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The results: 2003 Asian Wrestling Championships
Men's freestyle:
Final: 60-kg: Mohammadi Seyed Morad (Iri) bt Zakhart Dinov Damir (Uzb) 3-2; 74-kg: Abdusalomiv Yousup (Tjk) bt Ramazan Zadeh Reza (Iri) 6-5; 96-kg: Hiequri Alireza (Iri) bt Ibragimov Mogomed (Uzb) 6-0; 120-kg: Rezaei Alireza (Iri) bt Palwinder Cheema (Ind) TF.
Third place: 60-kg: Sushil Kumar (Ind) bt Jung Yong (Kor) 10-4; 74-kg: Sujit Mann (Ind) w.o Gennadiy Lalivev (Kaz); 96-kg: Nuzhzan Katayev (Kaz) bt Enkhtuya Turskintue (Mgl) 3-0; 120-kg: Mazid Mutaliuov (Kaz) bt Gankhuyag Dorjpalam (Mgl) 3-0.
Semifinals: 60-kg: Mohammadi Seyed Morad (Iri) bt Sushil Kumar (Ind) 3-1; Zakhart Dinov Damir (Uzb) bt Jung Yong (Kor) 4-2; 74-kg: Abdusalomov Yousup (Tjk) bt Gennadiy Lalivev (Kaz) 3-1; Ramazan Zadeh Reza (Iri) bt Sujit Mann (Ind) 5-2; 96-kg: Hiequri Alireza (Iri) bt Nuzhzan Katayev (Kaz) 8-3; Ibragimov Mogomed (Uzb) bt Enkhtuya Turskintue (Mgl) 3-1.
Men's Greco-Roman: Final: 60-kg: Hudoyber Dievasliddin (Uzb) bt Ashkaani Aghbolagh Ali (Iri) 4-2; 74-kg: Choi Duk Hoon (Kor) bt Turdien Jhongir (Uzb) 3-0; 96-kg: Han Tae Young (Kor) bt Hashen Zadeh Masoud (Iri) 3-2; 120-kg: Tsurtsumia Georgiy (Kaz) bt Park Woo (Kor) 5-0.
Third place: 60-kg: Kim Bong Suk (Kor) bt Ravinder Kumar (Ind) 3-2; 74-kg: Rustem Baiseitov (Kaz) bt Pouynaki Mohsen (Iri) 3-1; 96-kg: Assembekov Margulan (Kaz) bt Yusuke Morikaku (Jpn) 3-0; 120-kg: Gharibi ALiyeza (Iri) bt Virender Singh (Ind) fall.
Semifinals: 74-kg: Turdien Jhongir (Uzb) bt Pouynaki Mohsen (Iri) 4-2; Choi Duk Hoon (Kor) bt Rustem Baiseitov (Kaz) 8-1.
Women's freestyle:
Final: 51-kg: Nonako Hattori (Jpn) bt Emkhjargal Isogtbazar (Mgl) fall; 67-kg: Norie Saito (Jpn) bt Kiran Sihag (Ind) TF.
Third place: 51-kg: Renu Bala (Ind) bt Wang Xing (Tpe) 6-1.
League: Fourth round: 59-kg: Rena Iwamo (Jpn) bt Myagmar Suren Tumen (Mgl) fall; Huang Yu Ning (Tpe) bt Roza (Kaz) 9-5; Alka Tomar (Ind) bt Huang Yu Ning (Tpe) 12-3; Myagmar Suren Tumen (Mgl) bt Roza (Kaz) fall; 72-kg: Svetlana Yazo (Kaz) bt Burmaa Ochirbat (Mgl) 4-2; Kang Min Jeong (Kor) bt Burmaa Ochirbat (Mgl) fall. Third round: 59-kg: Rena Iwamo (Jpn) bt Huang Yu Ning (Tpe) fall; Alka Tomar (Ind) bt Roza (Kaz) fall.
Medals tally (gold-silver-bronze):
Men's freestyle: Iran 6-1-0; Tajikistan 1-1-0; Uzbekistan 0-2-0; India 0-1-3; Korea 0-1-0; Japan 0-1-0; Kazakhstan 0-0-3; Mongolia 0-0-1.
Men's Greco-Roman: Kazakhstan 3-0-2; Korea 2-1-2; Iran 1-3-2; Uzbekistan 1-2-0; India 0-1-0; Kyrgyzstan 0-0-1.
Women's freestyle: Japan 5-1-0; Mongolia 1-2-1; Kazakhstan 1-0-0; India 0-2-3; Korea 0-1-2; Chinese Taipei 0-1-0. (As there were only two entries in 67-kg class one bronze medal remained unaccounted).
Team championship:
Men: Freestyle: 1. Iran 68 points; 2. India 47; 3. Japan 36.
Greco-Roman: 1. Iran 60; 2. Kazakhstan 57; 3. Uzbekistan 49.
Women: Freestyle: 1. Japan 65; 2. India 54; 3. Mongolia 37.
Wrestling: India bags 3 more bronze medals
The Hindu, India - 17 minutes ago ( June 8,2003)
... and Sujit Mann collected two bronze medals for India while Renu Bala became only
the second Indian medallist in the women's section as the Asian Wrestling ...
Wrestling
Geetika, Gurbinder settle for silver
NEW DELHI, JUNE 7.The continental wrestling heavyweights reaped rich harvest as India faltered miserably in the gold medal bouts on the third day of the 16th Asian championship here on Saturday. Iran and Kazakhstan cornered the major part of ...
Iranians shining in Asian wrestling events - Payvand
WRESTLING: Gurbinder and Geetika keep Indian medal hopes intact - Indian Express
Times of India
Wrestling
Indian grapplers up their performance
NEW DELHI, JUNE 6. Indian wrestlers upped their performance by a few notches providing a breather to the worried team management on the second day of the 16th Asian wrestling championship here on Friday. Super heavy Palwinder Singh Cheema ...
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Gurbinder storms into semifinals
NEW DELHI, JUNE 5. Gurbinder Singh provided some spark to India's medal hunt amidst an otherwise disappointing opening day for the home team in the 16th Asian wrestling championship here on Thursday. Gurbinder secured a berth in the semifinals ...
Wrestling with heat, apathy
Times of India, India - 5 Jun 2003
Sports minister Vikram Verma got a feel of all these on the opening day of the senior
Asian wrestling championship here in the Capital, just one week after he ...
Gurbinder enters semis
Rediff, India - 1 hour ago
Gurbinder Singh, who represented India at the Olympics, lived up to his reputation
and sailed into the semi-finals of the 16th Asian Wrestling Championship in ...
Asian wrestlers feel no SARS scare
FOX Sports - 10 hours ago
Wrestlers competing in this week's Asian championship in New Delhi have been
screened on arrival and there's no threat of a SARS case among them. ...
Indians hopeful of a rich harvest
Times of India, India - 15 hours ago
NEW DELHI: Wrestling will be in focus for the next three days in Capital as some
of the continents’ best vie for the top honours in the senior Asian ...
Asian Wrestling Championship to begin on Thursday
Times of India, India - 4 Jun 2003
NEW DELHI: As many as 700 wrestlers from 15 countries will be seen in action
at the 16th Asian Wrestling Championships commencing here on Thursday. ...
WRESTLING: Top Asian matmen to vie for honours
Delhi Newsline, India - 12 hours ago
New Delhi, June 4: India will be hoping to win a bagful of medals when it plays host
to the best of Asian grapplers in the four-day 16th Senior Asian Wrestling ...
Articles submitted by Eddie Goldman/ADCC Wrestling Editor
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