Anshu Malik (57 kg) and Under-23 world champion Ritika secured their places for the Paris Olympics by reaching the finals with strong performances.

Olympics News in Hindi: India's star wrestler Vinesh Phogat made a strong comeback at the international level after a long protest against former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in the Asian Olympic Qualifiers. On the basis of her performance, she has qualified for the Paris Olympics in the women's 50 kg category. Achieved the quota. Anshu Malik (57 kg) and Under-23 world champion Ritika (76 kg) also performed strongly and secured their places for the Paris Olympics by reaching the finals.

India now has four quota places for the Paris Olympics. Panghal had won the bronze medal for the first time in the 53 kg category in the World Championships last year. It will be interesting to see if the WFI allows quota winners to represent India or conduct final selection trials to select the national wrestling team.

At the Tokyo Olympics, India fielded a seven-strong team, including four women in Seema Bisla (50kg), Vinesh (53kg), Anshu (57kg) and Sonam Malik (62kg). So far no male wrestler has been able to achieve the Paris quota. The last world qualifier of the Paris Olympics will be played in Turkey from May 9.

This is 29-year-old Vinesh's third consecutive Olympic quota. He also participated in the 2016 Rio Olympics and 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Vinesh left her rivals behind with a strong performance. First of all, he defeated his rival Miran Cheon of Korea in a match that lasted one minute 39 seconds. The opponent had no answer to his strong grip. In the next match, she defeated Esmanang Dit of Cambodia in 67 seconds to enter the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, 19-year-old Laura Ganikji of Kazakhstan presented a slight challenge to her, but the Indian wrestler used her experience to defeat her young opponent. Vinesh led 4-0 in the first period and reached the second period for the first time in this tournament. Once she became dominant, Vinesh had no problem in defeating her.

After winning the selection trials, Vinesh is playing in the 50 kg category. The finalists will get a quota for their country. World Championships 2021 silver medalist Anshu entered the quarterfinals directly after defeating Kyrgyzstan's Kalmira Bilimbekova on technical superiority. Anshu continued her impressive performance with a technical superiority over Uzbekistan's Lelokhova Soboyarova in the semi-finals.

Under-23 world champion Ritika (76 kg) defeated Yunzhu Huang. He won the first round on the basis of technical superiority. After this, Mongolia's Davanasan Enkh Emaar also had to face a similar defeat. He won the last group match against Zhuang Wang of China 8–2. In the semi-finals, Ritika easily defeated Sizz Chang of Chinese Taipei 7-0.

Mansi Ahlawat (62kg) also reached the last four as she needed just one win. She defeated Irina Kuznetsova of Kazakhstan 6-6. hit by 4

Only Indian wrestler Nisha Dahiya (68 kg) could not make it to the semi-finals. He defeated Sol Ghum Pak of North Korea 8-3 in the first round. After this she lost to Miriam Jumanazarova of Kyrgyzstan. In the third round, she was defeated by Yelena Shalygina of Kyrgyzstan.

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