Jaskaran, Chandermohan enter bronze medal bouts
    Date :19-Oct-2026

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LAS VEGAS :
 
JASKARAN Singh and Chandermohan entered the bronze medal bouts in their respective weight categories, while Rohit and Shivan remained in contention through the repechage at the U-23 World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas. Competing in the 65kg freestyle category, Jaskaran registered two technical superiority wins before edging past American wrestler Bowen William Bassett 6-3 in the quarter-finals. However, he failed to make the final after losing his semi-final bout by technical superiority to Japan’s Kaiji Ogino, leaving him to fight for a bronze medal.
 
Chandermohan also made it to the bronze medal bout in the 79kg category after an impressive run to the semi-finals. He began with a 14-4 win over Georgia’s Giorgi Gogritchiani before blanking Brazil’s Kydyn Luk Correa Lima 14-0. He then recorded another technical superiority victory, beating American Joseph Lee Sealey 11-0. However, Chandermohan narrowly missed out on a place in the final, losing his semi-final 3- 4 to Iran’s Mahdi Mohammad Yousefihajivar. In the 57kg category, Rohit began his campaign with a technical superiority win over Jamaica’s Irie Alexander Jackson but suffered a 6-10 defeat to Turkiye’s Bekir Keser in the pre-quarterfinals.