Ravi Kumar Dahiya assures India a silver medal in the 57kg freestyle category

(Wrestling news) Olympics live updates: The 23 year old from Nahri Sonipat has assured India their 4th medal at the Tokyo Olympics 2020 by winning his semi final bout against Nurislam Sanayev of Kazakhstan. The bout started in a very skeptical manner as both the wrestlers were assessing each other out but eventually the Kazak took the lead. Ravi made a quick recovery and won two points heading into the half. The story of the second half was completely different as the Kazak came out all guns blazing and won 6 points in a flurry, but the Indian had other ideas as he made a magnificent comeback in the last 30 seconds of the bout, eventually winning the by fall despite losing by points 7-9.

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Now Ravi faces the world number two Zaur Uguev of the ROC(Russia) for the gold medal match tomorrow. Ravi Kumar now becomes only the second Indian to reach the final after Sushil Kumar and he will surely go for the elusive gold medal. This is India's 3rd consecutive wrestling medal in the last three Olympics.

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