Tokyo: Indian wrestler Ravi Dahiya made a confident start to his Olympics campaign, winning by technical superiority against Colombia’s Tigreros Urbano to reach the men’s freestyle 57kg quarterfinals.
He recorded a 13-2 win over the Colombian wrestler.
The fourth-seeded Indian consistently attacked the right leg of his opponent and apart from conceding a take-down in the first period, he remained dominant.
Dahiya, the reigning Asian champion, nailed the win with one minute and 10 seconds still remaining in the bout, which was stopped after he raced to a winning 13-2 lead.
Dahiya will next face Bulgaria’s Georgi Valentinov Vangelov.
