Young Indian wrestler Sonam Malik staved off a spirited problem from China’s Jia Long to win a bronze medal within the ladies’s 62kg on the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Friday. In a bout through which the 2 wresters have been locked 4-4 and the Chinese was forward on standards, Sonam effected an important take-down transfer with simply 25 seconds left within the bronze play-off to emerge a 7-5 winner. (Asian Games 2023 Medals Tally | Asian Games 2023 Full Schedule)

This is India’s third wrestling bronze medal for India on this version of the Games with Sunil Kumar (Greco Roman) and Antim Panghal (ladies’s 53kg) profitable earlier.

Kiran (ladies’s 76kg), Aman Sehrawat (males’s 57kg) and Bajrang Punia (males’s 65kg) are additionally in rivalry for bronze medal later within the day.

Indians disappoint in canoe and kayak occasions

India’s Vishal Kewat completed seventh in males’s canoe slalom occasion, whereas Shikha Chouhan ended sixth in ladies’s kayak remaining on the Asian Games on Friday.

In the boys’s canoe remaining, Vishal completed with a timing of 135.12s, 140.92s behind the winner.

Yuancong Xie of China (98.20s) received the gold, whereas Uzbekistan’s Anvar Klevleev and Alexandr Kulikov of Kazakhstan bagged the silver and bronze medals respectively on the Fuyang Water Sports Centre.

In ladies’s kayak remaining, Shikha clocked 167.24s.

Chinese Taipei’s Chu-Han Chang clinched the gold medal, whereas the silver went to Lu Li of China. The bronze was received by Yekaterina Tarantseva of Kazakhstan. India’s Shubham Kewat and Hitesh Kewat will compete within the males’s kayak remaining on Saturday.

India has received just one medal, a bronze in 1994 Hiroshima Games.

In the final version in Jakarta, the Indians made eight finals throughout slalom and dash occasions however did not safe any medal.

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