Wrestling UWW Individual World Cup 2020

[ChandlerMne 1,038]

19 minutes ago, DaniSRB said:

It was known prior to this event that he is retiring

Mate is his successor, younger than him, so i am not so dissapointed. He will always be remembered because of Rio. Enough from him.

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3 minutes ago, ChandlerMne said:

Somehow i feared that this option is plausible. 

Which would be pitty. Vlasov is dominant, but in my opinion, Nemes deserves to be in Tokyo. Having them fight before final would be disastreous. 

they are both in top 16 of the world obviously and technically deserve to qualify but well wrestling (and sport in general) is not always about what do you deserve.

 

there is a seeding system but that's not working properly and both Vlasov and Nemes will be unseeded. and they are not the only favorites in the competition. the German guy who almost beat Vlasov is good, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Turkey, Belarus, Ukraine they are all good enough to upset one of those two guys.

 

but there will be one last chance in Bulgaria too. Nemes and Vlasov have to finish in top 2 in one of these tournaments. (EQT in HUN or last WQT in BUL) same goes to all wrestlers not qualified yet including the Iranians ! but our job is a BIT easier because the Asian qualifier is not as hard as the European one. still much much harder than other continents.

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3 hours ago, MHSN said:

only top 2. that's why the draw matters a LOT. you can be the 2nd best guy in the competition and still face the best guy before the final and fail to qualify.

Always felt it would be a way better system to have a double elimination system for those tournaments.

[MHSN 3,625]

Evloev beat the great Artur 5-1, no technical point it was all cautions. Artur somehow flee the mat on parterre and I think he deserved the caution. he was very angry at the end. I'm not sure if he comes back to wrestle for bronze tomorrow. (assuming Evloev will go to the final)

 

I was expecting more from two of best Greco wrestlers in the world but the thing is, scoring is really hard in high level matches in Greco-Roman specially in heavier weights.

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12 hours ago, NearPup said:

Always felt it would be a way better system to have a double elimination system for those tournaments.

Agree

in Iran we always use double elimination format for most of our local wrestling tournaments (specially for the trials) but it also has its own problems. sometimes we have 3 guys left after beating each other ! and in this case the winner will be decided by minor details, I think nobody wants that.

 

there is no perfect system but if they want to use this direct elimination format, they have to improve their seeding system. Judo and Taekwondo managed to have a decent ranking system but for wrestling their ranking is more like a joke. still better than nothing though

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Today semifinals

 

60kg: Uyar vs Sharshenbekov / Maryanyan vs Fris

63kg: Torba vs Djebbari / Lokyaev vs Sulaimanov

82kg: Alirzaev vs Bradu / Schwarz vs Aydin

97kg: Omarov vs Szoke / Saravi vs Evloev

87kg: Yildrim vs Kandelaki / Semenov vs Ovasapyan

 

I think Russia is capable of winning all 5 gold medals in these weights. they are all huge favorites . it's highly possible for Russia to finish the GR competition with 9 gold medals!

 

glad to see Saravi in the SF, this will be great opportunity for him to face the world champion but his QF match vs Kakhelashvili could go either way, he was lucky that the Italian received the 3rd caution. they both failed to score and the refs HAD to pick one as winner, this time he was lucky but we usually lose matches like this. there is nothing to be proud of in these kind of wins . this is why I hate guys like Nabi or Kudla.  but I'm glad he was able to stand against such a strong guy like Nikoloz (I consider him one of the favorites for the OG medal)

 

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Maskevich   

 

 

Tomorrow's Finals

 

60kg:  Sharshenbekov vs  Maryanyan

63kg:  Torba vs  Lokyaev

82kg:  Alirzaev vs  Aydin

97kg:  Szoke vs  Evloev

130kg:  Yildrim vs  Semenov

 

 

Today's Medallists

 

55kg

Gold:  Emin Sefershaev

Silver:  Serif Kilic

Bronze:  Eldaniz Azizli &  Abdelkarim Fergat

 

67kg

Gold:  Nazir Abdullaev

Silver:  Islambek Dadov

Bronze:  Slavik Galstyan &  Roman Pacukowski

 

72kg

Gold:  Balint Korpasi

Silver:  Malkhas Amoyan

Bronze:  Cengiz Arslan &  Ruslan Tsarev

 

77kg

Gold:  Roman Vlasov

Silver:  Zoltan Levai

Bronze:  Viktor Nemes &  Alexandrin Gutu

 

87kg

Gold:  Kiryl Maskevich

Silver:  Davit Chakvetadze

Bronze:  Semen Novikov &  Zurabi Datunashvili

 

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I think we should stop complaining about the refs, what happens to Armenian wrestlers is much much worse. they got robbed a gold and a bronze today. and this is not even a very important event

 

Maskevich made my day by destroying the Olympic champion.

 

as for the Iranian wrestlers, Saravi had a good and close fight with the World Champion, he lost because of that 2points caution nobody knew where it came from! and Nouri lost the bronze medal match to his own mistakes, he did the same mistake 6 times! that's unbelievable.

 

Vlasov still has it. he is nothing special in the standing position but man he can throw anybody. his throws are fantastic. 

I expect Russia to win all 5 golds tomorrow, none of them are facing a huge challenge.

 

one of our freestyle guys is Coronavirus infected and I assume the other guy will test positive soon. so our small team is already down to 3 (and probably 2)

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Today's Women's Wrestling Semifinals

 

50kg
 Liliia Malanchuk vs  Lisa Ersel
 Ekaterina Poleshchuk vs  Miglena Selishka

 

53kg
 Zalina Sidakova vs  Maria Prevolaraki
 Roksana Marta Zasina vs  Nina Hemmer

 

55kg
 Katarzyna Krawczyk vs  Annika Wendle
 Iryna Kurachkina vs  Pinki

 

62kg
 Anastasija Grigorjeva vs  Ilona Prokopevniuk
 Liubov Ovcharova vs  Aisuluu Tynybekova

 

72kg
 Zsuzsanna Molnar vs  Yuliana Yaneva
 Alla Belinska vs  Buse Tosun

 

 

@hckosice   

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Zsuzsanna Molnar that does not sound really slovak to be honest. Is she former Hungarian ?

 

Have no clue about this tournament, are Salkazanov and Gulaev competing ?