Asian Wrestling Championship: India register their best-ever performance

The hosts won five gold medals in the tournament.

The Indian wrestling contingent wrapped up their Asian Wrestling Championship 2020 campaign with twenty medals. It is their best-ever performance in the tournament.

India won one Gold and four Bronze medals in the Greco Roman category; three Gold, two Silver and three Bronze in the Women Wrestling category; along with one Gold, four Silver and two Bronze in the Men’s Freestyle category.

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In the sixth and final day of the premier continental championship, India’s lone Gold medal bout saw Jitender (74Kg)  settle for a Silver going down 3-1 to Kaisanov Daniyar of Kazakhstan. The fight went down to the wire as both wrestlers tried to win the medal. 

2018 Commonwealth Games Gold medalist and 2019 Asian and World Bronze medalist, Rahul Aware (61Kg) held strong in a closely fought contest with his Iranian opponent Dastan Majid Almas defeating the latter 5-2 and walk away with the first  Bronze medal of the day for India.

Speaking after his bout Rahul said,” I had aimed for a Gold, but I am a bit disappointed after winning a Bronze medal”.

India’s second Bronze medal came when Deepak Punia (86Kg) defeated AL Obaidi Issa Abdulsalam Abdulwahhab of Iraq 10-0 through technical superiority.  

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Indian Medals in Asian Wrestling Championships 2020:

Greco-Roman-

55Kg- Bronze- Arjun HALAKURKI (IND) df. Donghyeok WON (KOR) 7-4

67Kg- Bronze- Ashu ASHU (IND) df. Abdwlkarim Mohammad ALHASAN (SYR) 8-1

72Kg- Bronze- Aditya KUNDU (IND) df. Nao KUSAKA (JPN) 8-0

87 Kg- Gold- Kumar SUNIL (IND) df. Azat SALIDINOV (KGZ) 5-0

97Kg- Bronze- Hardeep (IND) df. Beksultan Makhamadzhanovich MAKHMUDOV (KGZ) 3-1

Freestyle-

57Kg- Gold- Kumar RAVI (IND) df. Hikmatullo VOHIDOV (TJK) 10-0

61Kg- Bronze-  Rahul Balasaheb AWARE (IND) df. Majid Almas DASTAN (IRI) 5-2

65Kg- Silver- Takuto OTOGURO (JPN) df. BAJRANG (IND) 10-2

74Kg- Silver- Daniyar KAISANOV (KAZ) df. JITENDER (IND) 3-1

79Kg- Silver-  Arsalan BUDAZHAPOV (KGZ) df. Baliyan GOURAV (IND) 7-5

86Kg- Bronze- Deepak PUNIA (IND) df. Issa Abdulsalam Abdulwahhab AL OBAIDI (IRQ) 10-0

97Kg- Silver- Mojtaba Mohammadshafie GOLEIJ (IRI) df. Satywart KADIAN (IND) 10-0

Women’s Wrestling-

50Kg- Silver- Miho IGARASHI (JPN) df. Devi NIRMALA (IND) 3-2

53Kg- Bronze- VINESH (IND) df. Thi Ly KIEU (VIE) 10-0

55Kg- Gold- PINKI (IND) df. Dulguun BOLORMAA (MGL) 2-1

57Kg- Bronze- Anshu ANSHU (IND) df. Sevara ESHMURATOVA (UZB) 4-1

59Kg- Gold- Sarita SARITA (IND) df. Battsetseg ALTANTSETSEG (MGL) 3-2

65Kg- Silver-  Naomi RUIKE (JPN) df. Sakshi MALIK (IND) 2-0

68Kg- Gold- Divya KAKRAN (IND) df. Naruha MATSUYUKI (JPN) 6-4

72Kg- Bronze- Preet Kaur GURSHARAN (IND) df. Tsevegmed ENKHBAYAR (MGL) 5-2