2024-05-12 08:37:53
Magomed Ramazanov is the fifth with an Olympic quota for Bulgarian wrestling, after in cat. up to 86kg in the freestyle had a fantastic tournament at the qualifiers in Istanbul and won his qualifier against world runner-up Vladimiri Gamkrelidze (Georgia) in the closing seconds of the bout.
The naturalized Dagestani is the first Olympian for Bulgaria in freestyle. Before him, Semyon Novikov and Hayk Mnatsakanyan won quotas for the Paris Games in the classical style, as well as Bilyana Dudova and Yuliana Yaneva in the ladies.
Gamkrelidze took a 2-1 lead at the break and added another at the start of the second half, but Ramazanov didn’t give up. He returned two points 2:04 minutes before the end and equalized, and at 3:3 the Georgian still had the lead because our wrestler had a warning for a rough action. However, the Bulgarian national caught it and took two more points just four seconds before the end of the final 5:3 and fifth Bulgarian quota for Paris 2024.
Georgi Vangelov will participate in the 57 kg freestyle repechage on Sunday, while Georgi Ivanov is waiting to be withdrawn.