Wrestling Junior World C’ships: Yash, Pruthivraj, Anirudh in bronze bout; Simran, Biapasha reach SF

Indian wrestler Simran moved into the women’s 50kg semifinals with dominant wins while Bipasha also made it to the last-four stage in the 76g category at the junior world championships in Ufa, Russia on on Wednesday.

Showing much promise for future, Simran first beat Romania’s Georgiana Lavinia Antuca by technical superiority without conceding a point and then pulled off a victory by fall in the high-scoring quarterfinal against Gultakin Shirinova of Azerbaijan. The quarterfinal was fast with moves and counter moves across the two periods but eventually Simran got hold of Shirinova for a pin when she was leading 18-8.

Bipasha was slow off the blocks but managed a 6-3 win over Kazakhstan’s Dilnaz Mulkinova.

However, Sito (55kg), Kusum (59kg) and Arju (68kg) lost their respective quarterfinals.

In the men’s free style competition, Yash (74kg) scored a confident 9-2 win over Armen Musikyan from Armenia to advance to the bronze play-off.

Also progressing to the bronze medal rounds were Pruthivraj Babasaheb Patil (92kg) and Anirudh (125kg), who defeated Uzbekistan’s Mukhammadrasul Rakhimov and Hungary’s Csaba Ubornyak, respectively.

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