US FREESTYLE CLAIMS PAIR OF FREESTYLE MEDALS AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS FREESTYLE RECAP

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The USA Freestyle Team entered this year’s World Championships with high hopes, behind the momentum of World #1 Jordan Burroughs who had not lost in three years of World and Olympic competition heading in.

The last two days have been tough on Team USA, however, as the American contingent will walk away from the World Championships with only two medals, and no wrestlers advancing to the Gold Medal match.

Burroughs was the last hope, wrestling today in the Semifinals, but fell to Russian Denis Tsarguh 9-2 in the semifinals after suffering an MCL injury earlier in the day that played an obvious role in Burroughs’ mobility.

Burroughs finished on a high note despite the injury, scoring a fall in the Bronze medal match to win his 4th consecutive World medal.

Heavyweight Tervel Dlagnev put together a solid outing on the first day of competition, earning the Bronze medal in the 120kg weight class to break through and secure his first medal after a couple 5th-place finishes.

Team USA was an overall 15-7 in the freestyle World Championships, read below for full match results.

TEAM USA FREESTYLE RESULTS

57 kg/125.5 lbs. – Tony Ramos, Iowa City, Iowa (Titan Mercury WC/Hawkeye WC)
LOSS Bekhbayar Erdenebat (Mongolia), 4-7

61 kg/134 lbs. – Jimmy Kennedy, Ann Arbor, Mich. (New York AC/Cliff Keen WC)
WIN Hamka Hamka (Indonesia), 10-0
LOSS Andrei Perpelita (Moldova), 4-6

65 kg/143 lbs. – Brent Metcalf, Iowa City, Iowa (New York AC/Hawkeye WC)
WIN Yun-Seok Lee (Korea), 11-0
LOSS Mustafa Kaya (Turkey), 4-6

70 kg/154 lbs. – Nick Marable, Morgantown, W.Va. (Sunkist Kids)
WIN Akzurek Tantarov (Kazakhstan), 2-1
WIN Grigor Grigoryan (Armenia), 4-2
LOSS Ali Shabanov (Belarus), 5-2

74 kg/163 lbs. – Jordan Burroughs, Lincoln, Neb. (Sunkist Kids/Nebraska Wrestling TC)
WIN Augusto Midana (Guinea Bisau), 4-3
WIN Yunseok Lee (Korea), 13-2
WIN Rashid Kurbanov (Uzbekistan), 5-0
LOSS Denis Tsargush (Russia), 2-9
vs. Rustam Dudaev (Ukraine) in bronze-medal match

86 kg/189 lbs. – Ed Ruth, State College, Pa. (Nittany Lion WC)
WIN Yusup Melejaev (Turkmenistan), 12-2
LOSS Askari Mohammadian (Iran), 4-7

97 kg/213 lbs. – Jake Varner, State College, Pa. (Nittany Lion WC)
WIN William Harth (Germany), 7-0
LOSS Valeri Andriitsev (Ukraine), 3-5

125 kg/275 lbs. – Tervel Dlagnev, Columbus, Ohio (Sunkist Kids/Ohio RTC) – Bronze Medal
WIN Aleksandr Romanov (Moldova), 11-1
WIN Soslan Gagloev (Slovakia), 5-0
LOSS Taha Akgul (Turkey), 2-4
WIN Aslan Dzebisov (Azerbaijan), 3-1
WIN Alexei Shemarov (Belarus), 2-1

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