Alexandrin Gutu of Moldavia is a win away from becoming the first three-time U23 world champion after he reached the 82kg final in Novi Sad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gutu, wrestling at the U23 Worlds for the fifth time, reached the his fourth straight final after beating Ibrahim Tabaev of Belgium in the semifinals. Gutu won gold medals in 2023 and 2024 and has a silver medal from 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He began with a takedown before adding a stepout for a 3-0 lead. The par terre gave him one more point and he threw Tabaev out-of-bounds for one more point and lead 5-0. The second period saw him add one stepout as he won the semifinal 6-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For his third straight gold medal, Gutu will face Ruslan Abdiev of Ukraine who defeated Data Chkaidze of Georgia 1-1, in the other semifinal, thanks to the first-point criteria in a 1-1 finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the 60kg category, Japan’s Koto Gomi will try to end the six-year gold medal drought for Japan after he reached the 60kg final on Wednesday after a dominant performance. He faced Maxwell Black of the USA in the semifinals and like his previous bouts, he began by scoring as soon as the match began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An arm-drag to takedown gave him a 2-0 lead before he got the par terre position and scored three rolls using high gut-wrench and win 9-0. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He will face Sajjad Abbaspour of Iran for gold after he made a remarkable comeback in the final 20 seconds. Down 3-1 against Mehroj Bakhramov of Uzbekistan, Abbaspour scored a stepout which was also called fleeing with 13 seconds left. However, Bakhramov still held the criteria at 3-3 as he had a two-point move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Abbaspour did not give up and scored another stepout with five seconds left, giving him a match-winning 4-3 lead. Uzbekistan challenged it but only to lose it and add one more point to Abbaspour’s score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 5-3 defeat left the teenager Bakhramov in tears while the Iran corner celebrated the unexpected win in the semifinals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
American Audrey Jiminez will get another chance of winning her first-ever world title after she reached the women’s 50kg finals after posting a controlled 5-2 win against Aida Kerymova of Ukraine in the semifinals. Jiminez, who had four age-group world silver medals, scored a takedown and one turn in the second period to overcome a 2-1 deficit and post the win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She will face Jinyue Liang of China for that much-awaited gold after Liang saw off Natalia Pudova (UWW) in the other semifinal. Liang scored a takedown in the second period to lead 2-1 and then got in scramble which that scored two points each. She then hit a headlock for four to make the score 8-3, her winning score in the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Former U20 world champion Jasmine Robinson of the USA reached the final in the women’s 72kg with her third technical superiority win in three bouts. She defeated former U17 world champion Veronika Vilk of Croatia, 10-0, in the semifinals using her trademark double blasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nurzat Nurtaeva of Kyrgyzstan will look to stop Robinson from winning her first U23 world title after she reached the final at 72kg after beating Mahiro Yoshitake of Japan 6-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Returning champion at women’s 72kg, Kylie Welker of the USA, who moved up to 76kg, reached the final after a 16-6 technical superiority win over Edna Jiminez Villalba of Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Welker began with a four-pointer before two turns made it 8-0. But Villalba also hit a four-pointer to cut the lead to 8-4. She then had Welker in danger to make it 8-6 bit a reversal and three lace turns tilted the semifinal 15-6 in favor to Welker, who scored a stepout in the second period for the win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She will take on returning bronze medalist Valeriia Trifonova (UWW) who posted a 4-1 win over Elmira Yasinof Turkey in the other semifinal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Greco-Roman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 60kg<\/strong> SF 1: Koto GOMI (JPN) df. Maxwell BLACK (USA), 9-0 82kg<\/strong> SF 1: Alexandrin GUTU (MDA) df. Ibrahim TABAEV (BEL), 6-0 Women’s Wrestling<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 50kg<\/strong> SF 1: Audrey JIMENEZ (USA) df. Aida KERYMOVA (UKR), 5-2 72kg<\/strong> SF 1: Jasmine ROBINSON (USA) df. Veronika VILK (CRO), 10-0 76kg<\/strong> SF 1: Valeriia TRIFONOVA (UWW) df. Elmira YASIN (TUR), 4-1 Alexandrin Gutu of Moldavia is a win away from becoming the first three-time U23 world champion after he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-5037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-wrestling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/82kg_gr_-_alexandrin_gutu_mda_df._reon_kakegawa_jpn_3981.jpg",1300,731,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/82kg_gr_-_alexandrin_gutu_mda_df._reon_kakegawa_jpn_3981-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/82kg_gr_-_alexandrin_gutu_mda_df._reon_kakegawa_jpn_3981-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/82kg_gr_-_alexandrin_gutu_mda_df._reon_kakegawa_jpn_3981-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/82kg_gr_-_alexandrin_gutu_mda_df._reon_kakegawa_jpn_3981-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/82kg_gr_-_alexandrin_gutu_mda_df._reon_kakegawa_jpn_3981.jpg",1300,731,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/82kg_gr_-_alexandrin_gutu_mda_df._reon_kakegawa_jpn_3981.jpg",1300,731,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/82kg_gr_-_alexandrin_gutu_mda_df._reon_kakegawa_jpn_3981-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/82kg_gr_-_alexandrin_gutu_mda_df._reon_kakegawa_jpn_3981-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Newsbeat<\/a>","tag_info":"Newsbeat","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/82kg_gr_-_alexandrin_gutu_mda_df._reon_kakegawa_jpn_3981.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5039,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037\/revisions\/5039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
GOLD: Koto GOMI (JPN) vs. Sajjad ABBASPOUR (IRI)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SF 2: Sajjad ABBASPOUR (IRI) df. Mehroj BAKHRAMOV (UZB), 5-3<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GOLD: Alexandrin GUTU (MDA) vs. Ruslan ABDIIEV (UKR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SF 2: Ruslan ABDIIEV (UKR) df. Data CHKHAIDZE (GEO), 1-1<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GOLD: Audrey JIMENEZ (USA) vs. Jinyue LIANG (CHN)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SF 2: Jinyue LIANG (CHN) df. Natalia PUDOVA (UWW), 8-3<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GOLD: Jasmine ROBINSON (USA) vs. Nurzat NURTAEVA (KGZ)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SF 2: Nurzat NURTAEVA (KGZ) df. Mahiro YOSHITAKE (JPN), 6-3<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GOLD: Valeriia TRIFONOVA (UWW) vs. Kylie WELKER (USA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SF 2: Kylie WELKER (USA) df. Edna JIMENEZ VILLALBA (MEX), 16-6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"