Olympics News
At London Olympics 2012, England
Wrestling
Men's 55kg Freestyle
[R2] Amit Kumar (IND) bt Hassan Sabzali Rahimi (IRI) 3-1 (2-2 points)
[QF] Amit Kumar (IND) l Vladimer Khinchegashvili (GEO) 1-3 (1-7 points)
Repechage Round
[R2] Amit Kumar (IND) l Radoslav Marinov Velikov (BUL) 0-3 (0-2 points)
Men's 74kg Freestyle
[R2] Narsingh Pancham Yadav (IND) l Matthew Judah Gentry (CAN) 1-3 CP (1-4 points)
Amit Kumar scored huge upset win over Iranian wrestler Hassan Sabzali Rahimi, who was current Asian champion, bronze medalist at World Championships and former World junior champion ... Iranian won the first round 1-0 on point ... Amit Kumar responded well to win the second round with similar score of 1-0 ... In the final round both wrestlers tried and round ended 1-1 but match was awarded to Amit Kumar on the last scored technical point.
But in the quarter final young Georgian wrestler proved strong for Amit Kumar ... He take advantage of mistakes by over defensive Amit Kumar ... Khinchegashvili won the first round easily 4-0 ... After losing the first round Amit Kumar tried hard to win the second but made mistakes in aggression which cost him the match ... Tough luck but good experience for young Amit Kumar.
Big tactical error from Amit Kumar and his team ... Bulgarian wrestler wasn't better than Amit Kumar so unnecessary defensive approach by him in this bout ... Both rounds ended with 0-0 and both times Bulgarian wrestler had the advantage in the clinch ... In both occasion Velikov managed to score a point ... Big learning experience for Amit Kumar from this Olympics that unnecessary too much defensive approach didn't work.
Narsingh Yadav lost against Canadian in the first round on points ... After losing the first round Narsingh wrestled well in the second ... This round tied 1-1 at the end but awarded to Matthew so he won this match.
At London Olympics 2012, England
Wrestling
Men's 55kg Freestyle
[R2] Amit Kumar (IND) bt Hassan Sabzali Rahimi (IRI) 3-1 (2-2 points)
[QF] Amit Kumar (IND) l Vladimer Khinchegashvili (GEO) 1-3 (1-7 points)
Repechage Round
[R2] Amit Kumar (IND) l Radoslav Marinov Velikov (BUL) 0-3 (0-2 points)
Men's 74kg Freestyle
[R2] Narsingh Pancham Yadav (IND) l Matthew Judah Gentry (CAN) 1-3 CP (1-4 points)
Amit Kumar scored huge upset win over Iranian wrestler Hassan Sabzali Rahimi, who was current Asian champion, bronze medalist at World Championships and former World junior champion ... Iranian won the first round 1-0 on point ... Amit Kumar responded well to win the second round with similar score of 1-0 ... In the final round both wrestlers tried and round ended 1-1 but match was awarded to Amit Kumar on the last scored technical point.
But in the quarter final young Georgian wrestler proved strong for Amit Kumar ... He take advantage of mistakes by over defensive Amit Kumar ... Khinchegashvili won the first round easily 4-0 ... After losing the first round Amit Kumar tried hard to win the second but made mistakes in aggression which cost him the match ... Tough luck but good experience for young Amit Kumar.
Big tactical error from Amit Kumar and his team ... Bulgarian wrestler wasn't better than Amit Kumar so unnecessary defensive approach by him in this bout ... Both rounds ended with 0-0 and both times Bulgarian wrestler had the advantage in the clinch ... In both occasion Velikov managed to score a point ... Big learning experience for Amit Kumar from this Olympics that unnecessary too much defensive approach didn't work.
Narsingh Yadav lost against Canadian in the first round on points ... After losing the first round Narsingh wrestled well in the second ... This round tied 1-1 at the end but awarded to Matthew so he won this match.
