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India’s Mansi Lather, Pulkit, Neha Sangwan and Aditi Kumari won gold medals in the women’s freestyle events at the 2024 U17 World Wrestling Championships.
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India had a brilliant night at the U17 World Wrestling Championships on Thursday as four women wrestlers won gold medals. Mansi Lather (women’s freestyle 73kg), Pulkit (women’s freestyle 65kg), Neha Sangwan (women’s freestyle 57kg) and Aditi Kumari (women’s freestyle 43kg) won gold medals. In total, India has won six medals in the competition so far, including two bronze medals by Ronak Dahiya (Greco-Roman 110kg) and Sainath Pardhi (Greco-Roman 51kg).
The World Championships will be held at the Princess Sumaya Bint al-Hasan Arena in Amman, Jordan. They began on August 19 and will run until Sunday, August 25.
The competition includes fights in all disciplines, men’s freestyle, Greco-Roman and women’s freestyle, with medals to be won in 10 different weight classes in each of these disciplines. Four medals are awarded per weight class.
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43 kg – Aditi KUMARI
57 kg – NEHA
65kg – PULKIT
73kg – Mansi LATHERIndian wins four gold medals at U17 World Championships#Wrestling #wrestleamman pic.twitter.com/X4gYecmXdC
— United World Wrestling (@wrestling) 23 August 2024
Indian wrestlers are participating in 29 of the 30 medal events, including ten in Greco-Roman wrestling, ten in men’s freestyle wrestling and nine in women’s freestyle wrestling.
At last year’s championships, India won one gold, seven silver and three bronze medals, making a total of eleven medals.
After her gold medal win, Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini congratulated Neha on X.
The price is 57 kg जॉर्डन की राजधानी अमाम में चल रहे UNDER 17 WORLD WRESTLING में गोल्ड मेडल जीत के देश का नाम रोशन किया।
मेरी ओर से उन्हें बहुत-बहुत बधाई एवं उज्जवल भव. िष्य की शुभकामनाएं🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/2r2AjKM9ha
— Nayab Saini (@NayabSainiBJP) 23 August 2024
Indian wrestlers at the 2024 U17 World Wrestling Championships:
Freestyle Women: Bala Raj (40kg), Aditi Kumari (43kg), Shrutika Patil (46kg), Muskan (53kg), Neha Sangwan (57kg), Rajnita (61kg), Pulkit (65kg), Kajal (69kg ), Mansi Lather (73 kg).
Men’s Freestyle: Shivam (45kg), Harsh (48kg), Kartik (51kg), Jaiveer Singh (55kg), Sitender (60kg), Sagar (65kg), Nishant Ruhil (71kg), Vevik (80kg), Sunny (92kg), Jaspooran Singh (110kg)
Greco-Roman: Kedar Kamble (45kg), Bikash Kacchap (48kg), Sainath Pardhi (51kg), Samarth Mhakave (55kg), Gaurav (60kg), Anuj (65kg), Sachin Kumar (71kg), Nishant Phogat ( 80kg), Lucky (92kg) , Ronak Dahiya (110kg).
With agency contributions
