The 2014 Olympics wrestling bronze medallist Sakshi Malik appears to have gotten over her latest struggles, successful the gold medal on the Ranking Series in Kazakhstan
The 2014 Olympics wrestling bronze medallist Sakshi Malik appears to have gotten over her latest struggles, successful the gold medal on the Ranking Series in Kazakhstan
Sakshi Malik’s struggles had been nowhere to be seen as a fearless and aggressive Rio Olympics bronze medallist grabbed her first worldwide gold medal in virtually 5 years on the UWW Ranking Series occasion in Kazakhstan on Friday.
India’s Mansi (57kg) and Divya Kakran (68kg) too earned prime of the rostrum finishes. Another Indian, Pooja gained a bronze medal in 76kg.
But the day belonged to Sakshi, who has been struggling until the latest CWG trials.
Comeback after lacking Tokyo
She was constantly dropping to younger Sonam Malik within the 62kg class and even missed qualification for the Tokyo Games however appeared utterly reworked on Friday as she fought her bouts with great confidence.
She started with a win by technical superiority towards Kazakhstan’s Irina Kuznetsova and adopted that up with one other massive 9-3 win over Uzbekistan’s Rushana Abdirasulova.
As Mongolia’s Tserenchimed Sukhee forfeited her semifinal, Sakshi entered the ultimate, the place she pinned Kuznetsova whereas main 7-4, beating the house wrestler for a second time within the day.
Emphatic win
Sakshi stood out along with her double leg assaults and agility, hardly giving respiration tempo to her opponents. Even when her rival gained a problem to take 5-3 lead, Sakshi was not perturbed and gained in an emphatic trend.
The final time she gained a gold was in 2017 Commonwealth Championship at the same time as she gained two bronze medals on the Asian Championships in 2020 and 2022.
Gold for Mansi, silver for Divya
Also successful the gold was Mansi (57kg), who gained her remaining bout 3-0 towards Kazakshtan’s Emma Tissina, who hardly made a transfer. Mansi obtained push out factors as principally the 2 wresters had been concerned in standing wrestling.
Divya gained two of her bouts by ‘fall’ — towards Mongolia’s Delgermaa Enkhsaikhan and Kazakhstan’s Albina Kairgeldinova — however misplaced the ultimate bout 10-14 to Mongolia’s Bolortungalag Zorigt within the four-wrestler 68kg class.
Zorigt additionally completed with two wins and a defeat (towards Delgermaa) however since Divya had extra convincing outcomes, she was declared winner.
India now have gained 5 medals with Greco Roman wrestler Neeraj clinching a bronze in 63kg class on Thursday.
Source: www.thehindu.com
