Ravi Dahiya scripts historical past, completes hat-trick of gold medals at Asian Wrestling Championships

Asian Wrestling Championships: While Ravi Dahiya gained his third straight gold medal within the 57kg class, Bajrang Punia (65 kg) and Gourav Baliyan (79 kg) gained silver medals, shedding their last bouts on Saturday.

Ravi Kumar Dahiya gained the gold medal at Asian Championships on Saturday (Reuters File Photo)

Tokyo Olympics silver medallist Ravi Kumar Dahiya grew to become the primary Indian male wrestler to win 3 gold medals on the Asian Championships when he completed on the highest step of the rostrum within the 57kg class in Mongolia on Saturday.

Ravi Kumar Dahiya gained the gold medal bout within the males’s 57kg freestyle class, beating Kazakhstan’s Rakhat Kalzhan on technical superiority. Ravi had gained gold on the 2020 version of the Asian Wrestling Championships in Delhi and in Almaty final yr.

Since profitable the silver medal on the Tokyo Games final yr, Ravi Kumar has begun the brand new season on a constant be aware. The Asian Championships stint was his second last of the season, having gained a silver on the Dan Kolov occasion in February.

BAJRANG, GOURAV WIN SILVER

Meanwhile, Bajrang Punia gained the silver medal within the 65kg freestyle class after shedding the hard-fought last bout to Iran’s Rahman Amouzadkhalili 3-1.

Gourav Baliyan gained a silver within the males’s 79kg class. He made a shocking comeback after being 0-8 down Ali Bakhtiar Savadkohi to make it 9-9 however the Iran wrestler took the gold-winning the bout on standards.

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Ravi, who hails from Nahri village in Sonepat, but once more confirmed his immense bodily prowess and tactical superiority when he outsmarted Japan’s Rikuto Arai (VSU) and pulled off a complete 12-5 win over Mongolia’s Zanabazar Zandanbud en route the ultimate.

In the title conflict, Kalzhan moved forward with a take-down and for a substantial time didn’t let the Indian make any transfer. However, true to his fashion, Ravi started to dominate the bout together with his unmatched class.

He effected six consecutive two-pointers and in-between saved himself from a left-leg assault to complete the bout early within the second interval to safe India’s first gold medal of the match this yr. (With PTI inputs).