Astana [Kazakhstan], April 12 (ANI): Indian wrestlers Nisha Dahiya and Priya clinched silver and bronze medals of their respective weight classes on the ongoing Asian Wrestling Championships being held in Astana, Kazakhstan on Tuesday.
Nisha, a bronze medalist on the U23 world championships within the 65 kg class final 12 months, competed within the 68 kg class within the Kazakh meet. She began off her day with a 10-10 win by way of standards over the earlier version’s bronze medalist Delgermaa Enkhsaikhan of Mongolia within the quarterfinals after which later made a comeback from behind to beat Asian Games champion and Olympian, Feng Zhou of China to advance to the gold medal match, as per Olympics.com.
But Ami Ishi, a highly-rated younger Japanese expertise and a 2022 world championships silver medalist proved to be too robust for the Indian to beat. Ishi received the match and walked away with the gold whereas Nisha needed to accept silver.
Priya, competing within the 76 kg class in ladies’s competitors, defeated Chinese Taipei’s Hui Tsz Chang by 2-1 to advance previous the qualification stage. But she was defeated by Kyrgyzstan’s Aiperi Kyzy within the quarterfinal. The 18-year-old Indian entered the repechage spherical following Kyzy’s progress to the ultimate.
In the bronze medal bout, the U17 world champion Priya defeated Japan’s Mizuki Nagashima 2-1 to clinch the bronze.
With these two medals, India’s medal tally on the championships has elevated to 6. On earlier days, Greco-Roman wrestler Rupin (55kg) bagged silver whereas Neeraj (63kg), Vikas (72kg) and Sunil Kumar (87kg) clinched bronze medals.
Neelam (50 kg), Sito (55 kg) and Sarita Mor (59 kg) have been three different ladies competing on Tuesday, however they didn’t get their fingers on a medal.
Neelam received her quarterfinal bout in opposition to Kazakhstan’s Ellada Makhyaddinova by way of fall however was pinned by the eventual gold medalist Remina Yoshimoto of Japan within the semi-final. In the bronze medal match, China’s Ziqi Feng defeated Neelam by way of technical superiority.
Sito bowed out of the competitors after a first-round loss to former U23 Asian champion Marina Sedneva of Kazakhstan.
Sarita, a two-time Asian champion and bronze medalist final 12 months, misplaced two of her three rounds and didn’t qualify for medal bouts.
Though Sarita began properly with a 4-1 win over 2021 Asian championship silver medalist Bolortuya Khurelkhuu of Mongolia, losses to finalists Yui Sakano of Japan and Zhuomalaga of China ended her marketing campaign in Astana.
The remaining 5 Indian ladies wrestlers – U20 world champion Antim Paghal (53kg), Anshu Malik (57kg), Sonam Malik (62kg), Manisha (65kg) and Reetika Hooda (72kg) – might be competing on Wednesday.
At the final 12 months’s meet in Mongolia, Indian ladies’s wrestlers received two silvers and three bronze medals.
The championships began on April 9 in Astana and can finish on April 14. (ANI)