A file picture of wrestler Vinesh Phogat
| Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap
Looking as dominant as ever, Vinesh Phogat made full use of a simple draw to demolish her opponents, putting herself one win away from securing a Paris Olympics quota, whereas Anshu Malik and U23 world champion Reetika too made it to the semifinals on the Asian Olympic Qualifier, in Bishkek on April 20.
Vinesh, as is her wont, appeared for that one alternative to subdue her Korean rival and grabbed it after measuring Miran Cheon for about 30 seconds in her opening bout.
Once she grabbed Cheon and pushed her down for a take down, the bout led to a jiffy, in a single minute and 39 seconds.
It was tough to wriggle out of Vinesh’s sturdy maintain. The Indian employed intestine wrench transfer thrice and combined that with one ‘expose’ to end the bout.
The subsequent bout lasted a mere 67 seconds. Cambodia’s Smanang Dit was a simple prey. Vinesh pinned her very quickly to transfer to the ladies’s 50kg semifinal.
Vinesh is competing in 50kg class after profitable the choice trials. Even if she misses the possibility, she will later be in rivalry for a berth in 53kg the place Antim Panghal has already secured a quota. Antim could also be requested to seem in a single ultimate trial to show her price.
The finalists at this competitors will win quota for his or her respective international locations.
The 2021 World Championship silver medallist Anshu Malik obtained a direct entry into the quarterfinals and she had no downside in anyway to put it throughout Kyrgyzstan’s Kalmira Bilimbekova by technical superiority.
U23 world champion Reetika (76kg) didn’t have to break a lot sweat in outclassing Eunju Hwang. She gained the primary spherical by technical superiority because the Korean had no reply to Reetika’s class and obtained the same win beneath belt in opposition to Mongolia’s Davaanasan Enkh Amar.
In the ultimate group bout in opposition to China’s Juang Wang, Reetika raced to a 8-0 lead however the Chinese fought again and logged six straight factors. She effected one other transfer on the dying moments however a lot to the aid of Indian camp, that time was not awarded as a result of it got here on the finish of stipulated time on clock.
Mansi Ahlawat (62kg) additionally made it to last-four as she wanted to win only one bout. Up in opposition to Kazakhstan’s Irina Kuznetsova, she emerged a 6-4 winner.
The solely Indian wrestler who couldn’t attain the semifinals was Nisha Dahiya (68kg).
Nisha had to work laborious for her opening win in opposition to Sol Gum Pak from North Korea. The Indian had raced to a 5-0 lead and maintained that until the primary interval, however the Korean put the stress again on her rival with a powerful resistance.
Immediately in the beginning of the second interval, Pak efficiently obtained a take-down transfer to get on the scoreboard. However, Nisha stored pushing Pak out to lengthen her lead and finally gained 8-3.
Already exhausted, Nisha was outclassed by native favorite Meerim Zhumanazarova in spherical 2, wherein she suffered a heavy defeat. After falling behind 1-9, she was pinned by Meerim. She may hardly make use of any attacking transfer, and was largely concerned in standing wrestling.
In the must-win spherical 3, Nisha overpowered Kazakhstan’s Yelena Shalygina however with Meerim dropping her ultimate group bout, Nisha didn’t have sufficient factors to keep in top-four.
The final likelihood to win Paris Games quota can be at World Qualifiers in Turkey from May 9.
