Sunday, September 13, 2015

Wrestling News

At 2015 World Wrestling Championships, Las Vegas, USA

Men's freestyle 74 kg
Gold - Jordan Burroughs (USA)
Silver - Pürevjavyn Önörbat (MGL)
Bronze - Narsingh Pancham Yadav (IND) and Aniuar Geduev (RUS)

Bronze Medal match
Narsingh Pancham Yadav (IND) bt Zelimkhan Khadjiev (FRA) 8F-12 (won by fall)

[SF] Narsingh Pancham Yadav (IND) l Pürevjavyn Önörbat (MGL) 4-4

[QF] Narsingh Pancham Yadav (IND) bt Liván López (CUB) 16-5
[R16] Narsingh Pancham Yadav (IND) bt Soner Demirtaş (TUR) 4-3
[R32] Narsingh Pancham Yadav (IND) bt Hanoch Rachamin (ISR) 14-2

Only Narsingh Pancham Yadav manages to win Rio 2016 Quota Place for India from this World Wrestling Championships after winning Bronze medal ... Really happy for Narsingh to wins Bronze and taking full advantage of received opportunity in place of Sushil Kumar due to his injury ... He is definitely coming out of shadow of Sushil Kumar ... This will be big rivalry for place in Rio team.

In Bronze medal match, Narsingh Yadav was 4-12 down against French wrestler Zelimkhan Khadjiev with a less than a minute to go and at that points he overthrew Zelimkhan and pinned him down to win by fall ... Before that in the semis against Mongolian wrestler Pürevjavyn Önörbat, Narsingh was leading 4-3 but his Mongolian opponent won a point for 4-4 and then won the bout as he had won the last point .. In end very close loss for Narsingh.

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