Hangzhou [China], October 5 (ANI): India’s Pooja Gehlot and Antim Panghal will compete for a bronze medal after shedding their quarterfinal matches within the ladies’s 50kg and 53kg freestyle wrestling respectively on the Asian Games on Thursday.
Mongolia’s Tsogt-Ochiryn Namuuntsetseg beat Pooja 5-1 within the quarterfinals whereas Antim went down towards Japanese grappler Fujinami Akari.
Indian wrestler Mansi Ahlawat misplaced within the quarterfinals within the 57 kg to three-time reigning World Champion Tsugumi Sakurai 2-6.
Mansi gained her Repechage bout towards Jeongae Bark of South Korea to qualify for the Bronze medal sport the place she shall be up towards Laylokhon Sobirova of Uzbekistan.
Narinder Cheema confronted 1-3 defeat towards South Korea’s Seyeol Lee within the males’s Greco Roman 97kg quarter-final. Naveen went down combating China’s Meng Lingzhi 3-0 within the males’s Greco Roman 130kg quarter-final.
Earlier, U-20 World Champion Panghal superior to the quarterfinals within the ladies’s freestyle 53kg wrestling on Thursday.
Antim scored 5 technical factors within the first half and 6 within the second to win simply 11-0 towards the reigning Asian Championships silver medallist Jasmina Immaeva. (ANI)