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today in Vehbi Emre tournament in Turkey 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4QmxSVoKsd/

 

this is the semifinal between  Mokhtari (blue) and  Saricicek (red) . both guys obviously got disqualified after this and their QF losers wrestled instead for a place in the final. Saricicek had a huge huge surprise before this and beat the World Champion Makhmudov.

 

it was also our internal trials for the Olympics (first for the OQT) Mokhtari beat his main local opponent in the QF but after his disqualification the other guy took his chance and won the gold, which means he is going to the Asian OQT. You always benefit from someone else's dumb mistake  

Edited March 9 by MHSN

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Russian national freestyle Championship finished tonight, this tournament always serves as their trials. as long as Russia concerns this team goes to the Olympics and World Champs (for non-Olympic weights) but of course it's not only up to them

 

57: Akhmad Idrisov

61: Zavur Uguev

65: Shamil Mamedov

70: Inalbek Sheriev

74: Anzor Zakuev

79: Magomed Magomaev

86: Ibragim Kadiev

92: Alan Bagaev

97: Abdulrashid Sadulaev

125: Abdulla Kurbanov

 

Zaurbek Sidakov (74) and Artur Naifonov (86) didn't wrestle here, apparently a bit injured, they will face the winner at some point (from what I heard in Hungary ranking series) same goes to Zavur Uguev, he wrestled at 61 to avoid cutting weight, but he is still a 57kg. 

 

The Great Sadulaev almost got pinned in the final against Alikhan Zhabrailov, some may say he did get pinned (that was dubious to me) but pulled himself together and won the match 8-4. 

65kg final was also amazing between Mamedov and 61kg World Champion Abbasgazhi Magomedov which ended up 8-7 in Mamedov's favor.