Indian grappler Ashu misplaced his bronze medal play-off bout to Iran’s Hossein Nasrollah Assadi Kolmati in the 67kg greco-roman class of the Asian Wrestling Championship right here on Wednesday.
For the Iranian, the bout ended in a 9-0 victory by technical superiority.
In the final version in 2020, Ashu had settled for the bronze medal defeating the identical wrestler.
The end result meant not one of the Indian wrestlers might clear the bronze medal play-offs stage in the continued championship.
On Tuesday, Gurpreet Singh and Sandeep additionally misplaced their bronze medal bouts as Indian wrestlers drew a clean on the opening day of the event.
In 77kg, Gurpreet misplaced his bronze play-off 0-5 to Kyrgyzstan’s Kairatbek Tugolbaev. He earlier misplaced a hard-fought semifinal (7-7) on standards to Iran’s Pejman Poshtam.
Sandeep suffered defeat in the 50kg bronze medal struggle 5-11 to Nurmukhammet Abdullaev of Kyrgyzstan after dropping the semifinal by technical superiority to Japan’s Yu Shiotani.
In 63kg, Neeraj was ousted on the Qualification stage, dropping by technical superiority to Korea’s Hanjae Chung.
In 87kg, Sunil Kumar made an exit after dropping his quarterfinal 1-3 to Uzbekistan’s Rustam Assakalov whereas Naveen Kumar (130kg) misplaced his last-eight stage match by technical superiority to Uzbekistan’s Sukhrob Fattoev.
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