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India wrestler Sarita Mor assured of silver medal
Updated On: 06 March, 2021 08:24 AM IST | Rome | PTI
The 19-year-old is now up against Italy's Francesca Indelicato in the bronze play-off

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Asian Championship gold medallist Sarita Mor assured herself of at least a silver by reaching the women's 57kg final while India's Greco Roman wrestlers Neeraj and Naveen bagged bronze medals in the UWW Ranking Series event -- Matteo Pellicone -- here on Friday. The 25-year-old Sarita, who won 59kg gold in Asian Championship in Delhi last year, won both her bouts in dominant fashion. She first outplayed Kazakhstan's Altynay Satylgan 4-1 in the quarterfinals and then followed it up with a victory by fall against Emma Tissinma, also a Kazkah.
Sarita will now fight for gold against Brazil's Giullia Rodrigues, who prevented an all-India final by defeating Anshu Malik 10-7 in the other semifinal. Talented Anshu Malik, who is making a transition from junior to senior level and also won a bronze in senior Asian championship in Delhi, scored a confident 11-6 win over Evelina Georgieva Nikolova from Bulgaria in the quarterfinals before losing to Giullia. The 19-year-old is now up against Italy's Francesca Indelicato in the bronze play-off. In the 68kg, Nisha lost the chance to be in the medal round after losing her repechage contest 2-3 to America's Alexandria Junis Glaude. 2018 Asian Games medallist Divya Kakran is not competing since she had lost the trials. Kiran lost her 76kg quarterfinal to Elmira Syzdykova 3-10 to bow out of competition.


