Saturday, March 31, 2012

Wrestling News
At Asian Qualifying Tournament 2012, Astana

Freestyle - 55kg
[QF] Amit Kumar (IND) bt Basheer Ahmed Mohammed Al Yamani (YEM) 6-0
[SF] Amit Kumar (IND) bt Xiaobin Hong (CHN) 6-1

[F] Amit Kumar (IND) bt Shinichi Yumoto (JPN) 0-0 (5-0 on technical points)

Freestyle - 60kg
[R1] Yogeshwar Dutt (IND) bt Ulan Nadyrbek Uulu (KGZ) 7-7 (3-1 on technical points)
[QF] Yogeshwar Dutt (IND) bt Dilshod Mansurov (UZB) 8-2
[SF] Yogeshwar Dutt (IND) bt Mandakhnaran Ganzorig (MGL) 8-0

[F] Yogeshwar Dutt (IND) l Masoud Mahmoud Esmaeil Poorjouybari (IRI) 2-4

Freestyle - 66kg
[R1] Sushil KUmar (IND) bt Innokentii Innokentev (KGZ) 4-1
[QF] Sushil Kumar (IND) bt Zalimkhan Yusupov (TJK) 3-3 (3-1 on technical points)

[SF} Sushil Kumar (IND) l Akzhurek Tanatarov (KAZ) 2-5

Young Amit Kumar (55kg) and Yogeshwar Dutt (60kg) became the first set of Indian wrestlers to book their London Olympics berths by clinching a gold and silver medal respectively at the Asian Qualifying Tournament ... But the fancied Sushil Kumar (66kg) failed to make the cut in Astana, Kazakhstan.

The finalists in each weight category won tickets to the London Games in the ongoing event and Asian champion Yogeshwar and Amit were the only Indians who were able to do so in the freestyle event today.

Sushil won a medal when he defeated China's Ye Erlanbieke Katai 3-1 in the repechage bout to clinch the bronze.

Narsingh Yadav (74Kg), Pawan Kumar (84kg) and Mausam Khatri (96kg) crashed out in the first round of the tournament ... They all need to try their London Olympics qualification from these last 2 tournaments at China (April 27-29) or Finland (May 4-6).

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