Silver-medalist at Tokyo Olympics 2020, Ravi Kumar Dahiya will not be travelling for the Asian Video games 2023 as he was knocked out of the wrestling trials by Maharashtra’s Atish Todkar by 20-8 on the Indira Gandhi Area on Sunday. Olympic and World medalist, Ravi Dahiya crashed out within the first spherical of wrestling choice trials for the acclaimed event. Dahiya began wrestling in his early teenagers and received the silver medal within the 2015 Junior World Wrestling Championships at Salvador de Bahia within the 55 kg freestyle class.
He picked up an harm in 2017 which saved him out of motion for greater than a yr. In his comeback yr, he received the silver medal on the 2018 World U23 Wrestling Championship in Bucharest, India’s solely medal on the competitors, within the 57 kg class. Dahiya remained unbeaten on the 2019 Professional Wrestling League, representing the title-winning workforce, Haryana Hammers.
He was ranked fifth on the 2019 Asian Wrestling Championships in Xi’an, after dropping the bronze medal match.
In his World Championships debut in 2019, Dahiya defeated the European champion Arsen Harutyunyan within the spherical of 16, and the 2017 world champion Yuki Takahashi within the quarterfinal, to earn one of many six out there quota locations for the 2020 Summer season Olympics. He misplaced to defending champion and eventual gold medalist Zaur Uguev within the semifinal spherical.
He managed to take the bronze after defeating Reza Atri of Iran. On the again of his medal win, Dahiya was included within the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports activities’ Goal Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) in October 2019.
He’s additionally a bronze medallist within the 2019 World Wrestling Championships and a three-time Asian champion.
Dahiya received gold on the 2020 Asian Wrestling Championships in New Delhi and the 2021 Asian Wrestling Championships in Almaty.
Within the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Video games, he received the gold medal within the males’s 57kg freestyle wrestling class in Birmingham, England.
On the 2022 Yasar Dogu Match, he received the gold medal after defeating Uzbek Gulomjon Abdullaev 11–10 within the ultimate. On the 2022 World Wrestling Championships, he misplaced to Uzbekistan’s Gulomjon Abdullaev within the pre-quarterfinals.
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