Ravi one match away from bronze

Junior Wrestling World Championships: India’s Greco-Roman wrestlers Ravi Malik and Narinder Cheema one match away from bronze medal: Ravi Malik was the one saving grace for the Indian Greco Roman contingent on the junior world championship as he on Saturday reached the 82kg bronze medal play-off whereas different wrestlers from the
nation struggled to win even one spherical right here.

Malik started with a 6-0 win over Estonia’s Robin Uspenski and adopted that up with a 18-9 victory over Kyrgyzstan’s Zhenish Humnabekov, who received three cautions within the quarterfinal bout.

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Malik although couldn’t do a lot in opposition to Armenia’s Karen Khachatryan within the semifinal, which he misplaced by technical superiority.

As soon as Malik was placed on the ‘par terre’, Khachatryan pulled off consecutive intestine wrench strikes to complete the bout.

Narinder Cheema (97kg) was solely the second Indian wrestler who managed to win two bouts and he received the reward by getting again into the competitors by way of the repechage spherical.

Cheema edged out Germany’s Anton Erich Vieweg 6-6 after which beat Uzbekistan’s Abrorbek Nurmukhammedov 11-6.

He misplaced his quarterfinal by fall to Pavel Hlinchuk however for the reason that Belarusian made the ultimate, Cheema received one other probability.

Vikas (72kg) and Deepak (77kg) managed first spherical wins earlier than dropping.

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