It was the case of so close and yet so far for India’s Akash Antil at the UWW U23 World Wrestling Championships quarterfinal bout. In the 97kg category last 8 bout, 19 year old Akash was up against Danylo STASIUK of UKRAINE. After giving great account of himself in the Last 16 bout against LiXu of China, it was expected to be a cakewalk for Akash but surprisingly it turned out to be heart-break for the Indian.

Last 8 – 97KG Akash Antil (India) vs Danylo STASIUK (Ukraine)

Akash who has Junior Asian Championship bronze medal to his credit this year started brilliantly and often caught his opponent by surprise initially. But once in groove the Ukrainian was up to the challenge. After going down 1-3, Indian comeback to level the bout at 3-3 and then took a lead of 5-3.

It looked like, Indian will sail through the semi-finals for the first time in his career in any global level event. But Danylo came back strongly to stun Antil in the dying seconds of the bout. Not only he first leveled the scores but took lead just 6 seconds before the final whistle and entered semi-finals.

Earlier Antil performed brilliantly to enter quarterfinals of the world championships. In the last 16 bout Indian easily dismantled Li Xu from China 10-0. Antil was at his best in attack and did not give any chance to Chinese to comeback in match.

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Last 16 bout -79kg Veer Dev Gulia (India) vs Ligan Chai (China)

After registering not too convincing victory in the qualification round, VeerDev Gulia showed his real power and strength in the Last 16 bout against the Ligan Chai of China. Gulia performing brilliantly outwitted the Chinese by 7-2 to book a place in the last 8 of the world championships

Earlier in the opening round, Gulia was up against the host country wrestler Lukacs Botond. Right from the word-go Gulia created pressure on the Hungarian with his tight defense. In a hard fought bout Gulia managed to score 3-1 victory against the local hope.

Last 16 bout – 65kg Sharvan (IND) vs Rifat Saibotalov (KAZ)

India’s Sharvan dished out absolutely brilliant performance in the 65kg weight category. Indian who was up against very tough Rifat Saibotalov of Kazakhstan. Sharvan gave display of very attacking wrestling to defeat the Kazakh 8-6 and book his place in the quarterfinals of U23 World Wrestling championships. Sharvan was down 4-6 at one point of time but came back strongly to defeat the Kazakh.

In the quarterfinal India will be up against the Ilman MUKHTAROV of France.

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Qualification Round – 70kg – Naveen (Ind) vs Valiev Chermen (Russia)

In the 70kg freestyle opening round, India’s U23 National champion Naveen was no match for the Russian number 1 Valiev Chermen. Chermen was so dominating in his performance against the Indian that the bout did not even last 1.30 secs. With-in no time the champion from Russia overpowered Naveen to win the bout with-in 90 seconds by 11-0.

Qualification Round -57kg Naveen (India) vs Dauman Ahmet (Turkey)

Like his namesake in 70kg, in the 57kg freestyle category Naveen from India easily lost out to Duman Ahmet from Turkey. Naveen was no match for the Turkish wrestler and lost out 11-0 with-in no time to the national champion from Turkey.

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