Tokyo Olympics Wrestling LIVE: World No. 1 Bajrang Punia commences his Tokyo Olympics campaign against Kyrgyzstan’s Ernazar Akmataliev; Bajrang Punia vs Ernazar Akmataliev 65kg freestyle 1/8 Finals Follow live updates: All eyes will be on Bajrang Punia as he will be competing in the freestyle 65kg category event. He has three World Championship medals to his name and qualified for the Olympics by winning a bronze medal at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships. The 27-years-old wrestler is expected to win a medal for India at the Tokyo Olympics. Follow all the action of Tokyo Olympics Wrestling- Bajrang Punia vs Ernazar Akmataliev 65kg freestyle 1/8 Finals live on insidesport.co
Draw for Freestyle 65kg- Bajrang Punia avoids Otoguro, who has beaten him twice. The other half is a real minefield. That’s the good news. He has heavy handed Akmataliev who @siwachvinay feels is a potential banana peel in his first round. I’m not making predictions for this one pic.twitter.com/1zjyfmH8Uy
— jonathan selvaraj (@jon_selvaraj) August 5, 2021
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Bajrang Punia has had a stellar record before. In the 2019 World Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, he became the first Indian freestyle wrestler to win a career total of three world championship medals, when he claimed bronze in the 65kg category.
Before that, he became the first Indian freestyle wrestler to win a second world championship medal after he earned a silver in 2018 in Budapest, Hungary, following his first world championship medal [bronze] in 2013.
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Bajrang’s opposition, Ernazar Akmataliev began the sport in 2008 in Naryn, Kyrgyzstan. He placed at the 2019 U23 World Championships with a win over Jaydin Eierman, and qualified 65kg for Tokyo with a come-from-behind pin slay of Ilyas Bekbolatov in the semifinals of the Asian Olympic Games Qualifier.
He has received the title of Master of Sport in Kyrgyzstan. He wanted to do the sport after watching Kyrgyzstani wrestlers Kanatbek Begaliev and Ruslan Tyumenbaev compete at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
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Bajrang should easily win this bout. World No. 1 should not have any problem in beating the wrestler from Kyrgystan.
If he defeats Ernazar Akmataliev, he will reach the quarterfinals and face either Ghiasi Cheka of Iran or Tunisia’s Dakhlaoui. Much like the 1/8 finals, Bajrang should not have any difficulty beating either of these wrestlers and should reach the semi-finals.
If Punia reaches the semi-finals, he is bound to face the winner of Kazakhstan’s Niyazbekov vs Cuba’s Tobie Valdes or Senegal’s Diatta vs Azerbaijan’s Aliyev.
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