2018 World Wrestling Championships: Indian Results

After having a good run in 2018, Indian Wrestling Contingent is participating in 2018 World Wrestling Championships held at Budapest from 20-28 Oct, 2018. Aiming to become the only Indian wrestler to win two medals at World Wrestling Championship, Bajrang Punia is the only Indian wrestler to be seeded among top 4 in any of the three events. He has won a Bronze medal before.

Indian Medal Winners at World Wrestling Championships

Schedule and Results
Day 1: Oct 20 – 1 Semifinal, Two Round 1 in Men’s Freestyle

125 KgSumit lost Semifinal, to play for Bronze against Repechage winner
QF def Yermukambet (Kazakhstan)
1/8 def Taiki (Japan)

61 Kg: Sonba Tanaji Gongane Lost Repechage
86 Kg: Pawan Kumar lost in Qualification
74 Kg: Jitender lost in Round 1

Day 2: Oct 21 – 57kg, 65kg, 79kg and 92kg

Bronze Medal Match: Sumit vs Top seed (USA) Men’s Freestyle 125 Kg
65 Kg Bajrang Punia
Round 1 defeats Roman ASHARIN (HUN) 9-4.
Round 2 defeats Lee Seungchul (KOR) 4-0
QF def Tulga Tumur Ochir (Mongolia) 5-3
SF def Alejandro (Cuba) 4-3
Enters Final to be played on Day 3

57 Kg Sandeep Tomar

Round 1 defeats Cristian Jose MOX ARIAS (GUA) 10-0
Round 2 lost to Giorgi (AZE) by VPOI 2-2

79 Kg: Sachin Rathi lost in Round 1 vs Unurbat (Mongolia)
92 Kg: Deepak lost in Round 1 vs Sagaliuk (Ukraine) 0-4

Day 3: Oct 22 – Men’s freestyle 70 & 97 Kg, Women’s Freestyle 55 & 59 Kg

Gold Medal Match: Bajrang Punia lost to Takuto (Japan) Men’s FS 65 Kg – won SILVER
Other Events
Men’s freestyle
70kg Pankaj Rana lost in Round 2
97kg Mausam Khatri lost in Round 1
Women wrestling
55kg Seema lost in Round 2
59kg Sarita lost in QF

Day 4: Oct 23 – Women’s Freestyle

65 Kg Ritu Malik Lost QF, to Play in Repechage
68 Kg Navjot 1/8
72 Kg Rajni 1/8
76 Kg Kiran 1/8

Day 5: Oct 24 – Women’s Freestyle

65 Kg Ritu Malik wins Repechage
LOST Bronze medal match vs Ayana (Japan)
50kg Ritu Phogat QF – Play Repechage
53kg Pinki 1/8
57kg Pooja Dhanda QF – Play Repechage
62kg Sakshi Malik QF – Lost Repechage

Day 5: Oct 25
Women’s FS Bronze medal match

50kg Ritu Phogat lost to Oksana (Ukraine)
57kg Pooja Dhanda def Grace (Norway) – BRONZE

Greco Roman
55 Kg: Vijay Qualification
63 Kg: Gaurav Sharma Qualification
72 Kg Kuldeep Malik Qualification
82 Kg Harpreet Singh Qualification

Day 6: Oct 26 – Greco Roman

60kg Gyanender Qualification
67kg Manish Round 1
82kg Harpreet Singh Round 1
87kg Manjeet Round 1