Pooja wins silver, Sajan loses in last-4

CHANDIGARH:Pooja Gehlot settled for silver in the womenrsquos 53kg event at the U23 World Wrestling Championships in Budapest after going down to 2017 senior world champion Haruna Okuno of Japan

Updated At : 01:12 PM Nov 02, 2019 IST

Pooja Gehlot lost to Japan’s Haruna Okuno in the final.

Chandigarh, November 1

Pooja Gehlot settled for silver in the women’s 53kg event at the U-23 World Wrestling Championships in Budapest after going down to 2017 senior world champion Haruna Okuno of Japan. Pooja lost 0-2 (victory by fall) in the final.

This is the second medal — both silver — for India at this year’s edition. Ravinder had finished second in the men’s freestyle 61kg.

Pooja had entered the final after a 8-4 victory against Turkey’s Zeynep Yetgil in the semifinals.

Three-time World Junior Wrestling Championships medallist Sajan Bhanwal lost 4-5 to Kodai Sakuraba of Japan in the semifinals of the 77kg Greco-Roman event. The Kharkhauda wrestler will now fight for bronze. Bhanwal beat Per Albin Olofsson of Sweden 6-2 to enter the semifinals. —TNS