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At 2018 World U23 Wrestling Championship, Bucharest, Romania

P.C. to Olympic Gold Quest FB page

Freestyle Men U23 - 57 kg - Gold Medal match
Ravi Kumar (IND) l Toshihiro Hasegawa (JPN) 0-6

[SF] Ravi Kumar (IND) bt Jahongirmirza Turobov (UZB) 10-8
[QF] Ravi Kumar (IND) bt Taras Markovych (UKR) 12-4
[R16] Ravi Kumar (IND) bt Razvan Marian Kovacs (ROU) 7-5

Ravi Kumar wins the Silver, the first medal for India in this ongoing World U23 Wrestling Championship ... He lost in the final against superior the Japanese wrestler, Toshihiro Hasegawa ... Before the final, Ravi scored couple of good wins against Uzbek and Romanian wrestlers.

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At 2018 World Wrestling Championships, Budapest, Hungary

Women's Freestyle 57 kg - Bronze Medal match
Pooja Dhanda (IND) bt Grace Bullen (NOR) 10-7

[Repechage R2] Pooja Dhanda (IND) bt Alyona Kolesnik (AZE) 9-8

[QF] Pooja Dhanda (IND) l Rong Ningning (CHN) 3-4
[R16] Pooja Dhanda (IND) bt Odunayo Adekuoroye (NGR) 7-6
[R32] Pooja Dhanda (IND) bt Olga Khoroshavtseva (RUS) 10-4

Women's Freestyle 50 kg - Bronze Medal match
Ritu Phogat (IND) l Oksana Livach (UKR) 5-10

[Repechage R2] Ritu Phogat (IND) bt Alina Vuc (ROU) 8-8

[QF] Ritu Phogat (IND) l Yui Susaki (JPN) 0-11
[R16] Ritu Phogat (IND) bt Nguyễn Thị Xuân (VIE) 10-0

In Women's Freestyle 57 kg, young Pooja Dhanda won a Bronze beating the Norwegian wrestler, Grace Bullen, in a close bout ... Before that, she won the very close bout against Alyona Kolesnik in the repechage round ... Pooja had a tough draw as she defeated Russian and Nigerian wrestlers in first 2 rounds before losing to eventual Gold medalist Chinese wrestler, Rong Ningning, in the quarters.

Ritu Phogat lost a Bronze medal match to the Ukrainian wrestler, Oksana Livach ... Before that in repechage round, she was 2-8 down against Alina Vuc ... Ritu fought back and won next 6 points to win this match ... In the quarters, she lost against an eventual Gold medalist Yui Susaki.

India wins 1 Silver and 1 Bronze medals in this World Wrestling Championships.

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At 2018 World Wrestling Championships, Budapest, Hungary

Women's Freestyle 65 kg - Bronze Medal match
Ritu Malik (IND) l Ayana Gempei (JPN) 3-7

[Repechage R2] Ritu Malik (IND) bt Sofiya Georgieva (BUL) 9-8

[QF] Ritu Malik (IND) l Petra Olli (FIN) 26
[R16] Ritu Malik (IND) bt Ilona Prokopevniuk (UKR) 5-4

In Women's Freestyle 65 kg, Ritu Malik lost a Bronze medal bout against the superior Japanese wrestler, Ayana Gempei ... Ritu lost the quarter-final against the World champion, Petra Olli ... In the repechage, she won the close bout against the Bulgarian wrestler before losing to Gempei..

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At 2018 World Wrestling Championships, Budapest, Hungary

P.C. to Bajrang Punia twitter handle

Men's Freestyle 65 kilograms - Gold Medal match
Bajrang Punia (IND) l Takuto Otoguro (JPN) 9-16

In Men's Freestyle 65 kg, Bajrang Punia lost the final bout against a Japanese wrestler, Otoguro Takuto ... Takuto started the bout aggressively and took a 5-0 lead, which Bajrang reduced to 5-4 ... But from 7-6, Takuto showed his superiority to win a gold ... This is Bajrang's second medal in the World Championships ... The last time he won a Bronze and this time he won a Silver.

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At 2018 World Wrestling Championships, Budapest, Hungary

Men's Freestyle 65 kilograms - Gold Medal match
Bajrang Punia (IND) vs Takuto Otoguro (JPN)

[SF] Bajrang Punia (IND) bt Alejandro Valdés (CUB) 4-3
[QF] Bajrang Punia (IND) bt Tömör-Ochir Tulga (MGL) 5-3
[R16] Bajrang Punia (IND) bt Seung-chul Lee (KOR) 4-0
[R32] Bajrang Punia (IND) bt Roman Asharin (HUN) 9-4

Men's Freestyle 125 kilograms - Bronze Medal match
Sumit Malik (IND) l Nick Gwiazdowski (USA) 2-7

[SF] Sumit Malik (IND) l Deng Zhiwei (CHN) 0-5
[QF] Sumit Malik (IND) bt Yermukambet Inkar (KAZ) 6-1
[R16] Sumit Malik (IND) bt Taiki Yamamoto (JPN) 4-1

In Men's Freestyle 65 kg, Bajrang Punia is in the final ... He is facing a challenge of the Japanese wrestler, Takuto Otoguro ... Before that, he scored an upset win over the Cuban wrestler, Alejandro Valdés, in a close bout ... In Men's Freestyle 125 kg category, Sumit lost the Bronze medal match against an American wrestler ... In the semis, he lost against the Chinese wrestler Deng.

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At 2018 Asian Wrestling Championships, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

In Men's Freestyle, we won two bronze medals ...Bajrang Punia won a bronze in 65kg and Om Prakash Vinod Kumar won it in 70kg ... So till now, India win a Gold, a Silver and six Bronze medals.

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At 2018 Asian Wrestling Championships, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

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Women's freestyle-65 kg - Gold Medal match
Navjot Kaur (IND) bt Miyu Imai (JPN) 9-1

Navjot Kaur became the first Indian woman in the history to win a gold medal at the Asian Championships when she won the 65kg crown with a 9-1 victory in the final over Miyu Imai ... Only six wrestlers were participated, so first all wrestlers played the round-robin ... In that, Miyu defeated Navjot in the 1st bout, 4-4 (last point won by Miyu) but in the final, Navjot played attacking wrestling and didn't give any chance to Miyu.

In 50kg, Vinesh Phogat captured a silver as she lost the final against Chinese wrestler Lei Chun ... Olympic medal winner Sakshi Malik lost in the 1st bout against Chinese girl Luo Xiaojuan after taking 6-0 lead, match ended on 6-all ... Sakshi fought back and won all her next matches to win a bronze in 62kg ... Sangeeta Phogat also won a bronze in 59kg.
In Men's Greco-Roman, Rajender Kumar won a bronze in 55kg and Harpreet Singh won a bronze in 82kg.