Reigning Under-23 world champion freestyle wrestler Aman Sehrawat bagged a bronze medal within the males’s 57kg division at the Zagreb Open Ranking Series right here.

Aman took down Zane Richards of the USA with a 10-Four victory within the bronze medal playoff on Wednesday night time, securing the primary medal for India at Zagreb Open.

Both wrestlers have been tied at 4-4 at the tip of the primary interval. The Indian then dominated Richards within the second and picked up six straight factors to wrap up the win.

Earlier, Aman began properly with an 8-2 win over Liu Minghu of China within the {qualifications}, adopted by an 11-Eight victory within the quarterfinals. But, he suffered a loss to U20 world champion Yuto Nishiuchi of Japan 5-15 within the semifinals.

In different bouts, Vishal Kaliramana, competing within the males’s 70kg, misplaced the bronze medal bout to Azerbaijan’s Khadzhimurad Gadzhiyev by technical superiority (10-0).

Kaliramana misplaced towards USA’s Alec William Pantaleo within the qualification spherical however with the American making it to the ultimate, the Indian wrestler made it to the repechage spherical. He then registered a victory by fall on China’s Agudamu to enter the bronze medal match.

Pankaj Malik, in the meantime, was defeated by Turkey’s Emrah Ormanoglu 5-2 within the first spherical of the boys’s 61kg and couldn’t make it to the repechage.

On Thursday, Pruthviraj Babasaheb Patil (males’s 92kg) and Shivani Pawar (ladies’s 50kg) can be in motion.

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