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.