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Three Reigning World Champs Make Tuesday Night’s Semifinals

Tuesday, September 18, 2018 - 13:58 By Eric Olanowski

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TRNAVA, Slovakia (September 18) - Reigning junior world champions Kerem KAMAL (TUR), Amin KAVIYANINEJAD (IRI), and Aleksandr KOMAROV (RUS) all moved into Tuesday night’s Trnava Greco-Roman semifinals. 

A noticeably larger Kamal, up from his 2017 World Championship weight of 55kg made the 60kg semifinals with three wins on Tuesday morning.

He only surrendered one point in his first two matches before edging junior European bronze medalist, Ararat MANUCHARYAN (ARM), 5-3 to make the semifinals. 

In the semifinals, Karem will see three-time world representative, Razvan ARNAUT (ROU).  

 Reigning world champion, Amin KAVIYANINEJAD (IRI). Photo Max Rose-Fyne. 

Meanwhile, the second reigning world champion Amin Kaviyaninejad barely broke a sweat, cruising to the 72kg semifinals while outscoring his opponents 25-0. 

He’ll wrestle Russia’s three-time world team representative Magomed YARBILOV for a spot in tomorrow night’s finals. 

The third Tampere world champion to make Tuesday night's semifinals was three-time reigning world champion, Aleksandr Komarov. 

Komarov shutout his first two opponents 18-0, including a 10-0 win over reigning cadet world finalist Istvan TAKACS (HUN) before moving into the quarterfinals. 

In the quarterfinals, Komarov narrowly squeaked past Iran’s Hosein FOROUZANDEH (IRI), 3-2. Komarov trailed 2-0 with less than 10 seconds left when Forouzandeh was penalized two points for a clear leg-foul. The Iranian coaches challenged the call and lost, giving Komarov his third point, and the 3-2 victory. 

Komarov will meet Georgia's Aivengo RIKADZE on Tuesday night for a spot in his fourth straight age-level World Championship.

SEMIFINALS
60kg
Ali Reza Ayat Ollah NEJATI (IRI) vs. Vijay VIJAY (IND) 
Kerem KAMAL (TUR) vs. Razvan ARNAUT (ROU) 

67kg
Malkhas AMOYAN (ARM) vs. Ismail GUN (TUR) 
Makhmud BAKHSHILLOEV (UZB) vs. Mohamed ELSAYED (EGY) 

72kg
Magomed YARBILOV (RUS) vs. Amin Yavar KAVIYANINEJAD (IRI) 
Minto MAEDA (JPN) vs. Nikoloz TCHIKAIDZE (GEO) 

82kg
Aleksandr Andreevitch KOMAROV (RUS) vs. Aivengo RIKADZE (GEO) 
Muhutdin SARICICEK (TUR) vs. Andrew Douglas BERREYESA (USA) 

92kg
Markus RAGGINGER (AUT) vs. Balint VATZI (HUN) 
Arvi Martin SAVOLAINEN (FIN) vs. Illia LAURYNOVICH (BLR) 

Larroque Cruises to Semifinals, Russia and Japan Insert Four

Thursday, September 20, 2018 - 12:37 By Eric Olanowski

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TRNAVA, Slovakia (September 20) - Koumba LARROQUE (FRA), the three-time age level world champion cruised to the 72kg junior world semifinals for the second time in her career. This is Larroque's second time competing in the Junior World Championships. Her first trip was back in 2016 when she brought home the gold medal.

Larroque wrestled Karuna KARUNA (IND) in the opening round and finished the match early, outscoring the Indian wrestler 10-0 in the opening period. The French superstar dominated Kamila KULWICKA (POL), 10-0, making tonight’s semifinals where she’ll meet Anastasiya ZIMIANKOVA (BLR).

This semifinals matchup is a rematch of the 2018 U23 European championship gold-medal bout. A match that Larroque used three stepouts and a passivity point to win, 4-0. 

Umi IMAI (JPN) finishes a leg-lace in her quarterfinals matchup against Russia. Photo by Max Rose-Fyne. 

Meanwhile, Japan and Russia each inserted four wrestlers into tonight’s semifinals. More importantly, they’ll meet each other in two of those semifinal bouts. 

At 53kg, 2018 junior Asian champion Umi IMAI (JPN) will wrestle Mariia TIUMEREKOVA (RUS), and 2016 cadet world champion Atena KODAMA (JPN) will take on 2018 junior European bronze medalist Daria BOBRULKO (RUS) for a spot in the 62kg finals. 

The semifinals will begin at 17:15 and will be followed by the women's wrestling finals which begin at 18:00. 

SEMIFINALS 

53kg 
Umi IMAI (JPN) vs. Mariia TIUMEREKOVA (RUS) 
Alisha Sue HOWK (USA) vs. Aktenge KEUNIMJAEVA (UZB)

57kg
Andoriahanako SAWA (JPN) vs. Mansi MANSI (IND) 
Qi ZHANG (CHN) vs. Viktoriia VAULINA (RUS)

62kg
Aurora CAMPAGNA (ITA) vs. Nabira ESENBAEVA (UZB) 
Atena KODAMA (JPN) vs. Daria BOBRULKO (RUS)

65kg
Asli DEMIR (TUR) vs. Delgermaa ENKHSAIKHAN (MGL) 
Miyu IMAI (JPN) vs. Veranika EISMANT (BLR)

72kg
Koumba Selene Fanta LARROQUE (FRA) vs. Fanwen SHEN (CHN) 
Evgeniia ZAKHARCHENKO (RUS) vs. Anastasiya ZIMIANKOVA (BLR)