Antim Panghal completed with silver and Anshu Malik claimed bronze as medals persisted to pour in for India at the fourth day of the Asian Wrestling Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan.
While 5 Indian wrestlers reached the medal spherical on Wednesday, best Panghal (53kg) reached the overall, the place she misplaced to favourite and protecting champion Akari Fujinami of Japan. Coming into the Asian meet at the again of a 116-match unbeaten streak, the 19-year-old Japanese breezed previous Chinese Taipei’s Meng Hsieh (11-0) within the quarterfinals and entered the overall with a 10-0 takedown of Tokyo bronze medalist Bolortuya Bat Ochir of Mongolia.
Panghal, the sector junior champion (U-20) in a similar fashion ruled her part of the sphere, no longer conceding a unmarried level at the strikes of her opponents. The best level she misplaced used to be thru a warning within the semi-final towards Uzbekistan’s Aktenge Keunimjaeva, who she beat 8–1.
The 18-year-old had begun her marketing campaign with a win via fall towards Singapore’s Hsiao Ping Alvina Lim, adopted via a 6-0 quarterfinal win towards China’s Li Deng.
The last even though became out to be a completely other proposition for Panghal, who used to be outclassed 10-0 via Fujinami within the first length itself.
In 57kg, 2021 international championships silver medalist Anshu Malik misplaced the semi-final to Japan’s Sae Nanjo 5-1. Malik and Nanjo had been tied 1-1 in the second one length prior to the latter effected a single-leg takedown that awkwardly twisted Malik’s left knee, leaving her writhing in ache. The bout used to be stopped for an harm destroy and Nanjo finished the win after resumption.
In the bronze play-off, Anshu beat Mongolia’s Erdenesuvd bat Erdene 10–0.
This used to be Anshu’s 2d loss to Nanjo, the sooner 10–0 opposite having come within the 2018 Junior international championships semifinals.
In 62kg, Sonam Malik beat China’s Xiaojuan Luo 5-1 within the bronze medal bout. Sonam had misplaced her opening bout to Mongolia’s Orkhon Purevdorj 7-1 however went into repechage after Purevdorj reached the overall. Similarly, Manisha (65kg) took benefit of the repechage direction, beating Kazakhstan’s Albina Kairgeldinova via fall (8-0). Manisha previous beat Shoovdor Baatarjav of Mongolia and Uzbekistan’s Ariukhan Jumabaeva prior to shedding to eventual winner, China’s Jia Long.
Reetika Hooda (72kg) rounded off the day with a bronze, beating Uzbekistan’s Svetlana Oknazarova 5-1. Indian girls ended the contest with seven medals (2 silver, 5 bronze). Nisha Dahiya (68kg) and Priya (76kg) gained silver and bronze on Tuesday. Greco-Roman wrestlers had gained 4 medals – one silver and 3 bronze.