Indian Women Wrestlers Win 4 Gold Medals At U17 World Wrestling Championships

Women wrestlers shined at the ongoing U17 World Wrestling Championships on Thursday by winning four gold medals.

For India, Mansi Lather (women’s freestyle 73 kg), Pulkit (women’s freestyle 65 kg), Neha Sangwan (women’s freestyle 57 kg) and Aditi Kumari (women’s freestyle 43 kg) secured gold medals, reported Olympics.com.

So far, India has secured six medals in the tournament. The medals include two bronze medals by Ronak Dahiya (greco-roman 110 kg) and Sainath Pardhi (greco-roman 51 kg).

The World Championships are being held at the Princess Sumaya Bint al-Hasan Arena in Amman, Jordan from August 19 to August 25.

Indian wrestlers are competing in 29 of 30 medal events, with 10 in greco-roman, 10 in men’s freestyle wrestling and nine in women’s freestyle.

At the last year’s championships, India had secured one gold, seven silver and three bronze medals, making it 11 medals.