BOLTON’S George Ramm will go back to the drawing board to try and earn a first Commonwealth Games gold medal after finishing fourth on the Gold Coast yesterday.

The 57kg freestyle wrestler endured a tough draw in Australia but still fought his way through to the bronze medal match.

And while the result did not go his way, at just 21 years of age and with two Commonwealth Games under his belt, Ramm is hopefully for the future.

“It is a bit gutting, but I had a feeling when I came here I was going to get the toughest draw out of them all,” said the Harwood star.

“If anybody had asked me, who do you not want in your pool? It would have been India and Pakistan and I have had to face them both.

“I am still 21 so I have still got a lot of time, this is my second Games so I have got to go back to the drawing board and start working again.

“I am getting closer every time but I really wanted a medal this time – it is a bit of a shame – I felt like I was in perfect condition to take one.

‘But it is wrestling, that’s how it goes. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose and you have to take it on the chin and come back.”

Ramm was drawn against India’s Rahul Aware in the first round and was unable to beat the Indian so looked like he may be making an early exit.

But with Aware progressing to the final Ramm was given a second chance as one of the men beaten by the eventual finallists.

They were entered into the repackages and Ramm got his first win of the day when he beat home favourite Thomas Cicchini to progress to the bronze medal match.

But a medal was not to be as Pakistan’s Muhammad Bilal got the better of him to leave Ramm fourth.

“The game plan went well, my first round was better than the second, but the ankle attacks were working well,” he said of the fight against Bilal.

“But he was tying up my fingers the whole time, I couldn’t get going and the referee was not penalising for it – it just slowed me down.”

Elsewhere on the matt at the Carrara Sports and Leisure Centre, fellow Sharples Wrestling Club member Georgina Nelthorpe did what Ramm could not and picked up a medal.

The 21-year-old won bronze in the 76kg category as the Burnley wrestler beat Sierra Leone’s Hajaratu Kamara in the podium play-off.

“That was incredible, absolutely incredible – I could not ask for a better feeling in the world,’ she said.

“That was an amazingly good match and I got it done – I have put two years into this and it was worth every minute.

“I wanted to win, for my first Games – I have wrestled an Olympic champion, had some tough competitors and I am so proud to be representing England.”

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