Asian Wrestling Championships LIVE – Anshu Malik bags SILVER: World Championship Silver Medallist Anshu Malik and Radhika had to be content with Silver medals at the Asian Championships on Friday. Meanwhile, Manisha secured another medal for India as she defeated South Korea’s Hanbit Lee to clinch the bronze medal in the 62kg category. Follow InsideSport.IN for more updates
Asian Wrestling Championships LIVE: Anshu Malik and Radhika settle for silver medals, Manisha wins Bronze : Follow LIVE UPDATES
Asian Wrestling Championship LIVE – Friday Evening Session
- 57kg Gold Medal Bout: Tsugumi SAKURAI (JAP) beat Anshu Malik 4-0
- 62kg Bronze Medal: Manisha beat Lee Hanbit (KOR) 4-2
- 65kg Gold Medal Bout: Miya Morikawa (JAP) beat Radhika 10-0.
While Anshu Malik lost the Gold Medal bout to Japanese Tsugumi Sakurai by fall 0-4 in the 57kg final, Radhika lost to Japan’s Miya Morikawa. Anshu Malik, the 20-year-old defending champion from Haryana’s Nidani village dished out a strong performance and literally toyed with her opponents to assure herself a third Asian Championship medal.
However, she fell short against a stronger Japanese opponent, losing the final by 0-4 via fall and bagged the Silver medal as a great preparation for the upcoming mega events.
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🥇 Tsugumi SAKURAI 🇯🇵 df Anshu MALIK 🇮🇳, via fall
🥉Bolortuya KHURELKHUU 🇲🇳 df Shokhida AKHMEDOVA 🇺🇿, 11-1
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She had won a bronze in the 2020 edition at home and won the 57kg title last year in Almaty. Anshu became the first Indian woman wrestler to reach the World Championship final last year and continued her good form in Asian Championships this year.
- She began with a win over Uzbekistan’s Shokhida Akhmedova
- The girl from Haryana followed it up with another dominating victory against Singapore’s Danielle Sue Ching Lim, who appeared at sea against her superior Indian rival.
- Anshu hardly gave her rivals time to think or strategise as she pulled off move after move with ease to bamboozle them.
- She overpowered Mongolia’s Bolortuya Khurelkhuu in the semifinals, beginning with a four-point throw that ensued from a double-leg attack.
- Easy take-downs and push-out points meant that the last-four stage bout ended in just two minutes and 12 seconds.
- However in the final, she was outpowered by the 20-year old Sakurai, who subdues Anshu in under a minute.
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Meanwhile, Radhika won three of her four bouts in the 65 kg category to ensure a silver medal in the tournament.
Manisha wins Bronze Medal: Manisha, who has been doing well in the 62kg category at domestic events for some time, became the second Indian women to win a medal at the continental event this year after defeating South Korea’s Lee Hanbit 4-2 in the bronze-medal playoff.
She lost her semifinal in just 40 seconds to Japan’s Nonoka Ozaki to bow out of gold medal race. Ozaki trapped her in a leg-lace move early in the contest and finished the bout in a jiffy.
This was after Manisha was off to a flying start, winning 9-0 against Kazakhstan’s Ayaulym Kassymova. She will fight for bronze against Korea’s Hanbit Lee Meanwhile, Swati Shinde (53kg) lost both her bouts by technical superiority to go out of medal race.
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