Olympic bronze medallist Bajrang Punia lost in the quarterfinals of the Wrestling World Championships on Saturday. As a result, he is out of gold medal contention. On the other hand, Sagar Jaglan will eye to clinch a bronze medal in the 74kg category of the event.
Bajrang, a two-time Commonwealth Games champion lost to USA's 23-year-old Yianni Diakomihalis in the 65kg quarterfinal bout. He suffered the defeat by 10-0 due to technical superiority.
The 28-year-old Indian has three World Championship medals to his name. He won a silver medal at the 2018 edition of the tournament in Budapest. He bagged bronze medals in the years 2013 and 2019, respectively.
In order to participate in the bronze medal match, Punia will now hope that Diakomihalis reaches final to get a shot via the repechage.
Earlier, Bajrang had defeated Cuba's Alejandro Enrique Valdes Tobier on points (5-4) in the pre-quarterfinals.
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The 18-year-old Sagar Jaglan, continued his quest for a bronze medal in the 74kg category as he defeated Suldkhuu Olonbayar of Mongolia by 7-3.
The World under-20 bronze medallist will take on Yones Aliakbar Emamichoghaei of Iran in the bronze medal match later in the day.
In the 97kg event, Vicky lost his qualification round bout to Samuel Scherrer of Switzerland 2-2. He was out of medal contention along with Pankaj (61kg), who also made an opening round exit after going down to Assyl Aitakyn of Kazakhstan.
In the Women's category, Vinesh Phogat clinched a bronze medal in the 53kg category on Wednesday. She scripted history by becoming the first Indian woman to win two medals at the tournament. The 28-year-old defeated Emma Jonna Malmgren of Sweden by 8-0
