After first day heroics by Sunil Kumar in the Greco-Roman category, India started on a good note on day 2 as well.
Although India’s road to gold ends in the Greco-Roman, there will be four Indians playing for the third position later this evening.
Joining Ashu and Aditya, Gyanender will play the bronze medal match in the 60kg category even after he was beaten by the world champion from Japan Kenichiro Fumita in the quarterfinals.
Along with the above three, Hardeep has also made the cut to play the bronze medal match in the 97kg category. Earlier, he was beaten by Iranian Mohammadhadi Saravi in the quarterfinals. Saravi will now play the Korean Seyeol Lee in the gold medal match.
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Aditya lost semis; to play for bronze
Aditya Kundu lost to Ibragim Magomadov of Kazakhstan in what looked like a one-sided affair. Aditya could only stand 71 seconds in front of Kazakhstan’s wrestler and lost by a scoreline of 0-9.
Magomadov will be playing his first-ever gold-medal match.
Ashu to play for bronze; Harpreet’s road to glory ends
In an eventful match, Makhmud Bakhshilloev of Uzbekistan ended India’s hope as he defeated Ashu on technical grounds after the match tied on 4 points each. He will now play the bronze medal match later this evening.
After a well-fought battle, Harpreet Singh of India lost to Iranian Mahdi Asgar Ebrahimi by 7-0 in round three of the Greco-Roman 82kg category.
Aditya eyeing another medal for India
Aditya Kundu of India defeated Tajikistan’s Loiqi Amirkhonzoda by 9-0 in the 72 kg Greco Roman category to reach the semi finals.
He will now face Ibragim Magomadov of Kazakhstan in the second semi finals later in the day.
Ashu in Semis
India’s Ashu has made it to the semi-finals of the 67kg category as he thrashed unherald Fu Hao Lin of Chinese Taipei in the last 8 bout. Ashu won the bout easily by 10-0.
In the semi-finals, 2017 Cadet world silver medallist Ashu will play Makhmud Bakhshilloev of Uzbekistan. Bakhshilloev won the Rome Ranking series gold and also won the junior world championships silver medal in 2018.
Gyanender thrashed by Fumita
2019 Asian Championship bronze medallist Gyanender had a bad day in office as he lost out tamely to world champion Kenichiro Fumita of Japan. In the 60kg quarterfinal bout, Fumita defeated Indian in under 2 minutes by 9-0.
Earlier in the 82kg category, India’s Harpreet Singh Sandhu started the second day of the Sr. Asian Wrestling Championship on a positive note as he defeated Japanese Satoki Mukai by 6-1 but lost out the second round robin bout. The 82kg category is played on round-robin format and Harpreet still stands a chance to finish on the podium.
Indians in action on DAY 2 of the Asian Wrestling Championships 2020
72kg: SemiFinals – Aditya Kundu (IND) lost to Ibragim Magomadov (KAZ) 0-9
67kg: SemiFinals – Ashu (IND) lost to Makhmud Bakhshilloev (UZB) 4-4 (on technical grounds)
82kg: Round 3 – Harpreet (IND) lost to Mahdi Asgar Ebrahimi (IRI) 0-7
72kg: Quarterfinals – Aditya Kundu (IND) def. Loiqi Amirkhonzoda (TJK) 9-0
60kg: Quarterfinals – Gyanender (IND) lost to Kenichiro FUMITA (JPN) 0-9
67kg: Quarterfinals – Ashu (India) beat Fu Hao Lin (Chinese Taipei) 10-0
Match Schedule and result for Indian Wrestlers
| MAT | W | no | Round | Name | Name | points |
| MAT -B | GR – 82 kg | 75 | Round 1 | (IND) Singh HARPREET | (JPN) Satoki MUKAI | 6-1 |
| MAT -C | GR – 72 kg | Qualif. | 94 | (IND) Aditya KUNDU (8) | (UZB) Alijon KHUSEYNOV (9) | 8-2 |
| MAT -C | GR – 82 kg | Rnd 2 | Round 2 | (KAZ) Yevgeniy POLIVADOV (5) | (IND) Singh HARPREET (1) | 5-2 |
| MAT -B | GR – 60 kg | 80 | 1/4 Final | (JPN) Kenichiro FUMITA | (IND) Gyanender GYANENDER | 9-0 |
| MAT -B | GR – 67 kg | 81 | 1/4 Final | (IND) Ashu ASHU | (TPE) Fu Hao LIN | 10-0 |
| MAT -B | GR – 97 kg | 84 | 1/4 Final | (IND) Hardeep HARDEEP | (IRI) Mohammadhadi Abdollah SARAVI | 11:36 |
| MAT -B | GR – 82 kg | 86 | Round 3 | (IND) Singh HARPREET (1) | (IRI) Mahdi Asgar EBRAHIMI (7) | 11:50 |
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