Vinesh is one of India’s finest female wrestlers: Geeta Phogat

TIL Desk Sports/ Geeta Phogat, who won Indias first-ever gold medal in women’s wrestling at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, lauded India’s performance at the just-concluded World wrestling championships, saying she is very hopeful of the contingent doing well in Tokyo Olympics next year. Four wrestlers bagged medals and as many Olympic quota places from the World Championships held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.

While Vinesh Phogat was the sole Indian woman wrestler to bag a medal when she won the bronze medal in the 53kg category, Deepak Punia settled for silver in the men’s freestyle 86kg category after not being able to play in the final due to injuries. Bajrang Punia claimed the bronze medal in the 65kg category, while Ravi Kumar also won bronze in the 57kg category.

“It’s a great achievement that they have qualified in the first round of qualification and won medals too. This is a big thing. Going by this performance, we can gauge how well they will do in the Olympics. I am really hopeful we will get medals in Tokyo,” Geeta told.