Chiba: VINESH Phogat suffered a massive defeat at the Olympics after being pinned by Belarus’ Vanesa Kaladzinskaya in the quarter-finals of 53kg not just out of the gold medal but also facing the risk of being eliminated, here on Thursday.
Vinesh did not have an answer to the highest defense of Vanesa, which took revenge from India on the biggest stage after suffering a similar embarrassing defeat ‘in the fall’ earlier this year in Ukraine.
Vanesa, the ruling European champion, executed his strategy perfectly because Vinesh could not find a way to get out of the vanesa headlock.
It cripples and shook the top seed vinesh, which is one of the strongest wrestlers in his category.
Even when Vinesh was behind Vansea, he could not push him to the knee from a favorable position with Belarus showing great power to keep his legs straight.
VINESH uses all its strength but the Vanesa defense will not be destroyed.
Even the famous Double leg attack that Vinesh used to get himself to a position to clamp his rival, it did not produce points.
Now if Belarus doesn’t make the final, the Vinesh Olympic campaign will end with another heart exit.
He suffered the defeat of the quarter-final against the Chinese sun in Rio Games, where he also suffered a foot injury and was enforced out of the mattress.
Before this fight, Vinesh had removed Rio Olympics Bronze-Winner and MeaM-Time World Medals Sofia Mattsson with a 7-1 victory.
VINESH has defeated Sweden at the 2019 World Championship too.
Every time Mattson initiated a right foot attack, Vinesh produced a beautiful counter to score points.
Shows his extraordinary strength, Vinesh reverses Sweden from a difficult position on the edge of the mat when he can concede a point.
Indians maintain intensity throughout and even get a position for PIN but Sweden escaped shame.
Young Anshu Malik bowed from the 57kg competition after losing 1-5 round repechage to Russia Valeria Koblova, the Rio Olympic silver medalist.
Anshu never seemed intimidated by a stronger opponent and led a fight at one stage on the criteria but towards the end, Russia issued two pointers going forward.
The 19-year-old Indian has lost the opening to the European Champion Irina Kurachikina but after Belarus developed to the final, he rose again to argue.
Ravi Dahiya (57kg) and Deepak Punia (86kg) will fight for gold and bronze medals, in the evening session.