Four Indian wrestlers reach finals of U-17 World Championships in Amman

With a dominant show, the four Indian fighters in action, including Kumari Aditi, New and PulkitThey entered the title race in the U-17 World Championshipin Amman on Wednesday.

Aditi Kumari put in an impressive performance against Ukraine’s Karolina Shperyk (10-0) and Marriem Mohamed Abdelaal (4-2) to set up her 43kg semi-final against Aleksandra Berezovskaia.

She continued her excellent run with an 8-2 victory in the semi-finals to qualify for the 43kg final with Maria Louiza Gkika of Greece.

In the 57kg category, Neha reached the semi-finals without losing a single point. She defeated her Greek rival Mairi Mani and then won by technical superiority against Georgian Miranda Kapanadze.

Her next opponent was Anna Stratan of Kazakhstan, whom she defeated 8-4 to advance to the final, where she will face So Tsuitsui of Japan.

In the 65kg category, Pulkit dominated China’s Ling Cai to win by fall, before convincingly beating Juliana Catanzaro 9-0. She then beat Egypt’s Maram Ibrahim Aly 3-0 to secure her place in the gold medal match.

She will face Daria Frolova on Thursday.

Mansi foam She reached the 73kg final conceding just two points as she defeated Lotta Englich (11-0), Piper Meredith Fowler (6-0) and Khrystyna Demchuk (12-2, by fall) en route to the final, where she will face Hanna Pirskaya.

In the GR bronze medal play-off, world number two Ronak comfortably saw off the challenge of Turkey’s Emrullah Capkan 6-1 to claim India’s first medal at the championships on Tuesday evening.

In the semi-final he lost to Hungarian Zoltan Czako, who would go on to win the silver medal. The gold medal went to Ukrainian Ivan Yankovskyi, who beat Czako by technical superiority.

Sainath Pardhi added to India’s tally by defeating Kazakhstan’s Mussan Yerassyl in the 51kg bronze play-off after winning their repechage round.