Tokyo Olympics: Wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya baggage 2nd silver medal for India after Mirabai Chanu

Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya misplaced to two-time defending world champion Zavur Uguev within the males’s freestyle 57kg last on Thursday to take house the silver medal for India. Ravi Kumar Dahiya lived as much as expectations as certainly one of India’s prime medal contenders on the Tokyo Olympics (Reuters Photo)HIGHLIGHTSRavi Kumar Dahiya misplaced 4-7 in opposition to Zavur Uguev of the Russian Olympic CommitteeRavi Kumar Dahiya is the 2nd Indian wrestler after Sushil Kumar to win an Olympic silverIndia now have 2 silver and three bronze medals on the Tokyo 2020 with 3 extra days left within the OlympicsRavi Kumar on Thursday grew to become the second Indian wrestler to clinch an Olympic silver after dropping his 57kg last to Russian two-time defending world champion Zavur Uguev. This is India’s second silver and fifth medal total on the Tokyo Olympics.

Ravi Kumar joined the legendary Sushil Kumar to develop into solely the second Indian wrestler to win an Olympic silver. Sushil had settled for silver within the 2012 London Olympics.Ravi Kumar was trailing 0-2 within the first spherical earlier than he bounced again to degree the rating however the spherical ended with Uguev forward 4-2.Uguev then raced to a 7-2 lead earlier than Ravi Kumar fought again with 2 extra factors however could not overturn the 3-point deficit ultimately and misplaced the bout, however not with out giving the Russian a tricky combat.TOKYO 2020: Live Coverage of Day 13Ravi is the fourth Indian male wrestler, and fifth total, to win a medal on the Olympics. His medal additionally marks the fourth consecutive medal for India on the Olympics in wrestling. Ravi Kumar Dahiya’s mom reacts after her son clinched the silver medal in males’s wrestling 57kg (India Today Photo)The legendary KD Jadhav received bronze on the 1952 Games earlier than Sushil Kumar received a bronze and a silver at Beijing 2008 and London 2012 respectively.Yogeshwar Dutt received bronze on the London Games after which Sakshi Malik grew to become the primary Indian feminine wrestler to win an Olympic medal when she received bronze at Rio 2016.RAVI DAHIYA’S ROAD TO THE FINALOur Champ @ravidah99610903 made an exhilarating comeback to advance to the ultimateRavi to face #ROC’s Zaur Uguev within the last of Men’s Freestyle 57 Kg. Catch him Live in motion on 5 August, 4:20 PM (IST)Come on , let’s #Cheer4India@PMOIndia @ianuragthakur @NisithPramanik pic.twitter.com/WrHk8nVBTs— SAIMedia (@Media_SAI) August 4, 2021
Ravi reached the gold medal match after pinning Kazakhstan’s Nurislam Sanayev within the semi-final. Ravi had gone 9-2 down within the match however managed to carry up his defence to arrest the slide. He bought maintain of his rival with a double leg assault that resulted in a victory by fall.The 23-year-old had received each his earlier bouts on technical superiority en route the ultimate. Ravi outclassed Colombia’s Tigreros Urbano (13-2) in his opener after which outwitted Bulgaria’s Georgi Valentinov Vangelov (14-4).Click right here for IndiaToday.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.