India’s Veer Dev Gulia will play for the bronze medal at UWW U23 World Wrestling Championships in Budapest today. Gulia good run was halted in the semi-finals of the 79kg freestyle category late Monday night on the Day1. 22 year old Gulia tried his best but still he was no match for the Abubakr Abakarov of Azerbaijan in his Semi-Finals bout. 2018 World Junior runners up Abakarov won the bout 8-1 against Gulia to book his place in finals.
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Gulia will now vie for the bronze medal later today in the night @ 10.30PM. Results of the repechage round will determine Gulia’s bronze medal opponent.
Gulia’s likely Bronze Medal Bout opponent ?
105 – Atai IZABEKOV (KGZ) vs. Radik VALIEV (RUS)
120 – Winner 105 vs. Gheorghi PASCALOV (MDA)
Bronze – Winner 120 vs. Veer Dev GULIA (IND
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Earlier in the quarterfinals, Gulia defeated DAMJIN Batzul of Mongolia in one-sided bout by 11-1 and China’s Ligan Chai in the last 16 match-up. Gulia who hails from Jhajjar, Haryana showed his real power and strength against the Chinese. Gulia performed brilliantly to outwit the Chinese by 7-2 to book a place in the last 8 of the world championships. In the opening round, Gulia got better of the host country wrestler Lukacs Botond. In a hard fought bout Gulia prevailed 3-1 against the local hope.
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