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Chiba (Japan), August 4
Ravi Dahiya on Wednesday turned solely the second Indian wrestler to qualify for the title conflict on the Olympic Video games, when he sensationally turned across the 57kg semifinal bout by pinning Kazakhstan’s Nurislam Sanayev, right here on Wednesday.
In the meantime, Deepak Punia went right down to David Taylor of the US within the semifinals of males’s freestyle within the 86kg class. He’ll now battle for the bronze medal.
Dahiya hails from Nehri village of Sonepat district in Haryana.
Earlier than Dahiya, who’s son of a Haryana farmer, Sushil Kumar was the one Indian to make the gold medal bout on the 2012 London Video games however needed to accept a silver.
The fourth seed Indian trailed 2-9 after Sanayev effected a number of ‘fitley’ (leg lace) however because the clocked ticked away, Dahiya regrouped and obtained maintain of his rival with a double leg assault that resulted in a ‘victory by fall’.
Regardless of an enormous deficit, Dahiya didn’t panic, exhibiting super psychological power and dramatically turned the bout in his favour.
After the tip of the primary interval, Dahiya had a 2-1 lead however Sanayev got here ready and attacked the Indian’s left leg, getting grip of that turned him thrice to log six factors in a jiffy.
Instantly Dahiya’s lead was gone and he was observing a defeat however his superior stamina and technical prowess was nonetheless at work. The remaining one minute was sufficient for him to show the tide and he did it in model.
He obtained maintain of Sanayev with a double leg assault after which gripped him tightly, Kazkahstan wrestler’s again on the mat and completed the bout with a may ‘pin’.
Even in his earlier bouts Dahiya was dominant because the 23-year received each his earlier contests on technical superiority en route the ultimate.
Dahiya outclassed Colombia’s Tigreros Urbano (13-2) in his opener after which outwitted Bulgaria’s Georgi Valentinov Vangelov (14-4).
He’s now solely the fifth Indian wrestler to have received an Olympic medal after KD Jadhav, Sushil Kaumar, Yogeshwar Dutt and Sakshi Malik.
Jadhav had develop into India’s first wrestler and likewise the primary particular person Olympic medallist when he received a bronze throughout the 1952 Helsinki Video games.
After that, Sushil Kumar enhanced wrestling’s profile by profitable a bronze on the 2008 Beijing Video games and bettered the color of the medal by claiming a historic silver in 2012 on the London Video games that made him India’s solely athlete with two particular person Olympic medals.
The feat since then has now been matched by shuttler PV Sindhu.
In the identical 2012 version of the Video games, Yogeshwar Dutt received a bronze.
Sakshi Malik turned the primary Indian lady wrestler to win an Olympic medal when she took a bronze within the 2016 Rio Video games.
This might properly be a watershed Video games for Indian wrestling with each Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia additionally in competition. PTI
