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Rio Olympics bronze medallist Sakshi Malik won her first international gold medal in almost five years at the Bolat Turlykhanov Cup wrestling tournament- a UWW Ranking Series event - at Almaty in Kazakhstan on Friday. India’s Mansi Ahlawat and Divya Kakran also finished at the top of the podium in their respective weight categories.

Sakshi Malik began with a win by technical superiority against Kazakhstan’s Irina Kuznetsova and followed that up with a 9-3 win over Uzbekistan’s Rushana Abdirasulova. As Mongolia’s Tserenchimed Sukhee forfeited her semifinal, Sakshi entered the final, where she pinned Irina Kuznetsova while leading 7-4, beating the home wrestler for a second time in the day.

The last time Sakshi Malik won a gold was



at the 2017 Commonwealth Championship even as she won two bronze medals at the Asian Championships in 2020 and 2022.

Mansi won her final bout 3-0 against Kazakshtan’s Emma Tissina in 57 kilogram category. Divya won two of her bouts by fall - against Mongolia’s Delgermaa Enkhsaikhan and Kazakhstan’s Albina Kairgeldinova - but lost the final bout 10-14 to Mongolia’s Bolortungalag Zorigt in the four-wrestler 68kg category. Zorigt also finished with two wins and a defeat against Delgermaa but since Divya had more convincing results, she was declared the winner.

India now have won four medals with Greco Roman wrestler Neeraj winning a bronze in 63kg category on Thursday. 




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