Saturday, March 03, 2018

Wrestling News

At 2018 Asian Wrestling Championships, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

P.C. to unitedworldwrestling.org
Women's freestyle-65 kg - Gold Medal match
Navjot Kaur (IND) bt Miyu Imai (JPN) 9-1

Navjot Kaur became the first Indian woman in the history to win a gold medal at the Asian Championships when she won the 65kg crown with a 9-1 victory in the final over Miyu Imai ... Only six wrestlers were participated, so first all wrestlers played the round-robin ... In that, Miyu defeated Navjot in the 1st bout, 4-4 (last point won by Miyu) but in the final, Navjot played attacking wrestling and didn't give any chance to Miyu.

In 50kg, Vinesh Phogat captured a silver as she lost the final against Chinese wrestler Lei Chun ... Olympic medal winner Sakshi Malik lost in the 1st bout against Chinese girl Luo Xiaojuan after taking 6-0 lead, match ended on 6-all ... Sakshi fought back and won all her next matches to win a bronze in 62kg ... Sangeeta Phogat also won a bronze in 59kg.
In Men's Greco-Roman, Rajender Kumar won a bronze in 55kg and Harpreet Singh won a bronze in 82kg.

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