Anshu Malik Wins Silver Medal: Wrestler scripted history on Thursday as she won the silver medal at the World Wrestling Championship going on in Oslo, Norway. The 20-year-old wrestling is the first Indian woman to reach the finals of the championship and therefore the first one to win the silver medal.
She gave a strong battle to two-time Olympic medallist Helen Maroulis who won the gold medal. Malik maintained her performance despite an ankle injury in the quarterfinals and an elbow injury.
Malik defeated European silver medallist Solomiia Vynnyk of Ukraine in the women's 57 kg semifinals on Wednesday. All other Indian women wrestlers before her, Geeta Phogat, Babita Kumar, Pooja Dhanda, Vinesh Phogat and Alka Tomar had won bronze medals in the wrestling championship.
After Sushil Kumar and Bajrang Punia, the silver medal winners from 2010 and 2018 respectively, Anshu Malik is only the third Indian wrestler to reach that mark. Malik is also a junior Worlds silver medallist and a cadet World champion.
Her father and former wrestler Dharamvir told Sportstar, "In the quarterfinals, she injured her ankle but fought the semifinals after taking painkillers. That’s why she could not reduce her weight last night and did it this morning."
He said that after Malik faced loss during the Olympics, he told her believe in her karma. Talking about her injuries, he added, " It was a really tough month. Anshu continued to train (under the guidance of her coach Jagdeesh Sheoran at Nidani village in Jind district of Haryana) despite tremendous pain. Her determination helped her."
Anshu Malik gave her winning speech, a video of which was posted by United World Wrestling. She said, "I am extremely delighted. In the Olympics, I could not perform the way I wanted to. I can’t explain how I trained for a month with that (left elbow) injury. I didn’t want to repeat the disappointing performance I put up at the Olympics."
She said that after every bout seems like her last, "now or never" she said.
“I tried to give my 100 percent."
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