Ravi Malik makes bronze medal round, Narinder Cheema in repechage
Malik began with a 6-0 win over Estonia's Robin Uspenski and followed that up with an 18-9 victory over Kyrgyzstan's Zhenish Humnabekov, who got three cautions in the quarterfinal bout.
Published : Aug 21, 2021 18:56 IST
Ravi Malik and Narinder Cheema remained in medal contention of Greco Roman competitions at the World junior wrestling championships in Ufa, Russia, on Saturday.
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Ravi defeated Robin Uspenski of Estonia (6-0) and Zhenish Zhumabekov of Kyrgyzstan (18-9). He made it to an 82kg bronze medal match after being beaten by Armenian Karen Khachatryan (9-0) in the semifinals.
Narinder got past German Anton Vieweg (6-5) and Uzbek Abrorbek Nurmukhammedov (11-6) before losing to Pavel Hlinchuk of Belarus (4-0) in the 97kg quarterfinals.
As Hlinchuk entered the final, Narinder got into the repechage round.