 "India make history at U17 World Wrestling Championships with first team title as Kajal wins fifth gold")
Extending India’s domination of the women’s event at the Under-17 World Wrestling Championship, Kajal became the fifth wrestler from the country to bag the title in the ongoing edition on Saturday as the nation won its first-ever team title with 185 points.
Kajal won the gold medal with her commanding 9-2 win over Ukraine’s Oleksandra Rybak in the 69kg weight category. However, Shrutika had to be content with a silver after being outwitted by Japan’s Yuu Katsume, who finished the 46kg gold medal bout in mere 40 seconds.
Raj Bala grabbed bronze in 40kg with a 11-5 win over Japan’s Monaka Umekawa, while Muskan outplayed USA’s Isabella Gonzales by technical superiority in the 53kg bronze play-off to add to India’s tally.
Rajnita though lost the women’s 61kg bronze play-off ‘by fall’ to Azerbaijan’s Hiunai Hurbanova. She was the only one to miss out on a medal in an extremely successful edition for Indian women.
Indian women signed off with eight medals, including five gold, one silver and three bronze and collected 185 points overall to finish at the top of team tally for the first time. Tradition powerhouse Japan finished second with 146 points and Kazakhstan were third with 79 points.
Aditi Kumari (43kg), Neha (57kg), Pulkit (65kg) and Mansi Lather (73kg) had won titles in their respective categories on Friday.
🤼♀️INDIA WINS TEAM TITLE AT WOMEN'S WRESTLING IN U17 WORLD CH'SHIPS🇯🇴
— SPORTS ARENA🇮🇳 (@SportsArena1234) August 23, 2024
Kajal defeated Oleksandra Rybak🇺🇦 9-2 to win🥇at Women's 69 kg.
WW Medal Tally - 5🥇1🥈2🥉
India with 185 points finished ahead of Women's Wrestling powerhouse Japan (146 points) to win Team Gold🥇 pic.twitter.com/6CFTS1lBYN
Impact Shorts
More ShortsHowever, India’s men’s freestyle wrestlers could not replicate the success of their women counterparts as none of the five grapplers in action on Friday could make the semifinals.
Out of the five, only two — Harsh and Vevik — managed to win a round.
Harsh (48kg) began with a confident 6-2 win over Erbol Bolotov but was outsmarted by Chingis Saryglar in the quarterfinal.
In the 55kg category, Jaiveer Singh fell at the first hurdle, losing on criteria (3-3) to Azatberdi Ashyrgulyev, who later lost his quarterfinal to end the Indian’s chance of making a comeback through repechage.
In 65kg, Sagar lost his qualification bout 5-7 to Bakdaulet Akimzhan and will now have to wait to know if the repechage route opens up for him.
Vevik began with a decent 11-4 victory over Aliaksei Kuryla but lost his quarterfinal bout by technical superiority to Nikoloz Maisuradze.
In the 110kg bout, Jaspooran Singh lost on criteria (1-1) to Kazakhstan’s Yedige Kassimbek.
With agency inputs
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