{"id":78512,"date":"2020-01-19T09:50:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T09:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=78512"},"modified":"2020-01-19T09:50:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T09:50:12","slug":"bajrang-punia-ravi-kumar-claim-gold-medals-in-rome-ranking-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/bajrang-punia-ravi-kumar-claim-gold-medals-in-rome-ranking-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Bajrang Punia, Ravi Kumar claim gold medals in Rome Ranking Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">India&#8217;s star wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Ravi Kumar Dahiya kicked off the Olympic year in style, winning a gold medal each in their respective weight categories at the Rome Ranking Series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ravi, who competed in the 61kg category instead of his regular 57kg, also bagged gold after getting the better of Kazakhstan&#8217;s Nurbolat Abdualiyev 12-2 in his final bout late on Saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 23-year-old from Sonepat had made the final round after securing impressive wins over Moldova&#8217;s Alexaandru Chirtoaca and Kazakhstan&#8217;s Nurislam Sanayev.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Up against one of India&#8217;s biggest medal prospects in the Tokyo Olympics, Oliver conceded that it was not his night against Bajrang.<br>\nBajrang had to sweat it out in the first round against Zain Allen Retherford of the USA before prevailing 5-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the quarterfinal, the ace Indian wrestler went past another American Joseph Christopher Mc Kenna 4-2, before getting the better of Vasyl Shuptar of Ukraine 6-4 in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, it was curtains for Jitender in the 74kg and world championship silver medallist Deepak Punia in the 86kg category.Jitender won his first bout against Denys Pavlov of Ukraine 10-1 before going down in the quarterfinals against Turkey&#8217;s Soner Demirtas 4-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jitender got a change to fight in the repechage after Demirtas entered the final, but the Indian wasted the opportunity, losing 2-9 to Daniyar Kaisanov of Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s star wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Ravi Kumar Dahiya kicked off the Olympic year in style, winning a gold medal each in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78514,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78512\/revisions\/78514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}