Officials in the Indian contingent in Tokyo have been left ashamed after 86kg free-style wrestlers in the foreign coach Punia Murad Gaidarov, from Russia, “behaved, attacked and shouted” in the match of the referee Sergie Kovalenko from Russia, which was inaugurated in the bronze medal repechage about the missing Haryana Grappler (3-2) to San Marino’s Myles Nazim Amine on Thursday night.
Toi has learned that the incident occurred after Deepak’s fight when coach Gaidarov experienced an ugly fight with the referee match in one of the halls of the Arena makuhari Messe.
After Kovalenko gave two important points to Amine for his ferocious Takedown in Deepak in the last six seconds of the fight, which resulted in Deepak losing 3-2 after leading a 2-1 contest, Belarusian coach physically attacked the referee and abused him and kicked the Secretary General UWW Michel Dusson.
Gaidarov has been fired by WFI and his contract has been stopped with direct effects.
He will return to India on Saturday morning to collect his belongings and has been booked on a flight back to Russia the following day on Sunday.
He was personally contracted by WFI, along with a foreign coach Bajrang Shako and Kamal Dahiya.
Gaidarov, who has suffered from Tory of Tory Tantrums, has been banned for three years from any association with wrestling by American wrestling (UWW).
Foreign coach Deepak Punia was fired due to the attack on the referee match
