Day 2 Yarygin results

61kg Men

1. Akhmed CHAKAEV (RUS)
2. Gadzhimurad RASHIDOV (RUS)
3. Viktor RASSADIN (RUS)
3. Rei HIGUCHI (JPN)

86kg Men

1. Dauren KURUGLIEV (RUS)
2. Mahammasjavad EBRAHIMIZIVLAEI (IRI)
3. Vladislav VALIEV (RUS)
3. Ahmed MAGAMAEV (RUS)

125kg Men

1. Alan Khugaev (RUS)
2. Anzor Boltukaev (RUS)
3. Jaber SADEGHZADEHNOUKOULAEI (IRI)
3. Zolboo NATSAGSUREN (MGL)

53kg Women

1. Mayu MUKAIDA (JPN)
2. Otgontsetseg DAVAASUKH (MGL)
3. Sumiya ERDENECHIMEG (MGL)
3. Ekaterina POLESHCHUK (RUS)

55kg Women

1. Sae NANJO (JPN)
2. Sarah Hildebrandt (NYAC)
3. Aleksandra ANDREEVA (RUS)
3. - Battsetseg ALTANTSETSEG (MGL)

63kg Women

1. Orkhon PUREVDORJ (MGL)
2. Inna TRAZHUKOVA (RUS)
3. Ayaka ITO (JPN)
3. Taybe Yusein (BUL)

75kg Women

1. Urtnasar GANOCHIR (MGL)
2. Alena STARODUBTSEVA (RUS)
3. Bayarzaya TSERENDORJ (MGL)
3. Elena PEREPELKINA (MGL)

Sarah Hildebrandt became he second women from Team USA to make the finals this weekend, joining Tamyra Mensah at 69kg. Mensah became just the sixth woman to win the Yarygin from America. However, Hildebrandt would fall short of the gold medal as she fell to Sae Nanjo of Japan, a 2015 Cadet World bronze medalist, in the 55kg finals by fall. 

Hildebrandt had a pretty crazy run to the finals. She dominated her first match 10-0 over Nadezhda Tretyakova (RUS), setting up a quarterfinal with junior world medalist Marina Sedneva (KAZ). Despite trailing the whole bout, Hildebrandt kept attacking and in the waning seconds, scored a takedown and exposure to win 4-4 on criteria.

In the semis, she slowly gained steam against Aleksandra Andreeva (RUS). Two takedowns and a shot clock point gave her a 5-0 lead in the second, when she ran through Andreeva and stuck her for a fall to the make the finals. Mensah's wins yesterday were 3-1, 10-0, 9-8 and 8-4, as she won gold and Alli Ragan won bronze.

On the men's side, Nick Gwiazdowski went 0-1, losing in the first round to Adlan Ibragimov (RUS). The final score was 6-4, though the crucial exchange came when Gwiz was chasing a shot, and ended up rolling through on his back giving up four. Ibragimov then lost 3-1 to Anzor Boltukaev, knocking Gwiz out of repechage.

Cody Brewer won his first match 6-2 over Usman Shakhgiriev (RUS) before running into a buzzsaw in round two. Gadzhimurad Rashidov of Russia. Brewer got teched 12-1 by the reigning European champion. When Rashidov, who won four medals at age level world championships, gutted his way into the finals, Brewer was pulled back into repechage.

There, Brewer was paired up with 57kg Olympic silver medalist Rei Higuchi (JPN). Brewer struck first, but Higuchi countered with two takedowns of his own. Higuchi nearly ended the match with a leglace at the end of the first, but ran out of time. Brewer came out firing in the second period and took down Higuchi twice. He got in on legs a third time, but was neckwhipped to his back and pinned.

Meanwhile, Over In Paris

The United States put a guy in the finals of all four men's freestyle weights competing today. At 57kg, Nico Megaludis won his first match 10-0 on three takedowns and two leglace turns over Youssoup Deliev (FRA). Nico then beat Dzimchyk Rynchynau (BLR) 9-0 in the semis.

Jimmy Kennedy defeated BJ Futrell 6-0 in the first round and Nick Dardanes won 9-0 over Michael Assesltine (CAN). Kennedy then edged Dardanes 2-0 before teching Heorhi Kaliyev (BLR), 10-0 to punch his ticket to the finals. In the repechage, BJ Futrell cruised past Dardanes, 10-0 and will wrestle for bronze.

At 70kg, Chase Pami picked up to tech falls including one over fellow American Jason Welch to make the finals, and Welch then picked up a tech fall of his own to earn a spot in the bronze medal bout.

Finally, at 97kg Nathan Burak cruised by Wladimir Remel (GER), 7-2, and then teched Maxime Francois (FRA), 10-0 to punch his ticket to the finals. 

On the Greco side, Team USA took two losses straight away. In the first round at 71KG, Demeu Zhadrayev (KAZ) defeated Jayshon WIlson 9-1 and Pat Smith lost to Rafayel Aleksanyan (ARM) 8-0. Daniel Miller was the brought spot on the day for the Greco team. Miller stormed his way to the semis before falling to Felix Baldauf (NOR), 9-0. Miller will wrestle for bronze.