Wrestling UWW Asian Championships 2021

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We'll win 4 golds tomorrow, 5th is injured wonder if that would be enough for team title

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India lost the women's team title to Mongolia by just 5 points, it came down to the 65kg final between MGL and IND and the Olympic bronze medalist Sakshi Malik got pinned early in the match to gift the title to Mongolia.

 

women's FS medal table

 

4-1-2

2-4-1

2-1-3

2-1-1

0-2-1

0-1-0

0-0-2

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5 points tooo close. We lost the title because 

 

1.Pinki in 55kg tested positive. Didn't participate. Only 4 wrestlers, we would have got 20 points at least(silver) 

 

2.Sonam 62kg injured didn't participate today. By her form she'd have won at least silver (20 points) 

 

3.Our 50kg, 68kg, 76kg aren't the best. Hope they are not sent to Sofia. Nirmala Devi, Divya and Kiran must be the 3 there and we can get at least 2 quotas. 

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Finalists in first day of freestyle:

 

57: Ravi vs Sarlak

65: Bajrang vs Otoguro

70: Khasanov vs Talgat

79: Gong vs Savadkouhi

97: Yergali vs Shabani

 

65kg final between old rivals will be match of the competition.

 

for Iran, our 70kg guy was extremely disappointing Ghiasi at 65kg also got manhandled by Otoguro in the semifinal. he is a very poor wrestler and I wasn't expecting anything more from him. the other 3 made it to the final. I believe Savadkouhi and Shabani will win the gold. Sarlak will be underdog against the world bronze medalist.

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medal table in men's freestyle after the first day

 

1-2-1

1-1-3

1-1-0

1-0-2

1-0-1

0-1-1

0-0-2

 

today we had wrestlers from in the bronze medal match, unfortunately all of them lost

 

and as for Iran, it was a terrible terrible day, very disappointing. our 57kg and 65kg wrestlers lost to world class wrestlers, that was expected. but Hosseini (70) and Savadkouhi (79) lost to wrestlers much weaker than themselves. we brought our best wrestlers in non-Olympic weights (unlike most of the Olympic weights) and they were terrible here.

 

Shaabani dominated the competition to win the gold, good for him. I believe he and Mohammadian are almost in the same level. it will be hard to pick one of them for the Olympics but Mohammadian has the upper hand now.

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Finalists in second day of freestyle:

 

61: Turobov vs Askarov

74: Kaipanov vs Hosseinkhani

86: Yazdani vs Deepak

92: Tsogtgerel vs Ghasempour

125: Lazarev vs Boltin

 

it was a very disappointing tournament for our freestyle team. Majid Dastan at 61kg was very poor and Taheri at 125kg lost by pin to someone very weak. he was leading 6-0 and then bang got pinned. we will have 3 in the final but Yazdani and Ghasempour winning the gold was a sure thing even before the tournament.

 

Yazdani is trying a different style here, probably preparing himself to wrestle more than just 1-2 minutes (he usually finishes his matches that fast) I just hope Deepak Punia doesn't chicken out like he had in 2019 worlds. he most probably will lose 10-0 but Yazdani needs more time on the mat. this is his first international tournament in past 2 years! (exactly since the day he beat Deepak by walkover in the worlds final)

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men's freestyle medal table

 

3-3-2

3-2-0

1-2-4

1-1-2

1-0-3

1-0-3

0-1-3

0-1-2

0-0-1

 

Iran won the team title, but despite winning more gold medals, Kazakhstan lost the 2nd place to India.

 

it was a disappointing tournament for our freestyle team. Iran won only 3 golds which is NOT a good results in 10 weights. but those 3 guys teched all of their opponents and were quite dominant. our 125kg lost by just an accident and he could tech everybody too. we were expecting at least 4 gold medals from these 4 guys but we didn't even achieve that

 

Yazdani despite beating everybody (including world silver medalist Deepak Punia) 10-0 tried a new style. not wasting his whole energy in first 2 minutes. he was calm and just collected points without trying too much. Ghasempour also dominated 92kg, what a pity he is in the same weight as Yazdani and had to try a non-Olympic weight. he is just too good to waste his talent behind Yazdani

 

out of 20 wrestlers we sent here (Freestyle and Greco) only Yazdani will wrestle in Tokyo for sure. Shabani (97kg gold medalist) also has a chance but there will be trials between him and Mohammadian. for the others, they had to win the gold and also be dominant to stand a chance. I assume they missed it, except 125kg guy, they will probably give him another chance.