Tokyo Olympics | Ravi Dahiya thunders back to enter gold decoration round
Ravi Kumar Dahiya's clinical exhibition procured him a spot in the last of the men's free-form 57kg weight class and guaranteed another decoration for the country in the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday.
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After Sushil Kumar, Worlds bronze medallist and double cross Asian boss Ravi turned into the second Indian grappler to book a billet in the last.
Dahiya will take on double cross World hero Zaur Uguev of Russia in the title conflict.
The Indian made an exciting rebound to beat twofold Worlds medallist Kazakh Nurislam Sanayev 'by fall' in the elimination rounds.
Driving 2-1 in the main period, he followed 2-9 in the second as the Kazakh resisted his head injury to turn the Indian over with a twofold leg hold.
Be that as it may, Dahiya shut the hole to 5-9 and showed his class to nail down the Kazakh breathtakingly to arrive at the last.
Prior, the Indian beat Pan American silver medallist Colombian Oscar Tigreros 13-2 and Bulgarian Georgi Vangelov 14-4 on specialized prevalence over make the last four.
Twofold leg assault
In his initial session, which was 2-2 get-togethers first period, Dahiya depended on a twofold leg assault on Tigreros for a pivotal bring down. The Indian amassed focuses at a quicker speed to outmaneuver the Colombian.
In the quarterfinal against Vangelov, Ravi was 6-0 up in the main period. He outsmarted Vangelov in an activity loaded second time frame to wrap up the challenge with 16 seconds left on the clock.
Universes silver medallist Deepak Punia won two sessions prior to losing to previous World hero David Taylor of the USA 10-0 in the 86kg elimination rounds. He will confront either Ali Shabanau or Myles Amine in the bronze decoration challenge.
Anshu Malik (ladies' 57kg), who went down battling to twofold Worlds medallist Iryna Kurachkina 8-2 in the first round, had motivation to praise her birthday on Thursday as she came to the repechage round after the Belarusian's advancement to the last.
Anshu will meet Rio Olympics silver medallist Russian Valeria Koblova in her first repechage match.
Deepak guaranteed his initial session on specialized predominance, beating African hero Nigerian Ekerekeme Agiomor 12-1.
He fought off a solid test from Chinese Lin Zhusen to post a 6-3 win and arrive at the elimination rounds.
At 3-3, Lin had the advantage. A frantic Deepak burrowed profound to show a fabulous takedown on the Chinese and win the session.
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