Junior International Championships: Indian grapplers go back with a wealthy haul of medals
In a primary, Indian ladies completed 3rd within the Junior International Wrestling Championships in Ulfa, Russia.
USA 143 issues, Russia 134 issues, India 134 issues, Belarus 96 issues and Turkey 92 issues have been the highest 5 finishers in issues status.
Indian ladies gained 5 medals together with 3 silver medals.
Devi Sanju appeared exhausted and settled for silver as she used to be thrashed by means of hosts Alina Kasabieva 0-10 within the gold medal fit of ladies’s freestyle 62kg class. Within the semifinals, Devi beat her opponent Soltanova of Azerbaijan by means of 8-Five in a bout which noticed the Indian grappler clawing again in taste to win the overall spot.
“There have been simplest the lads. It used to be a little bizarre to coach with the lads,” Devi, 20 informed UWW.org how her brother offered her to wrestling.
“Even now I educate with the ladies simplest on the coaching camps, again house I nonetheless educate with the lads,” Devi mentioned and added when she reached the educational corridor for the primary time, there have been no ladies wrestling.
Bhateri misplaced to Irina Ringaci of Moldova 2-12 within the ultimate of ladies’s 65kg class and Bipasha in 76kg class too gained a silver medal every. En path to the gold medal fit, Bipasha defeated Dilnaz Mulkinova of Kazakhstan 6-Three and Odbag Ulzibat of Mongolia 9-4.
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Simran (50kg) and Sito (55kg) gained bronze medals. Within the 72kg class, Saneh by way of harm default (knee harm) misplaced the bronze medal to Russia’s Mariam Guseinova.
In the meantime, the lads gained six – one silver and 5 bronze medals.
Within the males’s freestyle, India completed 6th amongst 12 international locations in medals tally and 5th amongst issues desk.
Within the 61kg class, Ravinder used to be the lone Indian to make it to the overall simplest to lose Iranian rival Rahman Amouzadkhalili 9-3. Ravinder beat Levik Mikayelyan of Armenia 12-2 within the semifinals.
Yash (74kg), Gourav Baliyan (79kg), Pruthviraj Patil (92kg), Deepak (97kg), Anirudh (125kg) applied the whole use of the repechage spherical and went directly to win bronze medals.
Wrestling pundits have been dismayed as not one of the Indians may make an affect within the 57,65 and 86 weight classes for which Indians are sturdy or even certified for the new Tokyo Olympics.
Iran 178 issues, Russia 142 issues, USA 129 issues, Azerbaijan 122 issues and India 101 issues have been the highest 5 finishers in level standings.
Within the earlier 2019 version at Tallinn, Estonia, India gained one gold and two bronze medals and have been 11th amongst 25 international locations.
