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Sujeet Kalkal's 24-match winning streak ended at the Wrestling World Championships on Thursday, as he lost 3-3 on criteria to Tajikistan's Abdulmazhid Kudiev in the men's 65kg quarter-finals in Astana. The defeat came after a controversial decision in the final 30 seconds, where Sujeet's two points were overturned on challenge, levelling the score and allowing Kudiev to win on criteria due to scoring the last point.
Sujeet had won seven titles over the past year, including the 2026 Asian Games, but admitted that post-victory celebrations disrupted his training. His loss also ended India's hopes of a second men's freestyle world champion after Sushil Kumar's 2010 win. Sujeet had previously beaten Kudiev in the Asian Games final after a comeback from 2-9 down.
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