Jitender Kumar (74Kg) will try to seal his name on the yellow metal tonight after having made it through the qualifiers, defeating Thai opponent Chamnanjan Parinya 14-5 before overcoming Iran’s Hosseinkhani Mostafa Mohabbali 2-2 in the quarter-finals. He prevailed over Zandanbud Sumiyabazar of Mongolia in the semi-final 2-1 to set up his Gold medal face off against 2018 Asian Games Silver medalist Kaisanov Daniyar of Kazakhstan.
2018 Commonwealth Games Gold medalist and 2019 Asian and World Bronze medalist, Rahul Aware (61Kg) defeated Uzbekistan’s Turobov Jahongirmirza by a scoreline of 11-9 in the quarterfinals and lost to Zholdoshbekov Ulukbek of Kyrgyzstan 5-3 in the semifinal bout. Rahul will face Iran’s Dastan Majid Almas for the Bronze medal later today.
Deepak Punia (86Kg) is set to challenge Iraq’s Al Obaidi Issa Abdulsalam Abdulwahhab for the Bronze medal after losing his semifinal bout against Japanese grappler Yamada Shutaro 4-1.
In the 92kg category, India’s Someveer lost to Uzbekistan’s Saparniyazov Ajiniyaz 0-10 while Satender (125Kg) lost to Tajik Anakulov Farkhod 12-1 in the repechage round today.
Indian wrestlers in action on day 6 of Asian Championships 2020
61Kg- Semifinal- Ulukbek ZHOLDOSHBEKOV (KGZ) df. Rahul Balasaheb AWARE (IND) 5-3
74Kg- Semifinal- Jitender JITENDER (IND) df. Sumiyabazar ZANDANBUD (MGL) 2-1
86Kg- Semifinal- Shutaro YAMADA (JPN) df. Deepak PUNIA (IND) 4-1
92Kg- Quaterfinal- Ajiniyaz SAPARNIYAZOV (UZB) df. Somveer SOMVEER (IND) 10-0
125Kg- Repechage- Farkhod ANAKULOV (TJK) df. Satender SATENDER (IND) 12-1