Asian wrestling: Sarita Mor, Sushma Shokeen win bronze

ULAANBAATAR: Indian wrestlers Sarita Mor and Sushma Shokeen won bronze medals in their respective women's freestyle weight categories at the 2022 Asian Wrestling Championships, here on Thursday.

The 27-year-old Mor won two of her four group matches in the 59kg division to finish third in the field of five wrestlers. She lost to eventual gold medallist Sara Natami of Japan via technical superiority and suffered a narrow 1-2 loss to three-time World Championship medallist Shoovdor Baatarjav of Mongolia in her first two matches.

However, Mor bounced back to defeat Dilfuza Aimbetova of Uzbekistan via technical superiority and Diana Kayumova of Kazakhstan 5-2 to take bronze.

On the other hand, Sushma Shokeen's 55kg category was also competed in the Nordic round system (each wrestler facing others in a round-robin format) as the field was less than six wrestlers. IANS

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