Wrestling News

At 2013 Senior World Wrestling Championship, Budapest, Hungary


55 kg Freestyle


Gold - Hassan Rahimi (IRI)
Silver - Amit Kumar (IND)
Bronze - Sezer Akgul (TUR) and Nariman Israpilov (RUS)

[R1] Amit KUMAR (IND) bye
[R2] Amit KUMAR (IND) bt Yasuhiro Inaba (JPN) 8-2
[R3] Amit KUMAR (IND) bt Zoheir EL OUARRAQE (FRA) 8-0
[QF] Amit KUMAR (IND) bt Angel Alesmo ESCOBEDO (USA) 6-0
[SF] Amit KUMAR (IND) bt Sezar AKGUL (TUR) 8-0

[F] Amit KUMAR (IND) l Hassan RAHIMI (IRN) 1-2

66 kg Freestyle
[R1] Arun KUMAR (IND) bye
[R2] Arun KUMAR (IND) l Levan KELEKHSASHVILI (GEO) 0-8

96 kg Freestyle
[R1] Satywart KADAYAN (IND) bye
[R2] Satywart KADAYAN (IND) bt Gamini MADASING ACHCHILLAGE (SRI) 10-0
[R3] Satywart KADAYAN (IND) l Nicolai CEBAN (MDA) 2-5

Senior World championship is started in Hungary ... Sushil Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt missed this tournament due to injury ... On the first day we had high hope from young Amit Kumar in 55 kg freestyle, who recently won Asian championships gold in April ... As expected with some solid one-sided wins he reached in the final ... In the final both wrestlers were looking tired and Iranian didn't gave chance to attack for Amit Kumar ... In the end Iranian won the bout on the less cautions ... Still creditable performance by Amit Kumar in his first Senior World championship ... Hopefully he will keep himself motivated for Olympics medal in Rio and Tokyo.

Our other two wrestlers lost in their first and second matches in their respective weight categories..