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Indian wrestlers Akash Dahiya and Anirudh Kumar stored themselves in competition for bronze medals on the Asian Championships however three of their team-mates exited the event after shedding at completely different phases of their respective classes at Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on Friday. Competing within the non-Olympic 61kg class, Akash started with a detailed 10-8 win over Sardor Ruzimov from Uzbekistan and adopted it up with a snug 7-3 victory over Korea’s Sanghyeon Son within the quarterfinal. Nevertheless, Kazakhstan’s Assyl Aitakyn proved to be too robust for the Indian within the semifinal and couldn’t rating a single level, shedding his bout by technical superiority.
He’ll now battle it out with Mongolia’s Enkhbold Enkhbat.
Yash Tushir (74kg) went out of competition after shedding his repechage spherical by technical superiority to Syrbaz Talgat from Kazakhstan.
Additionally bowing out early was Sandeep Singh Maan (86kg), who misplaced his qualification bout 0-5 to Japan’s Tatsuya Shirai.
Vinay (92kg) additionally fizzled out within the 92kg qualification spherical, shedding his bout by fall to veteran Kazakhstan wrestler Adilet Davlumbayev.
In 125kg, Anirudh Kumar started with a 3-0 win over Pakistan’s Zaman Anwar however was outplayed by Iran’s Amir Hossein Abbas Zare within the quarterfinal, shedding by technical superiority.
For the reason that Iranian reached the ultimate, it stored the door open for Anirudh and now he’ll battle for bronze towards Bahrain’s Shamil Magomed A Sharipov.
India had received three medals on Thursday by Udit (57kg, silver), Abhimanyou (70kg, bronze) and Vicky (97kg, bronze).
The boys’s free-style competitors will conclude as we speak and the ladies’s bouts will start on Saturday.
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