Novi Sad [Serbia], October 28 (ANI): Indian wrestlers completed their U23 World Wrestling Championships 2025 marketing campaign on Monday with a complete of 9 medals, which included one gold, two silver and 6 bronze medals.
Competitions have been held in 10 weight classes every in males’s and ladies’s freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, with India getting into one athlete per class, besides in males’s freestyle 125kg. Around 700 wrestlers from throughout the globe competed within the Serbian metropolis.
Sujeet Kalkal gained the gold medal within the 65kg males’s freestyle class on the ultimate day of competitors to finish India’s marketing campaign on a excessive. It, nonetheless, was India’s solely podium end in males’s freestyle classes this yr, based on Olympics.com.
Sujeet beat Uzbekistan’s Umidjon Jalolov, a senior world championships bronze medallist and former U20 champion, 10-0 through technical superiority within the remaining bout.
This was India’s fourth gold medal on the U23 World Wrestling Championships from eight editions.
Aman Sehrawat (males’s 57kg) gained the primary in 2022 whereas Reetika Hooda, competing underneath the United World Wrestling flag in 2023, topped the ladies’s 76kg division on the 2023 version. Chirag Chikkara accounted for the solitary gold within the males’s 57kg finally yr’s championships held in Tirana, Albania.
Indian wrestlers additionally completed the 2025 version with a complete of 9 medals – one gold, one silver and 7 bronze.
Earlier, Vishvajit More opened India’s medal account on the U23 World Wrestling Championships 2025 after bagging bronze within the Greco-Roman 55kg class, based on Olympics.com.
Interestingly, this was More’s second straight bronze medal on the U23 World Championships. Interestingly, he had additionally registered the primary medal for India on the 2024 version.
Former U20 world champion Priya Malik gained the primary girls’s freestyle medal – a bronze – within the 76kg division. Asian U20 champion Neha Sharma additionally gained bronze within the girls’s 57kg class so as to add a 3rd U23 World Championships medal to her kitty.
Meanwhile, Nishu’s run to the bronze within the girls’s 55kg included toppling 2024 world champion Moe Kiyooka of Japan within the spherical of 16.
Sarika (59kg) and Hansika Lamba (53kg) secured silver medals for India of their respective girls’s freestyle occasions.
With two silvers and 5 bronze, the Indian girls wrestlers gained the crew title on the U23 World Wrestling Championships. (ANI)