Sunday, April 24, 2016

Wrestling News

At 2016 World Olympic Qualification Tournament 1, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Men's freestyle 57 kg
[R16] Sandeep Tomar (IND) bt Sezar Akgül (TUR) 11-0
[QF] Sandeep Tomar (IND) bt Ulukbek Zholdoshbekov (KGZ) 4-1
[SF] Sandeep Tomar (IND) l Mirjalal Hasanzada (AZE) 8-8

For Bronze medal
Sandeep Tomar (IND) bt Alexandru Chirtoacă (MDA) 10-0

For Olympic wrestle-off
Sandeep Tomar (IND) bt Andriy Yatsenko (UKR) 11-0

Sandeep Tomar wins fourth Olympic quota in Men's freestyle 57 kg for India after winning Olympic wrestle-off against Ukrainian wrestler after clinching Bronze medal ... So he is joining Yogeshwar Dutt, Narsingh Yadav and from Greco-Roman Hardeep Singh.

Sandeep Tomar's participation in this tournament was controversial as Rahul Aware defeated him in trails but ahead of him Sandeep got this chance ... Sandeep started confidently beating Turkish wrestler convincingly ... In the quarter final Sandeep faced real challenge but he managed to come over Kyrgyzstan wrestler ... In the semis Sandeep was 8-6 up when 15 seconds were remaining against Azerbaijani wrestler ... But Hasanzada managed to take down him and won it on last point win criteria ... In the Bronze medal match Sandeep playing attacking wrestling and won the bout in dominating fashion within couple of minute against Moldova wrestler Chirtoacă ... Total three wrestlers were going to qualify from this group so wrestle-off happened between two Bronze medal winners ... Sandeep continued with his attacking wrestling and defeated Ukrainian Andriy Yatsenko convincingly.

1 comment:

Amit Joshi said...

Another Indian Dattu Bhokanal qualified for Olympics rowing (Men's Single Sculls)

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