U17 Wreslting World Championships: Ronak wins bronze, 4 women in finals

Amman (Jordan), August 21

Ronak Dahiya bagged a bronze medal in the 110kg Greco-Roman category of the U17 World Wrestling Championship. Ronak, ranked second in the world, comfortably disposed of the challenge of Turkey’s Emrullah Capkan, winning 6-1 to claim India’s first medal from the championship on Tuesday night.

He had lost to Zoltan Czako of Hungary in the semifinal. The gold was won

by Ukraine’s Ivan Yankovskyi, who beat Czako by technical superiority.

Sainath Pardhi added to India’s tally by beating Kazakhstan’s Mussan Yerassyl in the 51kg bronze playoff, having come through the repechage round.

Women show the way

Putting up a dominant show, all four Indian women wrestlers in action got themselves in title contention.

Aditi Kumari put up an impressive show against Ukraine’s Karolina Shperyk (10-0) and Marriem Mohamed Abdelaal (4-2) to set up the 43kg semifinal against Aleksandra Berezovskaia. She carried forward her terrific run with an 8-2 win in the semifinals to set up the final with Maria Louiza Gkika from Greece.

In the 57kg class, Neha made it to the semifinals without losing a point. She pinned Greek rival Mairi Mani and then won by technical superiority against Georgia’s Miranda Kapanadze. She won 8-4 against Kazakhstan’s Anna Stratan to move to the final where she will face Japan’s So Tsuitsui.

In the 65kg category, Pulkit dominated China’s Ling Cai for ‘win by fall’ and followed that up with a commanding 9-0 victory against Juliana Catanzaro. She then blanked Egypt’s Maram Ibrahim Aly 3-0 to seal her place in the gold medal bout. She will face Daria Frolova on Thursday.

Mansi Lather made the 73kg final by conceding just two points as she beat Lotta Englich (11-0), Piper Meredith Fowler (6-0) and Khrystyna Demchuk (12-2, by fall) en route to the final, where she will meet Hanna Pirskaya.