PROMISING grappler Fierre Proudhon Afan qualified for the 2023 World Combat Games later this year after a podium finish in the qualifying event held at the Yunusobod in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Afan, 18, scored a 4-3 win over Armenian Suren Khurdayan via high amplitude throw in the battle for bronze in the MGi Seniors 71 kg class and automatically clinch a ticket in the World Combat Games slated on October 21 to 30 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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