Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], October 1 (ANI): Nitesh Siwach stormed into the boys’s Greco-Roman 97kg last with a dominant 9-0 victory over Mongolia’s Gankhuyag Ganbaatar, whereas Mansi Ahlawat’s gold medal hopes had been dashed after a 0-6 semifinal defeat to Japan’s two-time world champion Nonoka Ozaki on the Asian Games right here on Thursday.
Nitesh, who received silver on the Asian Championships earlier this 12 months, produced one other commanding efficiency towards the Hangzhou Asian Games bronze medallist to guarantee India of its second wrestling medal on the Aichi-Nagoya Games, in accordance with ESPN.
The Indian had earlier defeated Turkmenistan’s Amanberdi Agamammedov 7-1 within the quarterfinals, racing to a 7-0 lead within the opening interval earlier than finishing the victory.
Nitesh will now battle for gold towards the winner of the opposite semifinal between Iran’s Mehdi Balihamzehdeh and Japan’s Yuri Nakazato.
Mansi, in the meantime, couldn’t overcome the problem posed by Ozaki within the girls’s 62kg semifinal.
The Japanese wrestler took an early 2-0 lead with a takedown and repeated the transfer to increase her benefit to 4-0. Mansi defended nicely thereafter however struggled to discover a method by Ozaki’s defence.
Ozaki added two extra factors with one other takedown within the second interval earlier than holding on to finish a 6-0 victory.
Mansi, a former World Championships bronze medallist within the 59kg class, will now compete within the repechage and have an opportunity to battle for the bronze medal.
India additionally had combined fortunes in judo on Thursday. Yamini Mourya misplaced her girls’s 57kg quarterfinal to Mongolia’s Ariunzaya Terbish by yuko and can now face Japan’s Mio Shirakane within the repechage for a spot within the bronze medal bout.
In the ladies’s 70kg class, Inunganbi Takhellambam progressed to the quarterfinals after defeating Nepal’s Punam Shrestha by ippon. She will face North Korea’s Mun Song Hui within the final eight.
India additionally secured a bronze medal in girls’s crew squash after dropping 1-2 to Hong Kong within the semifinal.
Earlier within the day, India confirmed a medal in males’s sepaktakraw after beating Vietnam 2-0 within the quadrant Group A match to seal a semifinal spot.
India’s males’s volleyball marketing campaign, nonetheless, resulted in disappointment as they misplaced 0-3 to Pakistan within the quarterfinals.
India had entered Day 12 with 60 medals — 10 gold, 21 silver and 29 bronze — and continued so as to add to its tally throughout wrestling, squash, sepaktakraw and different disciplines. (ANI)