Vishvajit Ramchandra More won a silver medal in the 55 kg Greco-Roman category at the U23 World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas, according to ANI, Sentinel Assam and other outlets, becoming the first Indian to win a Greco-Roman silver at the tournament. He lost the final 12-13 to Georgia’s Koba Karumidze, according to the same reports.
The score shows how narrow the margin was. A one-point defeat in a bout where both wrestlers scored 12 or more points is a close result in a sport in which points are scored in small increments, which is a general point about wrestling scoring and not a statement in the reports. The reports reviewed do not describe the sequence of points, any challenge or the last-minute moves.
More had won medals at the event before. The reports say that he had earlier won two bronze medals at the U23 World Championships, so the silver is his third medal at the event, a count by IndiaX24 from the reports. The reports reviewed do not say in which years or weight categories the bronze medals were won.
The silver is described as India’s first Greco-Roman silver at the U23 World Championships, according to ANI’s headline and the other reports. Indian wrestlers have won medals at the event in other styles, but the reports reviewed do not list them, so the comparison is not made here.
Greco-Roman wrestling is one of the two styles of wrestling in the Olympic programme, along with freestyle. In Greco-Roman wrestlers may only use their upper bodies to attack and are not allowed to attack the legs, which is a general rule of the sport and not part of the reports. The reports reviewed describe the medal as a first in the style at this event.
The U23 World Championships are for wrestlers under 23, which is why they are seen as a stepping stone to senior competition. That is a general description, and the reports reviewed do not say what More’s next target is. IndiaX24 has an earlier biography of the wrestler Sakshi Malik, who won a bronze medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics, for readers who want background on Indian wrestling.
More competes at 55 kg, one of the lighter categories. The reports reviewed do not give the number of competitors in the category, the bouts he won to reach the final or the scores of those bouts, so the route to the final is not described.
ESPN’s round-up of Indian sport for 15 October lists the silver among the day’s results, with the other results from badminton and football. The reports reviewed do not give details of other Indian medals at the championships or the medal table.
There was also news off the mat. ESPN reported the same day that the president and the secretary general of the Boxing Federation of India suspended each other, and that an Indian women’s rifle trio failed to reach a final at an ISSF World Cup event, which are separate stories.
IndiaX24 will report on the remaining Indian results at the U23 World Championships if the medal table is published.
Image: A Greco-Roman wrestling bout at the 2025 CIS Games (file photo; a stand-in image, not from the U23 Worlds). Photo by Dilaver Najafov, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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