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Live Blog: Senior World Championships Day 4 - WW 50kg, 53kg, 65kg, 76kg

Tuesday, October 5, 2021 - 07:54 By Vinay Siwach

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All the talk will be about women's wrestling Tuesday as 50kg, 53kg, 65kg and 76kg wrestler take the mat at the senior World Championships here in Oslo, Norway. Tokyo Olympians, age-group world champion, future stars will try their fate at the Jordan Amfi arena. If you missed the action on Monday, here's the wrap -- Burroughs wins 5th world title

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1305: Results of WW 53kg quarterfinals

Katarzyna KRAWCZYK (POL) df Emma MALMGREN (SWE), via fall
Akari FUJINAMI (JPN) df Luisa VALVERDE MELENDRES (ECU), 10-0
Khrystyna BEREZA (UKR) df Zeynep YETGIL (TUR), 6-3
Iulia LEORDA (MDA) df Samantha STEWART (CAN), 10-4

1255: Results of WW 76kg quarterfinals

Aiperi MEDET KYZY (KGZ) df Marina SUROVTSEVA (RWF), 10-0
Samar HAMZA (EGY) df Yasuha MATSUYUKI (JPN), 4-2
Epp MAEE (EST) df Zagardulam NAIGALSUREN (MGL), 12-2
Adeline GRAY (USA) df KIRAN (IND), via fall

1240: Results of WW 65kg quarterfinals

Mimi HRISTOVA (BUL) df Asli DEMIR (TUR), 7-2
Irina RINGACI (MDA) df Malin MATTSSON (SWE), 6-2
Forrest MOLINARI (USA) df Koumba LARROQUE (FRA), 3-3
Miwa MORIKAWA (JPN) df Aina TEMIRTASSOVA (KAZ), 6-2

1230: Results of WW 50kg quarterfinals

Nadezhda SOKOLOVA (RWF) df Hanny KUMARI (IND), 10-0
Remina YOSHIMOTO (JPN) df Otgonjargal DOLGORJAV (MGL), via fall
Emilia VUC (ROU) df Madison PARKS (CAN), 14-3
Sarah HILDEBRANDT (USA) df Lisa ERSEL (GER), 10-0

1220: We are ready for the quarterfinals at WW 50kg. That will be followed by 65kg, 76kg and then 53kg

1155: Five-time world champion Adeline GRAY (USA) gets going with a fall on Mat D. In the freestyle, Iran has dropped out of the team title race after Erfan ELAHI (IRI) lost the repechage bout at 70kg

1141: Koumba LARROQUE (FRA) with a takedown in the final second to beat Tetiana RIZKHO (UKR) 4-3 and advance to the quarterfinals.

1140: Rio Olympics silver medalist Maryia MAMASHUK (BLR) is up against Miwa MORIKAWA (JPN) on Mat B at 65kg. Meanwhile, Larroque has cut the lead to 3-2 with a takedown

1130: Huge match on Mat C. Koumba LARROQUE (FRA) is up against Tetiana RIZKHO (UKR). On Mat A, Forrest MOLINARI (USA) defeats Dinara KUDAEVA SALIKHOVA (RWF) 10-0 at 65kg. Rizkho is leading Larroque 3-0

1115: Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist doesn't take time to get her first win. A takedown and lace from her to get a 10-0 win over Bohdana KOKOZEI YASHCHUK (UKR)

1100: In a battle of Tokyo Olympians, Elis MONOLOVA (AZE) and Koumba LARROQUE (FRA), the latter wins a snooze-fest 1-1 after claiming the criteria with the latest point

1030: Nothing could have been a better start to a women's wrestling day than a Japanese winning a bout in just 25-second technical superiority. Former cadet world champion Remina YOSHIMOTO (JPN) completes a 10-0 win over Gabija DILYTE (LTU). 

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Mesenbrink takes steady steps to win U23 Worlds gold

Saturday, October 25, 2025 - 17:22 By Vinay Siwach

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NOVI SAD, Serbia (October 25) -- Mitchell MESENBRINK (USA) remembers his last year's U23 World Championships campaign. He won a bronze medal, left Tirana a little frustrated and missing his training room in Penn State.

With lessons from that tournament and surrounded by his Penn State teammates and coaches, Mesenbrink made sure he did not return home without a medal. The former U20 world champion became U23 world champion after beating Halit OZMUS (TUR), 12-2, in the 74kg final.

