Oslo (Norway): Indian wrestler Pinki Almost pinned his German opponent nina hemmer Even as the country’s men’s freestyle team thrashed Rohit in the bronze medal play-off on Monday, before going down 6-8 in the 55kg semi-final to crash out of the historic final of the World Championships. Received a vacancy.
In a fast-paced action-packed semifinal, Pinky trailed 0-4 when Hemmer effected a take-down move followed by a quick gut wrench.
Pinky kept looking for her move and found one in a right footed attack, pushing the German’s back to the mat for two points.
He held Hemmer in a tight grip and held him in that position for over a minute but the referees were not convinced to give a ‘fall’ result.
Breathtaking, Pinky leveled the score and then took a 6-4 lead with successive take-downs, but Hemmer again refused to throw in the towel and pulled two more two-pointers to be the winner. .
No Indian female wrestler has ever played in a World Championship final.
Geeta Phogat (2012), Babita Phogat (2012), Pooja Dhanda (2018) and Vinesh Phogat (2019) are the only four Indian women wrestlers to win bronze medals at the World Championships.
If Pinky wins a bronze medal on Tuesday, she can be included in this list.
In her previous encounters, Pinky was confident of a 5–0 victory over Korea’s Kim Soyon in the qualification round and later defeated Ayesha Ulishan of Kazakhstan to reach the semi-finals.
Meanwhile, Ravinder played his heart out in the men’s freestyle 65kg bronze play-off but lost to Tulga Tumur Ochir of Mongolia.
In the absence of the big guns like Bajrang Punia, Ravi Dahiya and Deepak Punia, only Rohit and Ravinder (61kg) could make it to the medal rounds, while the others were out early.
Earlier in the day, Rohit pulled off a smart four-pointer en route to a technical superiority win over Turkey’s Selahtin Kiliksalyan to progress to the bronze medal match.
Rohit took the mat for his repechage round and initially struggled to find an offensive move as he was largely busy defending and trailing 1-2.
However, at the end of the first period, he used a double leg attack and converted it into a pointer to take a 5-2 lead. His style changed dramatically in the second period as he stepped up to take the winning lead.
However, Satyawart Kadian (97kg) and sushila (70kg) lost to Korea’s Minwon Seo and Georgia’s Zurabi Ikobishvili in the qualification rounds, respectively.
Kadian scored all six of his points by pushing his opponent, while Seo also had six, but the Korean player was declared the winner on the criteria of scoring a big point. He had two 2-pointers.
Sushil scored the only point in his 1-5 loss on the passivity of the strong-looking Iqabishvili, who slowly took control of the bout with his agility and strength.
In the women’s 62kg category, Sangeeta Phogat made a confident start with a 5-2 win over Germany’s Luisa Niemesh, but lost to Brazil’s Lais Nunes de Oliveira 4-6 in the pre-quarterfinals.
Sangeeta, who is returning to competitive Wrestling Three years after suffering a knee problem, she made some spectacular double-leg attacks in both of her matches, but lost points on a counter attack and also ran out of steam against Brazil.
In a fast-paced action-packed semifinal, Pinky trailed 0-4 when Hemmer effected a take-down move followed by a quick gut wrench.
Pinky kept looking for her move and found one in a right footed attack, pushing the German’s back to the mat for two points.
He held Hemmer in a tight grip and held him in that position for over a minute but the referees were not convinced to give a ‘fall’ result.
Breathtaking, Pinky leveled the score and then took a 6-4 lead with successive take-downs, but Hemmer again refused to throw in the towel and pulled two more two-pointers to be the winner. .
No Indian female wrestler has ever played in a World Championship final.
Geeta Phogat (2012), Babita Phogat (2012), Pooja Dhanda (2018) and Vinesh Phogat (2019) are the only four Indian women wrestlers to win bronze medals at the World Championships.
If Pinky wins a bronze medal on Tuesday, she can be included in this list.
In her previous encounters, Pinky was confident of a 5–0 victory over Korea’s Kim Soyon in the qualification round and later defeated Ayesha Ulishan of Kazakhstan to reach the semi-finals.
Meanwhile, Ravinder played his heart out in the men’s freestyle 65kg bronze play-off but lost to Tulga Tumur Ochir of Mongolia.
In the absence of the big guns like Bajrang Punia, Ravi Dahiya and Deepak Punia, only Rohit and Ravinder (61kg) could make it to the medal rounds, while the others were out early.
Earlier in the day, Rohit pulled off a smart four-pointer en route to a technical superiority win over Turkey’s Selahtin Kiliksalyan to progress to the bronze medal match.
Rohit took the mat for his repechage round and initially struggled to find an offensive move as he was largely busy defending and trailing 1-2.
However, at the end of the first period, he used a double leg attack and converted it into a pointer to take a 5-2 lead. His style changed dramatically in the second period as he stepped up to take the winning lead.
However, Satyawart Kadian (97kg) and sushila (70kg) lost to Korea’s Minwon Seo and Georgia’s Zurabi Ikobishvili in the qualification rounds, respectively.
Kadian scored all six of his points by pushing his opponent, while Seo also had six, but the Korean player was declared the winner on the criteria of scoring a big point. He had two 2-pointers.
Sushil scored the only point in his 1-5 loss on the passivity of the strong-looking Iqabishvili, who slowly took control of the bout with his agility and strength.
In the women’s 62kg category, Sangeeta Phogat made a confident start with a 5-2 win over Germany’s Luisa Niemesh, but lost to Brazil’s Lais Nunes de Oliveira 4-6 in the pre-quarterfinals.
Sangeeta, who is returning to competitive Wrestling Three years after suffering a knee problem, she made some spectacular double-leg attacks in both of her matches, but lost points on a counter attack and also ran out of steam against Brazil.
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