NEW DELHI: India’s Nisha Dahiya secured the biggest-ever medal of her promising wrestling profession when she received a silver within the girls’s 68kg class on the Asian Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan on Tuesday.
Another Indian wrestler, Priya Malik, clinched a bronze within the girls’s 76kg class after beating Japan’s Mizuki Nagashima within the repechage spherical. Priya, the U-20 Worlds silver medalist, had crushed Chinese Taipei’s Hui Tsz Chang within the qualification spherical ahead of taking place to Kyrgyz Republic’s Aiperi Medet Kyzy in the second one spherical.
Nisha, who made a sensational comeback in her semifinal, defeating China’s Feng Zhou 7-6 in a nail-biter after trailing for the simpler a part of the bout, discovered the going difficult towards a awesome Japanese opponent Ami Ishii and misplaced her gold medal fit through technical superiority.
Ishii accrued a 10-point lead ahead of the referee known as off the competition. Ishii, a 2022 World Championships silver medalist, had led Nisha 4-0 on the finish of the primary length. Nisha’s silver may be her first primary medal on the senior degree.
Previously, she had competed on the U-23 Worlds in 2021, successful bronze within the 65kg class. At closing 12 months’s senior Worlds in Belgrade, she misplaced her bronze medal fit within the 68kg department. In November 2021, the Indian wrestling fraternity was once left in surprise when the scoop broke out that Nisha and her brother Suraj were shot useless at a wrestling academy in Sonepat through unidentified assailants.
However, the scoop of Nisha’s killing grew to become out to be a case of incorrect identification after it was once published that every other wrestler of the similar title was once shot.
Another Indian wrestler, Priya Malik, clinched a bronze within the girls’s 76kg class after beating Japan’s Mizuki Nagashima within the repechage spherical. Priya, the U-20 Worlds silver medalist, had crushed Chinese Taipei’s Hui Tsz Chang within the qualification spherical ahead of taking place to Kyrgyz Republic’s Aiperi Medet Kyzy in the second one spherical.
Nisha, who made a sensational comeback in her semifinal, defeating China’s Feng Zhou 7-6 in a nail-biter after trailing for the simpler a part of the bout, discovered the going difficult towards a awesome Japanese opponent Ami Ishii and misplaced her gold medal fit through technical superiority.
Ishii accrued a 10-point lead ahead of the referee known as off the competition. Ishii, a 2022 World Championships silver medalist, had led Nisha 4-0 on the finish of the primary length. Nisha’s silver may be her first primary medal on the senior degree.
Previously, she had competed on the U-23 Worlds in 2021, successful bronze within the 65kg class. At closing 12 months’s senior Worlds in Belgrade, she misplaced her bronze medal fit within the 68kg department. In November 2021, the Indian wrestling fraternity was once left in surprise when the scoop broke out that Nisha and her brother Suraj were shot useless at a wrestling academy in Sonepat through unidentified assailants.
However, the scoop of Nisha’s killing grew to become out to be a case of incorrect identification after it was once published that every other wrestler of the similar title was once shot.