Mesenbrink was a leg-attack machine in the final and Ozmus did little to defend those, giving up the final in 2:59, just on the stroke of the break.

"It's just about constantly getting better, technically, and emotionally, too," Mesenbrink said. "If I'm just running in there, trying to grab onto his head, he can get in. So just being able to constantly improve. I think that's a strong testament to the people around me and to the coaches that I have and the teammates that I have at Penn State."

Seven wrestler out of the 10 on the United States Freestyle team are part of the same training center -- the Nittany Lions Wrestling Club, Penn State, which Mesenbrink said made a lot of difference this year.

"It's fun, because last year I came by myself. It was just me at the U23s. So it was fun this year that we had seven out of 10 guys," he said. "Last year, I knew the guys, but it wasn't my teammates, right? Now it's my teammates, the guys that I'm literally in the room with every day. We go over and it's almost like, are we even in Serbia right now? It feels like we're in America, because we got so many guys here."

In Tirana, the American wrestler lost to Kota TAKAHASHI (JPN) in the quarterfinals but bounced back to win the bronze medal. But in Novi Sad on Friday, Mesenbrink faced Yoshinosuke AOYAGI (JPN) in the semifinals and came out on top 6-4, with a buzzer beating takedown.

The win boasted Mesenbrink's confidence who was close to make the U.S. senior team for World Championships in Zagreb where Takahashi won gold, but lost to David CARR (USA) domestically.

However, that loss made Mesenbrink think about his aims and how he wants to improve his wrestling on the mat.

"I think the big thing of not making the world team, it was just, I got to get better in those specific areas," he said. "That's the most fun part. I thought this is all this is, is a title. This is gonna be fading so quick. So I thought I'm going to go out there and I'm going to work on the things that I've been working on and I've been working really hard since Final X to get those improvements."

Mobin AZIMI (IRI)Mobin AZIMI (IRI) celebrates after winning the 92kg gold medal. (Photo: United World Wrestling / Kostadin Andonov)

In the only other final of Freestyle, Mobin AZIMI (IRI) earned the first gold medal for Iran after beating Takhir KHANIEV (UWW), 5-3, in the 92kg final. Azimi broken Khaniev down in the final and scored three stepout points to win the gold medal.

RESULTS

74kg
GOLD: Mitchell MESENBRINK (USA) df. Halit OZMUS (TUR), 12-2

BRONZE: Yoshinosuke AOYAGI (JPN) df. PARVINDER (IND), 8-2
BRONZE: Manuel WAGIN (GER) df. Magomed KHANIEV (AZE), 8-4

92kg
GOLD: Mobin AZIMI (IRI) df. Takhir KHANIEV (UWW), 5-3

BRONZE: Sherzod POYONOV (UZB) df. Ivan CHORNOHUZ (UKR), 11-1
BRONZE: Magomed SHARIPOV (BRN) df. Ion DEMIAN (MDA), 10-0

Semifinals

57kg
GOLD: Yuta KIKUCHI (JPN) vs. Luke LILLEDAHL (USA)

SF 1: Yuta KIKUCHI (JPN) df. Nodirbek JUMANAZAROV (UZB), 6-1
SF 2: Luke LILLEDAHL (USA) df. Aiandai ONDAR (UWW), 7-1

70kg
GOLD: Kanan HEYBATOV (AZE) vs. Sina KHALILI (IRI)

SF 1: Kanan HEYBATOV (AZE) df. PJ DUKE (USA), 14-4
SF 2: Sina KHALILI (IRI) df. Alexandr GAIDARLI (MDA), 8-2

79kg
GOLD: Ibrahim YAPRAK (TUR) vs. Levi HAINES (USA)

SF 1: Ibrahim YAPRAK (TUR) df. Nikita DMITRIJEVS MAYEUSKI (UWW), 5-2
SF 2: Levi HAINES (USA) df. Davud DAUDOV (UWW), 11-4

125kg
GOLD: Abolfazl MOHAMMAD NEZHAD (IRI) vs. Khetag KARSANOV (AZE)

SF 1: Abolfazl MOHAMMAD NEZHAD (IRI) df. Khabib DAVUDGADZHIEV (UWW), 5-0
SF 2: Khetag KARSANOV (AZE) df. Daniel HERRERA (USA), 12-2