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Final results from the championship.   
For India this is huge result
 
 in the last 20 odd years that I have following India's performance in world championships .... This is the first time we have won a major world championship in an Olympic sport so definately a big big day for India   
🎉🎉🎉🎉💥💥🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1  India* 4 0 0 4 2  China 3 1 3 7 3  Russia 1 1 1 3 4  Italy 1 1 0 2 5  Brazil 1 0 1 2  Morocco 1 0 1 2 7  Chinese Taipei 1 0 0 1 8  Kazakhstan 0 2 4 6 9  Colombia 0 2 2 4 10  Australia 0 2 1 3 11  Mongolia 0 1 1 2  Thailand 0 1 1 2 13  Vietnam 0 1 0 1 14  France 0 0 3 3 15  Azerbaijan 0 0 1 1  Belarus 0 0 1 1  Bulgaria 0 0 1 1  Japan 0 0 1 1  South Korea 0 0 1 1  Uzbekistan 0 0 1 1 Totals (20 entries) 12 12 24 48  
 
 

Of note: Ivy is only 12 years old! And the youngest medalist at an international weightlifting competition 

That is a real pity she is one of my fav boxers with such a distinctive style

Nitu (-48kg);  Wu Yu (-52kg);  Irma Testa (-57kg*);  Yang Chengyu (-63kg);  Anastasiia Demurchian (-70kg) and  Saweety (-81kg) are Today's World Champions.
 
*Olympic Weight Class

The finalists for the world championships are from the following countries 
 
CHN -4 
IND - 4 
COL -2
RUS -2 
ITA - 2 
AUS -2 
KAZ -2 
ALG -1 
BRA -1
VIE -1 
MGL -1 
MOR -1 
TAI -1 
 
For India it is a very rare chance to top a world championship of an OLY sport ... . 

While saying they, and I quote, "are saddened to see she has made herself part of a political game". No, you did that, idiot federation. She literally just went there to go boxing. "I don't fight for the Netherlands, I fight for myself", she said, and that's the way it is.
 
I'm all fine with the Dutch federation opting to not represent themselves there, but making life so difficult for individuals who do want to go and compete...that's low. #TeamDeCler

ATP Challenger Tour
 
India: - Sumit play in Rd2
             Sriram/Jeevan, Sumit/Mukund, Arjun/Jay play in QF
             Anirudh/Vijay, Ramkumar/Vishnu lost in Rd1

INDIA 
 
1. Our rifle / pistol team .... All ten events  ..... We have a huge number of high quality shooters and this was seen in the Cairo wch but shooting is very uncertain and we do not have the "Hancock" yet, for instance we despite having the quality between the junior and senior team to put 1-2 players into the finals of virtually all the events  got only 1 medal and 3 quotas  ..... But the best is clearly rudraksh in 10m AR our gold medal winner in both WCh and presidents Cup ....
 
2. Neeraj Chopra ..... Athletics javelin men :  a gold in Tokyo , a silver in the wch .....very very consistent but needs to add another 2-3 metres to be almost unbeatable 
 
3. Women boxing ....like shooting we have been dominating / doing well in juniors but in seniors only Nikhat Zareen is standing out with a World championship gold but nitu , Parveen and a few more can suprise the world 
 
4. Wrestling : only Ravi Kumar our silver medallist in Tokyo in 57 Free is the only one who is a possibility ... But there are others from Iran , Russia etc who are in the same league currently 
 
5. Badminton : satwik / chirag are the current World championship bronze medallists , they are improving and on their day can go on to even try for gold .. but this a long shot ....

It is sickening of Spain to do this ...
 
 
The Indian team would have been this .....
 
MEN: FREESTYLE: Aman Sehrawat (57 kg), Akash Dahiya (61 kg), Anuj Kumar (65 kg), Parvinder Nain (70 kg), Sagar Jaglan (74 kg), Chandermohan (79 kg), Jony Kumar (86 kg), Parveen Kumar (92 kg), Sahil Ahalawat (97 kg), Anirudh Kumar (125 kg).
GRECO-ROMAN: Lalit (55 kg), Sumit Dalal (60 kg), Vinay (63 kg), Ashu (67 kg), Vikas (72 kg), Sajan Bhawanwala (77 kg), Rohit Dahiya (82 kg), Sunil Kumar (87 kg), Nitesh (97 kg), Parvesh (130 kg).
 
obviously I would have looked to see Sagar , jony , Praveen and anirudh in free and Sunil in Greco to win medals .... Besides in women a whole group of them .....but well.... 

