World Wrestling Championships 2022: Ravi Kumar Dahiya out of gold medal run with 2nd round defeat to Gulomjon Abdullaev-Sports News , Firstpost
World No. 2 Ravi Kumar Dahiya lost by technical superiority (10-0) to Uzbekistan’s Gulomjon Abdullaev in what appeared to be a meek surrender as early as the second round of the 57kg category at the World Wrestling Championships 2022.
Ravi Kumar Dahiya (lying on the mat) taken down by Uzbekistan’s Gulomjon Abullaev during World Wrestling Championships 2022 in Belgrade on Friday. Screengrab/UWW
India’s star wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya made an early exit from the gold medal run at the World Wrestling Championships 2022 in Belgrade on Friday as the 24-year-old Olympic silver medallist lost to Uzbekistan’s Gulomjon Abdullaev.
The 57kg category match, a pre-quarterfinal encounter, was expected to be tricky as World No. 30 Abdullaev has defeated the Indian multiple times in the past. However, the World No. 2 Indian lost by technical superiority (10-0) to the Uzbek in what appeared to be a meek surrender. The defeat came right after Ravi had a strong to his campaign as he comfortably defeated Romania’s Razwan Kovacs by technical superiority.
For Abdullaev, the win over Ravi was a sort of revenge as the Indian defeated the 23-year-old Uzbek in the previous encounter in UWW Ranking Series event (Yasar Dogu 2022) in Istanbul in February.
It remains to be seen if Ravi will reach the repechage round as Abdullaev will have to reach the gold medal match for that. The journey for Abdullaev remains tricky with the likes of Thomas Gilman (defending champion), Toshhihiro Hasegawa (2021 Word Champion in 61kg) fighting for gold.
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