Young Anshu Malik was the lone Indian lady wrestler to win a medal at the person World Cup, grabbing a silver in the 57kg category in Belgrade. Anshu, who is coming up from the junior ranks, clinched her third medal at the senior level from as several tournaments. She lost the gold medal bout 1-5 to Moldova’s Anastasia Nichita on Wednesday evening. She had won a bronze at the Asian Championship early this year in New Delhi and a silver at Mattio Pellicone occasion in Rome in January.
She is steadily generating the 57kg category her personal in spite of presence of World championship medallist Pooja Dhanda and skilled Sarita Mor in the identical weight class.
Anshu started with a 4-2 win more than Azerbaijan’s Alyona Kolesnik and followed it up with 3-1 victory more than Germany’s Laura Mertens in the quarterfinals.
In the semi-final, she outplayed Russia’s Veronika Chumikova, recording a victory by fall.
Another Indian grappler Pinki also did nicely to attain the 55kg semi-finals, exactly where she lost to Belarusian Iryna Kurachkina.
She later lost the bout for bronze to Russia’s Olga Khoroshavtseva by technical superiority.
Sarita (59kg), Sonam Malik (62kg) and Sakshi Malik (65kg) could not go beyond quarterfinals in their respective categories.
Veteran Gursharanpreet got a repechage round in the 72kg but lost that by technical superiority to Evgeniia Zakharchenko.
Nirmala Devi (50kg) and Kiran (76kg) fizzed in the Qualification round, losing 6-9 to Poland’s Anna Lukasiak and Canada’s Erica Elizabeth Wiebe respectively.
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From amongst the Greco Roman grapplers, only Arjun Halakurki could attain the quarterfinals in the 55kg though all other could not go beyond qualification rounds.
Arjun lost 5-10 to Kyrgyzstan’s Balbai Dordokov.