16-year-old wrestler Neha Sangwan from Vinesh Phogat’s village is U-17 world champ
Chandigarh, August 23
Women wrestlers continue to raise the Indian Tricolour high at the ongoing U-17 World Wrestling Championships as four gold medals were secured by the contingent.
The World Championships are being held at the Princess Sumaya Bint al-Hasan Arena in Amman, Jordan. They began on August 19 and will end on August 25.
For India, Mansi Lather (women's freestyle 73 kg), Pulkit (women's freestyle 65 kg), Neha Sangwan (women's freestyle 57 kg) and Aditi Kumari (women's freestyle 43 kg) secured gold medals, as per Olympics.com.
Neha Sangwan belongs to the same village, Baliya, as wrestler Vinesh Phogat.
Taking to X, Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini congratulated Neha.
बलाली गांव की लाडली बेटी नेहा सांगवान ने 57 KG में जॉर्डन की राजधानी अमाम में चल रहे UNDER 17 WORLD WRESTLING में गोल्ड मेडल जीत के देश का नाम रोशन किया।
मेरी ओर से उन्हें बहुत-बहुत बधाई एवं उज्जवल भविष्य की शुभकामनाएं🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/2r2AjKM9ha
— Nayab Saini (@NayabSainiBJP) August 23, 2024
India has secured six medals in the competition, including two bronze medals by Ronak Dahiya (greco-roman 110 kg) and Sainath Pardhi (greco-roman 51 kg).
The matches are taking place in all disciplines, men's freestyle, Greco-Roman and women's freestyle with each of them offering medals in 10 different weight categories. Four medals per weight category are being awarded.
Indian wrestlers are competing in 29 of the 30 medal events, with 10 in greco-roman, 10 in men's freestyle wrestling and nine in women's freestyle.
At the last year's championships, India had secured one gold, seven silver and three bronze medals, making it 11 medals. With ANI inputs
