World C'ship: Narsingh Yadav's wife Shilpi, three more female wrestlers lose

24 August,2017 01:15 PM IST |  Paris  |  PTI

Maharashtra wrestler Narsingh Yadav's wife Shilpi Sheoran missed out on a chance to enter the bronze medal play-off round in the women's 63kg after losing her repechage bout to Henna Johansson of Sweden at the World Wrestling Championship



Shilpi Sheoran

Maharashtra wrestler Narsingh Yadav's wife Shilpi Sheoran missed out on a chance to enter the bronze medal play-off round in the women's 63kg after losing her repechage bout to Henna Johansson of Sweden at the World Wrestling Championships here yesterday. Three other Indian women too came a cropper. India are still without a medal after three days of the competition.

Shilpi went down to Johansson by a 'fall' verdict in her repechage round to crash out of the tournament .

Earlier, other Indians in the fray - Lalita (55kg), Pooja Dhanda (58kg) and Pooja (75kg) had lost their respective bouts in the Round of 16.

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