the repechage on Friday after struggling a quarter-final defeat to three-time international champion Kyle Dake of america.
Within the 97kg match, Vicky misplaced his qualification around bout to Samuel Scherrer of Switzerland 2-2. He was once out of medal competition along side Pankaj (61kg), who additionally made an opening-round go out after taking place to Assyl Aitakyn of Kazakhstan.
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Indian wrestlers have disillusioned on this version of the International Wrestling Championships with Vinesh Phogat being the one medalist to win a medal thus far.
Edited by way of Akshay Saraswat