India is also progressing in Greco but not at the same speed as freestyle.
I believe I said this before that Indian wrestlers have a certain style (somehow similar to our style) which is much more effective in age group levels. they usually work with their hands on standing position, trying to make the opponent tired and score lots of points on pushouts/takedowns. that's not much effective in senior level when the opposite wrestlers are more psychically prepared (we also more or less face the same issue)
 
about this tournament, 3 bronze medals is indeed a good result. shows the continuing progress. Nitesh at 97kg somehow got lucky with the draw. only lost to Szoke (HUN) (World Seniors Silver medalist) but dominated the rest even though none of them were from wrestling nations. I know Sajan for a while, I was actually expecting more from him in past few years, he only lost a match to that great Moldovan guy (to me that guy Gutu is world senior medalist material) Sajan won some close matches to win the bronze. this bronze is probably the best result of his career. and about Vikas I saw him at the Asian Senior Champs earlier this year, had a good tournament, b eat some tough guys, he could even make it to the final.
 
but obviously I was more impressed by your freestyle guys, I saw Aman before and I would bet on him to win the gold (and he did) I believe he will take Ravi Kumar's throne soon. I wished we could see the whole Indian team in action, I'm sure there were some more "interesting" guys to see on the mat. I believe you have a very good 65kg wrestler (can't remember his name right now)
 
and about this visa thing, our team also almost missed the competition, the visa arrived only few hours before the flight. but while the whole team managed to get into Spain, two of them (1 in GR and 1 in FS) received Israel draw and had to withdraw and that was the main reason Iran lost the freestyle title to Georgia (despite winning 4 gold medals)

Uww world Championship will start today in Belgrade. 
First day will see competition in Greco Roman category. 
The categories today are
55- Arjun Halakurki will faceMax Nowry
       of 🇺🇸 in round of 16.
 
72- Vikas will face Bolkavadze of 
       🇬🇪 in qualification round. 
 
77- Sachin will face Vardanyan from 🇺🇿
      in round of 32.
 
87-Sunil kumar will face Cengiz from 🇹🇷
      in qualification round. 
 

Yes...... We see to have many vickys, ravis etc.... May confuse some opponents, expecting one vicky and the other comes along.... 

Indian team finally finalised
 
Freestyle Team: Ravi Kumar Dahiya (57kg), Pankaj Malik (61kg), Bajrang Punia (65kg), Naveen Malik (70kg), Sagar Jaglan (74kg), Deepak Mirka (79kg), Deepak Punia (86kg), Vicky (92kg), Vicky Chahar (97kg), Dinesh Dhankar (125kg).
Greco Roman Team: Arjun Halakurki (55kg), Gyanender (60kg), Neeraj (63kg), Ashu (67kg), Vikas (72kg), Sachin (77kg), Harpreet Singh (82kg), Sunil Kumar (87kg), Deepanshu (97kg), Satish (130kg).
 
A few suprises.... Pankaj malik a relatively unknown wrestler defeated the feted rahul aware in final of the selection, surprised not to see gaurav baliyan in 79 FS... 

Happy for Saina as she moves into Rd3. Though moving ahead looks bleak.

Dhruv/Arjun are the surprise package for  making it to the QF of the MD.

As usual you rock in your observations .... 

we knew Iran has a strong junior team this time, actually we were expecting more from the freestyle team 5 of these guys are well-known wrestlers in senior level and 4 of them were in contention to make the senior team this year. yet only 2 of them managed to win the gold (we had a surprise gold medalist at 79kg too)
 
I watched most of the matches and I have to say in the Indian team I was more impressed by your 65 and 74kg guys. before the competition I would bet on Sujeet to win the 65kg gold, I'm following him for months and I think he can even beat Bajrang right now (or at least challenge him) really surprised he lost to Azerbaijan in the semifinal. to me that was just lack of analyze from the Indian side. Sujeet just didn't know how to deal with the Azerbaijani plan (attacking from the distance)
 
Sagar Jaglan surprised us by beating (and eliminating) one of our best chances, Erfan Elahi who won the junior title last year at 70kg (and was in the senior team and only lost 8-8 to the eventual world senior silver medalist) I just don't know how the hell Jagal lost his SF to Japan. he surely is someone to watch out.
 
about your 125kg, I know you are not that good in heavier weights, (which is surprising consider how tough Indian wrestlers in lighter weights) he is probably a better prospect than your current heavyweight guys but still he wasn't really "impressive" he was on the easier side of the draw. no shame in losing by superiority to Masoumi in the final. Masoumi is 2nd in our senior team ladder (only behind World Senior Champion Zare) but Mahendra also lost 10-0 to our reserve junior team guy at the Asian Championship. which means he still can't compete in senior level.

Great job by Iran as usual ..... India did very well this time with 16 medals ( on total medal count the same as Iran but well behind on gold medal count ) ..... After following Indian wrestling for the last 20 years can see huge +ve trend in India , we used to average only 2-3 medals till five years ago ...... I personally thought Priya( 76 kg silver ) and reetika ( 72 kg bronze ) in women along with antim ( sole gold medal winner for India ) in the lower weight categories may soon definately start moving into the main team , also an  indian wrestler lost to Iran in the 125 free finals  , @MHSN do you feel he is good ? ..... 125 free we do not have any good wrestlers , i also thought Sagar jaglan in 74 is someone look for in future  ...... 

