Sakshi Malik Wins Silver In Asian Wrestling Championships

Olympic medallist Sakshi Malik after stunning and comfortably winning her semi-final bouts, settled for a silver in the finals. The big sensation Sakshi wrestled in the final of women’s 60kg category at the Senior Asian Wrestling Championships in New Delhi and clinched a silver against Olympic gold medallist Japan’s Risako Kawai.

#AsianWrestlingChampionship: Silver for @SakshiMalik after losing to Rio gold medallist Risako Kawai in freestyle 60 kg final

— TOI Sports (@toisports) May 12, 2017

Silver for @SakshiMalik as well, as she is ousted in the first round itself by TF. A little disappointing. #asianwrestlingchampionship

— Shraishth Jain (@shraishth_jain) May 12, 2017

Best off luck @SakshiMalik 👍

— Yogeshwar Dutt (@DuttYogi) May 12, 2017

#SakshiMalik loses to Japan’s #RisakoKawai in the final of 60kg category at #AsianWrestlingChampionship, wins silver pic.twitter.com/TemVncBBJK

— HT Sports (@HTSportsNews) May 12, 2017

Though the 24-year-old in her quest for the gold medal, missed by a whisker, Sakshi played out real well in her first international competition after winning the 58kg bronze medal at Rio Olympics.

Meanwhile, the other Indian women grapplers -- Ritu Phogat won bronze in Women’s freestyle 48 kg after getting a walkover by Sun Yanan of China.

#AsianWrestlingChampionship India’s @PhogatRitu wins bronze in Women’s freestyle 48 kg after getting a walkover by Sun Yanan of China

— TOI Sports (@toisports) May 12, 2017

.@PhogatRitu bags a bronze in the 48kg category #AsianWrestlingChampionship @TheQuint pic.twitter.com/IZeeBhloc0

— श्रीदा (@ShreedaAggarwal) May 12, 2017

And, Vinesh Phogat took home a silver after losing it to Sae Nanjo of Japan in Women’s freestyle 55 kg final. She was playing on her comeback from injury.

#VineshPhogat loses in the final, wins silver in 55 kg #AsianWrestlingChampionship pic.twitter.com/dNix4uuuT7

— HT Sports (@HTSportsNews) May 12, 2017

Coming back from injury with a heavily strapped knee, @phogat_vinesh making a statement here!#AsianWrestlingChampionship #vineshphogat pic.twitter.com/9BUChjYPmK

— Karishma Singh (@karishmasingh22) May 12, 2017

Divya Kakran was the third Indian girl to have made the final of the women's 69kg category.

#AsianWrestlingChampionship: #SakshiMalik, #VineshPhogat & #DivyaKakran cruise into gold medal round. pic.twitter.com/HflF7lZwz5

— All India Radio News (@airnewsalerts) May 12, 2017

READ: Olympic victor Sakshi Malik’s training included 12 years of fighting misogyny

Earlier, Sakshi in the first bout in the semis, beat Uzbekistan’s Nabira Esenbaeva 6-2 and then knocked out Ayaulym Kassymova of Kazakhstan 15-4 to enter the final, assuring herself at least a silver.

@SakshiMalik @phogat_vinesh and Divya are into the finals of #AsianWrestlingChampionship
Go Girls! All the best
RT and Spread the news pic.twitter.com/aJg8zOVfH1

— Khel India (@khel_India) May 12, 2017

Also Read: Sakshi Malik, Dipa Karmakar, Deepa Malik Get Padma Awards

We couldn’t be more prouder!

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