Wrestling Worlds: Olympic medallist Ravi Dahiya out of medal rivalry

India’s Olympic silver medallist Ravi Dahiya was out of medal rivalry within the Wrestling World Championships after dropping to Uzbekistan’s Gulomjon Abdullaev within the 57kg qualification spherical right here on Friday.

However, World under-20 bronze medallist Sagar Jaglan remained within the hunt for a bronze medal within the males’s 74kg after getting into the repechage.

While Dahiya made an early exit, Naveen entered the bronze medal match after beating World No. 4 Syrbaz Talgat of Uzbekistan in 70kg opening spherical of repechage 11-3. However, Naveen’s marketing campaign ended later within the day as he misplaced to 2021 World Championship silver medallist Ernazar Akmatalieve of Kyrgyzstan, 1-4.

World No. 2 Dahiya misplaced by technical superiority (10-0) to the Uzbek in a somewhat one-sided bout.

In the boys’s 74kg quarterfinal bout, India’s Sagar Jaglan misplaced to three-time world champion winner Kyle Dake of the USA. Vicky misplaced his first spherical bout to Poland’s Radoslaw Marcinkiewicz 4-3.

World under-20 bronze medallist Jaglan acquired the higher of Israel’s Mitchell Finesilver 15-4 and Mexico’s Diego Zarco 13-2 earlier than being crushed by Olympic bronze medallist Dake within the quarterfinals.

But as Dake moved into the ultimate, Jaglan stayed within the fray for a bronze medal.

Dahiya, who received the silver on the Tokyo Olympics final 12 months, won’t be contesting in repechage for bronze as Abdullaev misplaced to Albanian wrestler Zelimkhan Abakarov.

On the opposite hand, Naveen’s win took him on to the bronze medal match as his next-round opponent Ilyas Bekbulatov (Uzbekistan) couldn’t compete as a result of an damage. But the Birmingham Commonwealth Games gold medallist Naveen failed to complete on the rostrum right here.

Dahiya had defeated Razvan Marian Kovacs of Romania by technical superiority (10-0) within the first spherical 10-0.

It was by no means going to be a straightforward outing for Dahiya as he has misplaced to World No. 30 Abdullaev a number of occasions previously.

Even although Abdullaev exacted revenge over Dahiya after his loss within the UWW Ranking Series occasion (Yasar Dogu 2022) in Istanbul in February, the Uzbek couldn’t go previous Abakarov, who received by technical superiority (13-2) to e-book his semifinal spot.