Wrestling Olympic Updates: Gomez Falls to Azerbaijan in 65kg Preliminary Round
8/5/2024 12:19:00 PM | Wrestling, Olympics
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Saturday, Aug. 10
Austin Gomez fell 7-0 in his preliminary match at 65kg freestyle to Azerbaijan's Haji Aliyev in his Olympic debut at Champ de Mars Arena. Aliyev, a three-time world champion and two-time Olympic medalist, then dropped his quarterfinal to reigning world champion Ismail Musukaev of Hungary to eliminate Gomez from the competition. Gomez trailed narrowly 2-0 at the break after shot-clock point and stepout in the first period before Aliyev doubled his lead with a go-behind takedown midway through the second and added another stepout and takedown with Gomez pressing in the final minute.
• Austin Gomez (Freestyle 65kg): 0-1 (eliminated)
» Round of 16 vs. Haji Aliyev, Azerbaijan, 7-0
• Results and Video (NBC Olympics)
Friday, Aug. 9
Myles Amine lost a 5-4 heartbreaker to Greece's Dauren Kurugliev in the 86kg bronze-medal match at Champ de Mars Arena to take fifth place in his second Olympic appearance. Amine controlled the action early but could not finish on a pair of low single-leg shots. Kurugliev scored a takedown on the shot clock with a minute left in the first period and added two exposure points out of a scramble off another Amine shot in the second. Amine scored four points in the final 10 seconds of the match, scoring a takedown then a stepout and caution-and-one off a single-leg attack on the restart. Trailing on criteria, Amine's corner challenged in search of a takedown but lost, giving Kurugliev an additional point.
Mason Parris dropped his first bout 10-5 at 125kg freestyle to Mongolia's Lkhagvagerel Munkhtur and was eliminated when Munkhtur fell in his subsequent match. Parris led 3-1 early in the second period on a single-leg takedown and stepout -- that likely should have been called a takedown. Munkhtur took the lead on a four-pointer on the edge and tacked on a lost-challenge point, then added a stepout and another takedown to surge to a seven-point lead. Parris scored on a single leg in the final :45 but could not score again.
• Myles Amine (Freestyle 86kg): 2-2 (5th place)
» Bronze-Medal Match vs. Dauren Kurugliev, Greece, 5-4
• Mason Parris (Freestyle 125kg): 0-1 (eliminated)
» Round of 16 vs. Lkhagvagerel Munkhtur, Mongolia, 10-5
• Results and Video (NBC Olympics)
Thursday, Aug. 8
Myles Amine posted a 2-1 record to advance to an 86kg bronze-medal match at Champ de Mars Arena. Amine fell to Iran's Hassan Yazdani 7-1 in the semifinals, scoring the first point before allowing four stepouts and a single-leg takedown and leg turk. Yazdani was the 2016 Olympic gold medalist at 86kg the Rio Games and is now a three-time Olympic finalist.
Amine won comfortably, 7-4, in his first bout then took a 16-14 barn burner against Azerbaijan's Osman Nurmagomedov in the quarterfinals. Amine struck early in that bout, scoring on a single leg in the opening 15 seconds, but Nurmagomedov took an 8-5 lead into the break after scoring on a low-single takedown and two leg laces. Amine scored nine points in the opening minute of the second period, on an early go behind then a low single with two laces of his own. Nurmagomedov narrowed the gap with a pair stepouts and a takedown before Amine all but iced it with another single-leg takedown in the final 30 seconds.
Amine will face the winner of the repechage match between Greece's Dauren Kurugliev and Australia's Jayden Lawrence in his bronze-medal match Friday (Aug.9). Amine previously captured 86kg bronze at the Tokyo Games.
• Myles Amine (Freestyle 86kg): 2-1 (advances to bronze match)
» Round of 16 vs. Vasyl Mykhailov, Ukraine (W, 7-4)
» Quarterfinal vs. Osman Nurmagomedov, Azerbaijan (W, 16-14)
» Semifinal vs. Hassan Yazdani, Iran (L, 7-1)
• Results and Video (NBC Olympics)
Monday, Aug. 5
Making his Olympic debut, Adam Coon dropped his opening-round bout at 130kg Greco-Roman to Iran's Amin Mirzazadeh 3-1 at Champ de Mars Arena. Mirzazadeh is the reigning world champion at 130kg Greco and a two-time world finalist. Coon, representing the United States, gave up a passivity point and gut wrench midway through the first period to trail 3-0 at the break. He earned his own passivity point in the second but could not turn Mirzazadeh. Coon was eliminated from the competition when the Iranian wrestler fell in the quarterfinals 3-1 to Cuba's nine-time Olympic/world champion Mijaín López, who is going after his record fifth Olympic gold.
Stevan Micic, the reigning world champion at 57kg freestyle, announced early Monday morning that he was withdrawing from the Olympic competition due to a knee injury suffered in training in July.
• Adam Coon (Greco-Roman 130kg): 0-1 (eliminated)
» Round of 16 vs. Amin Mirzazadeh, Iran (L, 3-1)
• Stevan Micic (Freestyle 57kg): Withdrawn due to injury
• Results and Video (NBC Olympics)
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