World Wrestling C’ships: Daton Fix flattens Ravinder Dahiya in quarter-final
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Daton Duain Fix of the USA flattened Ravinder Dahiya of India by 10-0 within the males’s freestyle 61-kg class quarterfinals of the World Wrestling Championships which started at Nye Jordal Amfi, Oslo in Norway on Saturday.
The Indian, a silver medallist on the Budapest 2019 World U-23 Championship, must anticipate a repechage probability. After dropping the last-eight stage bout by VSU (victory by technical superiority), Ravinder, 25, must anticipate the semifinal bout between Arsen Harutyunyan of Armenia and Fix.
In the bout of eight, Ravinder shocked favorite and world champion Beka Lomtadze of Georgia 6-2 by VPO1 (winner with no technical superiority however the loser scores no less than 1 level).
In the qualification spherical, the Haryana grappler defeated Sunggwon Kim of Korea 13 – 2.
Fix started with an 11-0 win over Tokyo Olympian Georgi Vangelov of Bulgaria within the qualification and within the spherical of eight he scored an emphatic 10-0 win over Arman Norik Eloyan of France.
Other Indians Sandeep Singh Mann in 86kg class narrowly misplaced to Gwanuk Kim of Korea 5 – 4, Anirudh Kumar in 125kg was overwhelmed by Youssif Mohamed Badea Hemida of Egypt 9 – 3 and in 74kg Russian Timur Bizhoev ousted Yash 7-0 of their qualification rounds.
Remaining Indians, Pankaj (57kg) will meet Levan Metreveli Vartanov of Spain, Rohit (65kg) takes on Divoshan Charles Fernando of Sri Lanka, Sushil (70kg) clashes with Zurabi Iakobishvili of Georgia, in 79kg class Baliyan Gourav faces Bat Erdene Byambasuren of Mongolia and Satywart Kadian (97kg) will sq. off with Minwon Seo of Korea.kj
Meanwhile, Pruthviraj Babasaheb Patil received a bye and can meet Osman Nurmagomedov of Azerbaijan within the 92kg class.
Heavyweights like Tokyo Olympic silver medallist Ravi Dahiya and bronze medallist Bajrang Punia, ladies’s wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Deepak Punia skipped the meet as a result of numerous causes together with accidents.
