Bajrang Punia wins bronze in Almaty, Aman clinches maiden world gold at senior level

Bajrang Punia purchased his act collectively to narrate a bronze medal after ultra-defensive ways resulted in his opening-spherical defeat at the same time as Aman claimed his first gold medal at the senior level with a commanding demonstrate in the 57kg rivals at the Bolat Turlykhanov Cup, right here Sunday.

Bajrang, the Tokyo Video games bronze winner, struggled in his opening bout in opposition to Uzbekistan’s Abbos Rakhmonov, dropping 3-5 nonetheless competed critically greater in the bronze-play off the place he played smartly to rating on counter-assaults in opposition to Kazkahstan’s Rifat Saibotalov, a success 7-0.

Bajrang foiled a exact leg assault from Saibotalov and then scored two elements on counter assault after his rival went for his exact leg.

The 28-one year-used transformed a left-leg assault into elements and foiled any other mettlesome effort from the house-favourite.

Bajrang used to be immediate alongside with his movements that used to be key in his mixture of defence and assault in the the biggest bout.

Earlier, the overtly defensive ways in which Bajrang has been adopting, of stupid, continued in opposition to Rakhmonov and paid the fee.

Bajrang purchased the first two elements when his rival used to be cautioned twice for inappropriate play. He now not often made a jog nonetheless the Uzbekistan wrestler transformed a left-leg assault into a steal-down jog for 2 elements to level the rating.

The eminent wrestler later purchased but any other point on the passivity of Rakhmonov and used to be leading nonetheless dropped guard when handiest six seconds had been left in the bout.

It gave the affect Bajrang took it straightforward, pondering the referee has whistled to stop the motion nonetheless Rakhmonov grabbed the chance to birth a leg assault and indirectly purchased decisive two elements.

Later Rakhmonov reached final, giving opportunity to fight for bronze.

Within the 57kg, Aman, who trains at Chhatrasal stadium with Tokyo Olympics silver medallist Ravi Dahiya, used to be very impressive.

He started with a 15-12 snatch over Meirambek Kartbay in the excessive-scoring opening bout and followed that with a technical superiority snatch over Abdymalik Karachov from Kyrgyzstan.

In his final bout, he edged out Kazakhstan’s Merey Bazarbayev 10-9 to shield unbeaten in the 5-wrestler class to narrate gold.

It’s miles Aman’s third medal this season, having won a silver at Dan Kolov and a bronze at Yasar Dogu.

Meanwhile, Vishal Kaliramana (70kg) and Naveen (74kg) uncared for out podium finishes after dropping bronze medal rounds.

Gourav Baliyan (79kg) couldn’t build the medal spherical whereas Deepak Punia forfeited all his bouts due to distress in 92kg class, the place Viky lost both his bouts.

India thus signed off with 12 medals from the Score Sequence event with the females’s wrestlers claiming eight of them, alongside with give gold. 

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