Wrestling UWW World Championships 2019

[heywoodu 15,141]

Just now, MHSN said:

 

Yes 14:00 CET.

Great, let's see if I can manage to watch live this time so I can bombard the thread with n00b questions again

[Benolympique 2,398]

what are the chances of the French struggling to win quotas for Tokyo? Thank you for your answers

Edited September 14, 2019 by Benolympique

[MHSN 3,619]

I'm starting to think Abdevali is a masochist, he just loves to lose dramatically and then protest like hell ! he had everything under control. Huyseynov was dead tired and then bang. this is happening every year for him. he will most probably win the bronze because the Kazakh guy got injured and the other guys in repechage are too weak. the first day was disappointing for Iran, only 1 wrestler for the bronze and another one in the repechage. I'm afraid we are not going to win any gold medal in Greco. none of the remaining guys are capable of that (at least that's my prediction and I hope I'm wrong of course)

 

Azizli losing to the Kazakh guy was the biggest surprise of the evening session, he was counting on the refs to get the first point but when they awarded the first caution to the Kazakh guy (unfortunately that was an Iranian referee) that ruined his whole plan. he gave up some childish throws. and interestingly Mnatsakanian couldn't make it to the final even with that super draw.

[bestmen 2,818]

i'm not following the event but looks like   has repechage in 55 kg , right ? any chance for Bronze ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 14, 2019 by bestmen

[Col_Frost 179]

28 minut temu, bestmen napisał:

i'm not following the event but looks like   has repechage in 55 kg , right ? any chance for Bronze ?

You're correct. He had to defeat  Azizli who is defending title here, also bronze medalist from this year European Championships.

[MHSN 3,619]

draw looks unbelievably unfair for all 3 Olympic weights tomorrow, the main problem is UWW stupid format, for example if we have 40 wrestlers in the list, there will be 8 wrestlers in each quarter draw, except the last one with 16 !!! obviously the last one is supposed to be much tougher.

 

since all semifinalists will win the quota, I will break into each quarterdraw

 

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1) Artem Surkov couldn't even dream about such easy draw, from the rest I only recognize Mete Nemes and even Nemes is no match for Surkov. I think Surkov will win this quarter and the semifinal. therfore one of those guys will climb through repechage to the bronze medal match and we will have a lucky Olympian from this part. I think Nemes is much better than the rest.

2) the second part isn't any better. but at least there will be some kind of competition, I think the Kazakh guy Shermakhambet who will have some supports from the refs will be the favorite. I think you never can underestimate Japanese wrestlers in lighter weights.

3) obviously this part is harder than the top half combined (even though still nothing compared to the last quarter) Sahakyan from Poland is the clear favorite. I think he won't have much problems entering the quarterfinal. there is some good wrestlers here to challenge him, Bolkvadze, Ismailov or Aslanyan.

4) just wow, you can see almost everybody here. Stabler, the Olympic champion Borrero, Chunayev, Euro Champion Yuksel, 2018 Euro Champ Mihut, twice world champion Ryu and few other good wrestlers like Islamov. I feel sorry for our youngster Tab, no chance for him here. it's hard to pick someone but if Stabler makes the weight properly to me he is the favorite.

 

my picks for Olympic quotas:

 

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1) looks very easy for Beleniuk, he is the gold medal favorite with any draw but since I expect him to make it to the final, one of the other guys from this quarter will win the quota !! I think there is a chance for all other 7 wrestlers, but I think it will be between Belarus or Croatia

2) we have 8 good or very good wrestlers in this quarter, much harder than the first one, I can give almost equal chances to 5 of them, Kudla, Abbasov, Abdusalam, the Georgian guy and our Taheri. only one of these guys will make it to the Olympics because of the draw (unless the winner surprises Beleniuk in the semifinal) I give more chance to Abbasov and Kudla. somehow Kudla always gets help from the refs.

3) Viktor Lorincz is probably very happy now with his Olympic quota almost secured. this is a VERY easy draw for him. maybe his second round match KGZ/LTU will be a bit hard. just that one. it will be funny if Lorincz makes it to the final. one of these guys will win a quota through repechage !

4) this one is harder, we have Basar, Komarov, Assakalov, Shahinyan, Hietaniemi and couple more. I think Russia struggles more in this weight to win the quota.

 

my picks for Olympic quotas:

 

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1) Evloev didn't need an easy draw but he got one. and again one of the other guys will luckily win a quota.

2) this one is even easier than Evloev !! I think this is for Kajaia unless he wrestles very poor. the top half is much much easier . both quarters look like a joke to me.

3) I think there are 7 wrestlers with good chance here, even that Honduras wrestler isn't that bad. I had to think a lot to find a pick here. this is wide open

4) my reaction when I saw our wrestler in this quarter "are you kidding me ? " out of 3 wrestlers why none of ours got something easier. all 3 of them are in the toughest quarter !! (Taheri at 87 is in the 2nd toughest) obviously with baby giant Aleksanyan, he is the clear favorite for the quota. I had a hard time to pick the other guy. because Aleksanyan most probably will go to the final.

 

my picks for Olympic quotas:

 

and I have to admit some of picks were really random. I see I give 3 to Turkey but I'm sure they are not going to win all 3 possible quotas.

[Federer91 2,796]

If our wrestlers can't win a quota, then it better be more europeans, as to free spots for the next qualification tournaments.

[phelps 7,677]

Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling, Day #1 recap

 

 

-55kg
Gold Medal match: Nugzari Tsurtsumia vs Khorlan Zhakansha
Bronze Medal match #1: Eldaniz Azizli vs Abdelkarim Fergat / Max Emiliano Nowry
Bronze Medal match #2: Shota Ogawa vs Cao Liguo / Vitalii Kabaloev

-63kg
Gold Medal match: Shinobu Ota vs Stepan Maryanyan
Bronze Medal match #1: Slavik Galstyan vs Meysam Dalkhani / Jung Jin Woong
Bronze Medal match #2: Almat Kebispayev vs Maksim Nehoda / Tynar Sharshenbekov

-72kg
Gold Medal match: Abuiazid Mantsigov vs Aram Vardanyan
Bronze Medal match #1: Aik Mnatsakanian vs Felix Widmayer / Ruslan Ahamalyieu / Zhang Hujun
Bronze Medal match #2: Balint Korpasi vs Lee Ji Yeon / Malkhas Amoyan

-82kg
Gold Medal match: Lasha Gobadze vs Rafig Huseynov
Bronze Medal match #1: Nurbek Khashimbekov vs John Walter Stefanowicz / Qian Haitao
Bronze Medal match #2: Saeid Abdevali vs Maxat Yerezhepov / Mihail Bradu / Iurii Shkriuba

[DaniSRB 899]

at what time 2nd day starts?

[phelps 7,677]

Just now, DaniSRB said:

at what time 2nd day starts?

 

7 a.m. CET preliminary rounds...

2 p.m. CET the semifinals...

3 p.m. CET the finals...