The wrestling bout between Pailwan Rohit Dalal of New Delhi and Pailwan Appasab of Belagavi at the Dasara Traditional Wrestling Tournament organised as part of Dasara festival at D. Devaraj Urs Multipurpose Stadium yesterday, ended in a tie after a hour-long bout.

The attacks and counter attacks by both the Pailwans caught the spectators spellbound. Although Pailwan Rohit Dalal gained an upper hand in the beginning, Pailwan Appasab came back strongly in the second half to neutralise                             Dalal.

Finally, the bout was declared as a tie, after Pailwan Rohit Dalal suffered injuries nearly one hour into the bout.

Also, Pailwan Ramu of Ganjam and Pailwan Tejas of Bogadi were declared winners by default, as the opponents                      were absent.

Greko-Roman  style Wrestling

55 kg category: S. Prateek of Bengaluru Rural – First, Rudresh Kugaji of Belagavi – Second and Ajit R. Chougole of                               Belagavi – Third.

60 kg: Prabhakar of Bengaluru – 1st, Shivappa Jambagi of Belagavi – 2nd and Ramanna Kalagabkar of Belagavi – 3rd.

63 kg: Eshwar S. Daangi of Belagavi – 1st, Jyotiba P. Jambre of Belagavi – 2nd and A. Ranganath of Bengaluru                               Rural – 3rd.

67 kg: Hucchappa R. Jiddimani of Bengaluru Rural – 1st, T. Marappa of Belagavi – 2nd and Shravan Haadimani                                  of Belagavi – 3rd.

72 kg: Shivanand S. Bangi of Belagavi – 1st, E. Sanjay of Bengaluru Rural – 2nd and Praveen Hippargi of Kalaburagi – 3rd.

77 kg: Paramanand of Belagavi – 1st, Lakshman B. Savalagi of Bengaluru – 2nd place and Mubarak N. Ankali of Belagavi – 3rd.

82 kg: S. Pankaj Kumar of Bengaluru – 1st, Gopal Tanvashi of Belagavi – 2nd and Hanamani N. Channal of Bengaluru – 3rd.

87 kg: Anand of Bengaluru – 1st, Hussain Ulla of Belagavi – 2nd and Aditya Bedkyale of Belagavi – 3rd.

97 kg: Shivaiah Poojari of Belagavi – 1st, N. Kenchappa of Bengaluru – 2nd and M.S. Sawaroop of Bengaluru – 3rd.

97-130 kg: Madhusudan of Bengaluru – 1st, R. Srishail of Bengaluru – 2nd and Beeresh Langoti of Belagavi – 3rd.

Results : Traditional Wrestling

Winner                                                                       Loser

Chandan of Ittigegud, Mysuru                         Siddu of Dharwad

Sanjay of Adalli                                                       Vishwa of Nanjangud

Harshith of Shankarapura                                   Manchanna of Udbur

Tejas of Bogadi                                                       Shivu of Mahadevapura

Manjunath of Nanjangud                                   Shivu of Ittigegud

N. Manoj Prasad of Alanahalli                           Shivaraj of Nanjangud

Hemanth Kumar                                                     Durga Prasad of Kanakapura

Cheluvaraj of Bannur                                           Tejas of Pandavapura

Jeevan of Palahalli                                                 Satya of Rammanahalli

Vijay of Mahadevapura                                       Chinnu of Nagarle

Mahadevaswamy of Nanjangud                     Dilip of Ittigegud

Upendra of Rammanahalli                                 Nataraj of Hosabandikeri