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Indian wrestlers miss Olympic qualification

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ALMATY, April 9: Much was expected from Sunil Kumar but the country’s top Greco Roman wrestler could not make the cut for the Tokyo Olympics after losing his semifinal at the Asian Qualifiers along with four other Indians, here on Friday.
Only the finalists will earn a place in the Tokyo Games from this event and five Indians lost in the last-four stage to miss the chance on the opening day of the competition.
Competing in the 87kg category, Asian champion Sunil began his campaign with a 7-0 win over Kyrgyzstan’s Sukhrob Abdulkhaev.
However, the Indian Olympic hopeful lost a tough semifinal 5-9 to local hope Nursultan Tursynov, who pulled off solid winning throw towards the end of the bout.
None of India’s Greco Roman wrestlers have qualified for the 2020 Games as yet but three free style wrestlers (men) – Bajrang Punia (65kg), Ravi Dahiya (57kg) and Deepak Punia (86kg) – have made the cut through the World Championship.
Vinesh Phogat (53kg) is the lone Indian woman wrestler to have qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Gyanender (60kg), Ashu (67kg), Gurpreet Singh (77kg) and Naveen (130kg) lost their respective semifinals to go out of the race but will fight for bronze medals later in the day.
Ravi (97kg) lost his quarterfinal but still made the bronze play-off against Korea’s Seyeol Lee.
The women’s competition will be held on Saturday while the men’s free style competition is slated for Sunday. (PTI)

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