Turner and Whiting Qualify for Repechage at U20 World Championships

The third day of the U20 World Championships, from Bratislava, Slovakia, featured the final medal matches in Greco-Roman and the first session of women’s freestyle bouts. Although no American wrestlers came away with medals, two women are in position to do so on Wednesday.

Morgan Turner (50 kg) and Taylor Whiting (53 kg) each need a win during tomorrow morning’s repechage round and another in the bronze medal match to claim hardware.

The two-time U17 world champion, Turner, posted a win in the Round of 16 despite giving up the first points. India’s Parveen countered a Turner shot for the opening takedown and later scored two points from exposure after a headlock. Turner maneuvered out of the headlock and managed to turn the situation to a cradle of her own. She never relinquished the position and secured a fall in 1:28.

In her next bout, Turner was beaten by Japan’s Yuu Katsume, 11-0. Katsume is a 2024 U17 world champion. During that run, she also teched Turner in the semifinals. It was the only appearance for Turner at the U17 World Championships without a gold medal.

Turner will have to wait and see who her opponent is after a round of repechage action.

Whiting’s first bout of the tournament came in the Round of 16 against Canada’s Kaura Coles. Coles was up 10-1 when she pinned Whiting in the second period. The Canadian needed to stage a remarkable semifinal comeback against China’s Yuxuan Li in order to pull Whiting back into repechage. Coles trailed 7-4 after one period, but reeled off 10 unanswered points in the second to win, 14-7.

Coles’ win sets up a repechage match tomorrow morning for Whiting against India’s Muskan. When Muskan faced Coles, she only lost via a 9-7 margin.

In Greco-Roman, Manny Saldate (60 kg) and Arvin Khosravy (82 kg) both started their tournaments on Tuesday, but fell in their first match. Both have been eliminated from medal contention.

The lone Greco-Roman wrestler in the repechage rounds on Tuesday was Amryn Nutter at 67 kg. Nutter posted a 5-2 win over Germany’s Sebastian Wagner to advance to the second set of repechage matches. Unfortunately, that’s where his tournament would come to an end. Nutter suffered a 1-1 loss to Egypt’s Mohamed Abdelrehim in a match in which all the scoring came via passivity points. Abdelrehim prevailed because his was the final score.

Final Results 

55 kg

Gold Medal Match: Armin Shamsipourhaji (Iran) over Koba Karumidze (Georgia)  12-2

Bronze Medal Match: Khojiakbar Kuchkarov (Uzbekistan) over Maxim Sarmanov (Moldova)  9-1

Bronze Medal Match: Emin Javadli (Azerbaijan) over Hiro Sakamoto (Japan)  11-1

67 kg

Gold Medal Match: Kazybek Kalmagambetov (Kazakhstan) over Mikhail Markouski (Belarus)  13-7

Bronze Medal Match: Petro Zhytovoz (Ukraine) over Mohamed Abdelrehim (Egypt)  11-3

Bronze Medal Match: Yurik Mkhitaryan (Armenia) over Iliya Alikhani (Iran)  Fall 1:16

72 kg

Gold Medal Match: Mingiian Goriaev (Russia) over Salih Yazici (Turkiye)  12-3

Bronze Medal Match: Behruzbek Valiev (Uzbekistan) over Gor Khachatryan (Armenia)  7-7

Bronze Medal Match: Mohamed Ibrahim (Egypt) over Jorge Gomez Garcia (Mexico)  6-0

97 kg

Gold Medal Match: Yehor Yakushenko (Ukraine) over Ilia Komarov (Russia)  4-1

Bronze Medal Match: Pauli Perkioe (Finland) over Fakhrikamol Komiljonov (Uzbekistan)  9-0

Bronze Medal Match: Arman Mkrtchyan (Armenia) over Vendel Vitai (Hungary)  1-1

Wednesday’s Finals Matchups

Greco-Roman

60 kg

Gold Medal Matchup Aykhan Javadov (Azerbaijan) vs. Dostonbek Oripov (Uzbekistan)

82 kg

Gold Medal Matchup: Kiryl Valeuski (Belarus) vs. Ramazan Nekhai (Russia)
 

Women’s Freestyle

50 kg

Gold Medal Matchup: Yuu Katsume (Japan) vs. Margarita Iarygina (Russia)

53 kg

Gold Medal Matchup: Kaura Coles (Canada) vs. Alexa Alvarez Valenzuela (Venezuela)

72 kg

Gold Medal Matchup: Tanu Sharma (India) vs. Chisato Yoshida (Japan)

American Results

Greco-Roman

60 kg

Round of 32: Magomed Varaev (France) over Manny Saldate  6-4
 

67 kg

Repechage: Amryn Nutter over Sebastian Wagner (Germany)  5-2

Repechage: Mohamed Abdelrehim (Egypt) over Amryn Nutter  1-1
 

82 kg

Round of 16: Bekmurod Rustamov (Uzbekistan) over Arvin Khosravy  8-6
 

Women’s Freestyle

50 kg

Round of 16: Morgan Turner over Parveen (India)  Fall 1:28

Quarterfinals: Yuu Katsume (Japan) over Morgan Turner  11-0

Repechage Matchup: Morgan Turner vs. Josephine Wrensch (Germany)/Serineh Crane (Armenia)

53 kg

Round of 16: Kaura Coles (Canada) over Taylor Whiting  Fall 3:45

Repechage Matchup: Taylor Whiting vs. Muskan (India)
 

72 kg

Quarterfinals: Khrystyna Demchuk (Ukraine) over Gretchen Donally  4-3

Tomorrow’s American Women’s Freestyle Matchups

55 kg

Everest Leydecker vs. Hansika Lamba (India)

62 kg

Bella Williams vs. Gabriela Rudoi (Moldova)
 

65 kg

Riley Hanrahan vs. Vasiliki Karavanou (Greece)
 

76 kg

Piper Fowler vs. Evelin Ujhelji (Serbia)