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Olympic medallist Sakshi Malik after stunning and comfortably winning her semi-final bouts, settled for a silver in the finals. The big sensation Sakshi wrestled in the final of women’s 60kg category at the Senior Asian Wrestling Championships in New Delhi and clinched a silver against Olympic gold medallist Japan’s Risako Kawai.
#AsianWrestlingChampionship: Silver for @SakshiMalik after losing to Rio gold medallist Risako Kawai in freestyle 60 kg final
— TOI Sports (@toisports) May 12, 2017
Silver for @SakshiMalik as well, as she is ousted in the first round itself by TF. A little disappointing. #asianwrestlingchampionship
— Shraishth Jain (@shraishth_jain) May 12, 2017
Best off luck @SakshiMalik
#SakshiMalik loses to Japan’s #RisakoKawai in the final of 60kg category at #AsianWrestlingChampionship, wins silver pic.twitter.com/TemVncBBJK
— HT Sports (@HTSportsNews) May 12, 2017
Though the 24-year-old in her quest for the gold medal, missed by a whisker, Sakshi played out real well in her first international competition after winning the 58kg bronze medal at Rio Olympics.
Meanwhile, the other Indian women grapplers — Ritu Phogat won bronze in Women’s freestyle 48 kg after getting a walkover by Sun Yanan of China.
#AsianWrestlingChampionship India’s @PhogatRitu wins bronze in Women’s freestyle 48 kg after getting a walkover by Sun Yanan of China
— TOI Sports (@toisports) May 12, 2017
.@PhogatRitu bags a bronze in the 48kg category #AsianWrestlingChampionship @TheQuint pic.twitter.com/IZeeBhloc0
— Shreeda Aggarwal (@ShreedaAggarwal) May 12, 2017
And, Vinesh Phogat took home a silver after losing it to Sae Nanjo of Japan in Women’s freestyle 55 kg final. She was playing on her comeback from injury.
#VineshPhogat loses in the final, wins silver in 55 kg #AsianWrestlingChampionship pic.twitter.com/dNix4uuuT7
— HT Sports (@HTSportsNews) May 12, 2017
Coming back from injury with a heavily strapped knee, @phogat_vinesh making a statement here!#AsianWrestlingChampionship #vineshphogat pic.twitter.com/9BUChjYPmK
— Karishma Singh (@karishmasingh22) May 12, 2017
Divya Kakran was the third Indian girl to have made the final of the women’s 69kg category.
#AsianWrestlingChampionship: #SakshiMalik, #VineshPhogat & #DivyaKakran cruise into gold medal round. pic.twitter.com/HflF7lZwz5
— All India Radio News (@airnewsalerts) May 12, 2017
READ: Olympic victor Sakshi Malik’s training included 12 years of fighting misogyny
Earlier, Sakshi in the first bout in the semis, beat Uzbekistan’s Nabira Esenbaeva 6-2 and then knocked out Ayaulym Kassymova of Kazakhstan 15-4 to enter the final, assuring herself at least a silver.
@SakshiMalik @phogat_vinesh and Divya are into the finals of #AsianWrestlingChampionship
Go Girls! All the best
RT and Spread the news pic.twitter.com/aJg8zOVfH1— Khel India (@khel_India) May 12, 2017
Also Read: Sakshi Malik, Dipa Karmakar, Deepa Malik Get Padma Awards
We couldn’t be more prouder!
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