Diakomihalis goes for gold, Webster for bronze in freestyle at UWW Cadet Worlds SOURCE: www.teamusa.org August 29, 2015
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzogovina - Yianni Diakomihalis of New York has reached the gold medal finals at 58 kg/127.75 at the UWW Cadet World Championships on Saturday. He will face Jintaro Motoyama of Japan in the gold-medal match.
The finals begin at 12:00 noon. Eastern time. United World Wrestling is providing a live stream and results, which can be found at https://unitedworldwrestling.org/event/world-championships-2. Diakomihalis needed four victories to reach the finals. He opened with three dominant wins, scoring a technical fall over Maksat Talkambaev of Kyrgyzstan, a pin over 2013 Cadet World silver medalist Fazil Hasanov of Azerbaijan and a technical fall over Dymytro Mykhniuk of Ukraine in the quarterfinals. He drew Soslan Guchakov of Russia in the semifinals, Guchakov scored the first takedown after being put on the shot clock. In the closing seconds of the first period, Diakomihalis scored a takedown to tie it at 2-2. Diakomihalis scored a takedown midway in the second period for a 4-2 lead, but Guchakov tied it up at 4-4. In the closing seconds, Diakomihalis scored big on a scramble to close out the 10-5 win. Diakomihalis was a 2014 Cadet Nationals runner-up and won the 2015 UWW Cadet Nationals. Comments |