It was a bright Wednesday (August 4) for India at the Tokyo Olympics as wrestlers Ravi Kumar Dahiya and Deepak Punia both stormed into semifinals. Ravi Dahiya defeated Bulgaria’s Georgi Vangelov in the 57kg freestyle category with a comprehensive 14-4 margin while Deepak Punia got past China’s Zushen Lin in the 86kg category with a 6-3 margin in the quarterfinal bouts.
Dahiya will now take on Kazakhstan’s Nurislam Sanayev for a right to enter the gold medal fight in the 57kg category while Punia will take on United States’ David Morris Taylor in the semifinal. Both the bouts will take place later in the afternoon on Wednesday.
Earlier, Dahiya and Punia began their Olympics campaigns with technical superiority victories, reaching the men’s freestyle 57kg and 86kg quarterfinals respectively with ease. The 19-year-old Anshu Malik though lost the women’s 57kg opener to European champion Irina Kurachikina of Belarus 2-8
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