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Anshu Malik clinched her third medal on the senior stage from as many tournaments.© Twitter
Young Anshu Malik was the lone Indian girl wrestler to win a medal on the particular person World Cup, grabbing a silver within the 57kg class in Belgrade. Anshu, who’s developing from the junior ranks, clinched her third medal on the senior stage from as many tournaments. She misplaced the gold medal bout 1-5 to Moldova’s Anastasia Nichita on Wednesday night time. She had received a bronze on the Asian Championship early this yr in New Delhi and a silver at Mattio Pellicone occasion in Rome in January.
She is steadily making the 57kg class her personal regardless of presence of World championship medallist Pooja Dhanda and skilled Sarita Mor in the identical weight class.
Anshu started with a 4-2 win over Azerbaijan’s Alyona Kolesnik and adopted it up with 3-1 victory over Germany’s Laura Mertens within the quarterfinals.
In the semi-final, she outplayed Russia’s Veronika Chumikova, recording a victory by fall.
Another Indian grappler Pinki additionally did nicely to achieve the 55kg semi-finals, the place she misplaced to Belarusian Iryna Kurachkina.
She later misplaced the bout for bronze to Russia’s Olga Khoroshavtseva by technical superiority.
Sarita (59kg), Sonam Malik (62kg) and Sakshi Malik (65kg) couldn’t transcend quarterfinals of their respective classes.
Veteran Gursharanpreet obtained a repechage spherical within the 72kg however misplaced that by technical superiority to Evgeniia Zakharchenko.
Nirmala Devi (50kg) and Kiran (76kg) fizzed within the Qualification spherical, shedding 6-9 to Poland’s Anna Lukasiak and Canada’s Erica Elizabeth Wiebe respectively.
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From among the many Greco Roman grapplers, solely Arjun Halakurki might attain the quarterfinals within the 55kg whereas all different couldn’t transcend qualification rounds.
Arjun misplaced 5-10 to Kyrgyzstan’s Balbai Dordokov.
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