This guys penis came out in the middle of the race 
 
Athletics U20 Championships due to a wardrobe malfunction. 18-year-old Alberto Nonino, who hails from Italy, was competing in the 400-meter of decathlon in Cali, Colombia when the incident took place. Alberto Nonino started off extremely well by gaining pace against his competitors, leaving the bystanders under the impression that he might win the race with quite ease. However, after Nonino passed the middle lane, he looked uncomfortable and kept reaching down to hold his crotch a couple of times. He came last ?? 

Wrestling stopped because a light almost fell on the mat chairman .... Ouch 

WTA Rankings
 
Singles
Ankita  - 363
 
Doubles
Saina     - 23
Ankita    -147

UCI Rankings
 
Men Elite Sprint  -  Ronaldo - 47
                               Esow      - 101
Men Elite Keirin   -  Esow      - 41
                               Ronaldo  - 71
                               David      - 99
Men Elite 1km Time Trial  - Ronaldo - 18
                                           David     - 83
                                           Rojit      - 89
                                           Jemsh    - 92
Men Elite 1km  Team Time Trial   - 17
Men Elite Team Sprint                 - 22
Men Elite Team Keirin                   - 21
Men Elite Team Pursuit                 - 35
 
Women 500m Time Trial - Aleena  - 92

Avinash Sable creates another National record in 3000mSC with timings of 8:12.48

commonwealth Games is becoming such a farce 
 
what is the purpose of any multigame event ......  I believe it is to foster sports , participation and interest in all the countries which form the nations which are part of the nations involved .... There are 70 odd participants to the games ( but look closely and you will find there are only53 countries in the commonwealth so all the rest are overseas territories  or Ok adding isle of man and jersey as seperate team )
 
so  lets look at the 53 countries 
 
an africa group which includes kenya , uganda , whose primary interest would be athletics 
a carribean group like jamaica, bahamas etc whose primary interest would be athletics 
 
 
 
so possibly 15 -20 odd countries who would have a wider interest in a multigames program which would be divided into 
 
the core dominion countries - UK , Australia , canada and NZ 
Large african countries - Nigeria , SA 
South asian cluster  - India, Pakistan , bangladesh srilanka 
SEA cluster  - singapore , malaysia 
 
 
now let us look at the sports they have increased medals in or cut in the last 20  years  ( last 5 games ) 
 
They  have cut shooting 40 to 0 where india dominated , but also the sole medal winner for bangladesh 
 
They have cut wrestling from 14 to 0  where it was a sport where india dominated and nigeria did well and so did pakistan ( this took a lot of effort as they had to change the whole framework as 
 
they have reduced the weightlifting medals from 45 to 15  a sport where india dominates but the smaller oceanic countries like soma, fiji , etc did well in, also pakistan and srilanka get a majority of their medals . I am seeing this as the next target as this is a sport the dominion do badly at and other countries somoa , india and nigeria do well at  
 
so cut  a 100 medals here 
 
what sports have they increased or added 
 
aquatics gone up from 48 to an incredible 66 ...... this event is almost wholly dominated by the dominion 4 and SA 
 
cycling gone up from 15 to 26 ...... the event is almost wholely dominated by the dominion 4 
 
lawn bowls gone up from 6 to 11 again a sport dominated by the dominion 4 
 
gymnastics gone up from 15 to 20 odd adding rhythmic gymnastics again a sport dominated by the dominion 4 + cyprus 
 
judo has been added by UK and dropped by Aus every time a desperate ping pong in sport of 14 medals again dominated by UK \
 
Para atheletics around 10-12 events carefully selected to reflect the dominion 4 only 11 /12 medals only by them 
 
triatholon and squash with 10 or so medals have been added which are events where all the gold medals are won by the dominion 4 
 
so added a 80 odd  medals here 
 
so if you add the athletics program of 60 or so , , almost 200 medals out of 270 or so ( 75% comes in just 6 sports .with the new changes l ) ...... 5 out of these 6 sports almost exclusively the dominion of the 5 dominion countries .........and you cut a 100 medals in sports like weightlifting , wrestling and shooting where  non dominion countries did well in and completely dropped shooting and wrestling pretty much mainstay programs 
 
if india protests it is a fair protest  ....... this is turning into a dominion games.... of interest of only the 4 dominion countries and possibly SA ........ so go ahead you are killing interest in the CWG  in all countries except the 4 dominion countries and SA ............ anyway  commonwealth para games , commonwealth youth games , cCWG winter games are already killed  .......very soon the main CWG will die or you convert them  into a quadrilateral games and drop the multigames tag 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Karma is a bitch ....ain't she ....