Seema Bisla on Friday grew to become the fourth Indian girl wrestler to qualify for the Tokyo Games by reaching the ultimate of the 50kg competitors at the same time as Sumit Malik settled for a silver medal after conceding his last bout because of a knee harm on the World Olympic Qualifiers, right here. Seema booked an Olympic berth for herself after a detailed 2-1 win over European Championship bronze medallist Anna Lukasiak of Poland, displaying large defensive abilities within the semifinal. After giving freely some extent on passivity, Seema pulled off a fast take down within the first interval for a 2-1 lead, which she stored until the tip to earn the quota. She will now struggle for gold towards Ecuador’s Lucia Yamileth Yepez Guzman on Saturday.
The 29-year-old is the fourth Indian to qualify for the Games after celebrated Vinesh Phogat (53kg), Anshu Malik (57kg) and Sonam Malik (62kg).
It might be first time that 4 Indian girls wrestlers will compete within the Olympics. In the 2106 version, three Indian girls wrestlers had competed.
Nisha (68kg) and Pooja (76kg), nevertheless, did not win quota after shedding their respective bouts.
Meanwhile, Malik, who had change into solely the fourth males’s free model wrestler to qualify for the Olympics, didn’t take the mat for his 125kg gold medal struggle towards Russia’s Sergei Kozyrev, the 2018 Youth Olympic champion, because of harm.
National coach Jagmander Singh instructed PTI that Malik had injured his proper knee throughout follow on the nationwide camp a number of weeks again and competed solely as a result of an Olympic quota was at stake.
“There is a minor ligament harm and we didn’t worsen it since he had already locked the Olympic quota. He had competed in Almaty final month (Asian Championships and Olympic qualifiers) with this harm,” he said.
“This was one last chance to get the Olympic quota, so he competed. He came here without much practice and winning four bouts was remarkable,” he added.
Earlier within the day, Seema, who gained a bronze on the current Asian Championship in Almaty, was stable in her defence towards Belarus’ Anastasiya Yanotava and logged 4 factors in every of the intervals to win her pre-quarterfinal 8-0.
The Indian was extra dominant towards Sweden’s Emma Jonna Denise Malmgren whom she pinned with 43 seconds to spare to win the bout.
Seema used her energy higher and stayed aggressive. She was main 10-2 when she discovered a approach to pin her rival.
Nisha misplaced her quarterfinal bout towards the immensely highly effective Bulgarian Mimi Hristova by technical superiority. The Bulgarian pulled off a wide ranging four-point throw after which Nisha couldn’t discover a approach to break her rival’s defence.
Nisha had gained her opening bout by fall towards Poland’s Natalia Iwona Strzalka.
Pooja, the third Indian within the competitors, fizzled out in her opening bout, shedding 3-4 to Lithuania’s Kamile Gaucaite.
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