<p>Young Indian wrestler Antim Panghal's superb campaign at the World Championships culminated with a bronze medal, a performance that also earned the country a 53kg quota for the Paris Olympics.</p>.<p>The 19-year-old Panghal became only the sixth Indian woman to win a bronze medal at the Worlds with her win over Sweden's Emma Jonna Denise Malmgren, the two-time European champion.</p>.Man arrested for circulating morphed photo of Olympian woman wrestler on social media.<p> The high-scoring bout ended with a technical superiority win for the Indian, who became the first Indian wrestler -- male or female -- to lock a quota for the next year's Games.</p>.<p> Panghal raced to a 5-0 lead after beginning with a quick push-out point. Malmgren fought with a take-down move and had the Indian in her grip but somehow the Indian wriggled out.</p>.<p>A successful double-leg attack from the Swede reduced the deficit further and another two-pointer meant that Malmgren had grabbed slender 6-5 lead with six straight points.</p>.<p> Just before the end of the first period, Panghal earned a point on counter-attack to make it 6-6. </p><p>The second period belonged to Panghal as the two-time U20 champion pulled off move after move to consolidate her lead. The Swede resisted hard but the powerful Panghal employed leg-lace to quickly widen the gap and eventually won the bout by technical superiority. </p><p>With Panghal's bronze medal win, Indian women's campaign closed in the Championships. This is the only medal India has won so far.</p>.<p>The Indians are competing under the UWW flag since national federation WFI is suspended for not conducting elections on time.</p>.<p>Geeta Phogat (2012), Babita Phogat (2012), Pooja Dhanda (2018), Vinesh Phogat (2019, 2022) and Anshu Malik (silver) have won medals at the World Championships for India before.</p>.<p>Early during the day, Indian Greco Roman grappler Sajan Bhanwala lost in the opening round to a technically far superior opponent from South Korea.</p>.<p>The 82kg wrestler was no match for Yang Sejin, losing 1-3 and getting eliminated from the tournament against an opponent ranked one place lower than the Indian at No.18 in the world.</p>.<p>Indians have had a torrid time at the Worlds with only Abhimanyu (70kg) making it to the bronze-medal round in men's free-style. He had lost to Arman Andreasyan of Armenia.</p>.<p>Gurpreet Singh, the 77kg grappler, after getting a direct entry into the pre-quarterfinal lost his bout to world No.1 Levai Zoltan of Hungary in just one minute 12 seconds.</p>.<p> Zoltan, the 2022 World Championships silver medalist in Belgrade last year, achieved a victory by fall.</p>.<p>However, Gurpreet can still make it to the bronze medal round through the repechage route if Zoltan goes all the way to the final.</p>.<p>Mehar Singh, the 130kg greco-roman wrestler, too lost in the qualification round to be eliminated from the competition.</p>.<p>The 27th seeded Indian lost to 28th ranked David Ovasapyan of Armenia on technical points 0-8 in just 39 seconds. </p>
<p>Young Indian wrestler Antim Panghal's superb campaign at the World Championships culminated with a bronze medal, a performance that also earned the country a 53kg quota for the Paris Olympics.</p>.<p>The 19-year-old Panghal became only the sixth Indian woman to win a bronze medal at the Worlds with her win over Sweden's Emma Jonna Denise Malmgren, the two-time European champion.</p>.Man arrested for circulating morphed photo of Olympian woman wrestler on social media.<p> The high-scoring bout ended with a technical superiority win for the Indian, who became the first Indian wrestler -- male or female -- to lock a quota for the next year's Games.</p>.<p> Panghal raced to a 5-0 lead after beginning with a quick push-out point. Malmgren fought with a take-down move and had the Indian in her grip but somehow the Indian wriggled out.</p>.<p>A successful double-leg attack from the Swede reduced the deficit further and another two-pointer meant that Malmgren had grabbed slender 6-5 lead with six straight points.</p>.<p> Just before the end of the first period, Panghal earned a point on counter-attack to make it 6-6. </p><p>The second period belonged to Panghal as the two-time U20 champion pulled off move after move to consolidate her lead. The Swede resisted hard but the powerful Panghal employed leg-lace to quickly widen the gap and eventually won the bout by technical superiority. </p><p>With Panghal's bronze medal win, Indian women's campaign closed in the Championships. This is the only medal India has won so far.</p>.<p>The Indians are competing under the UWW flag since national federation WFI is suspended for not conducting elections on time.</p>.<p>Geeta Phogat (2012), Babita Phogat (2012), Pooja Dhanda (2018), Vinesh Phogat (2019, 2022) and Anshu Malik (silver) have won medals at the World Championships for India before.</p>.<p>Early during the day, Indian Greco Roman grappler Sajan Bhanwala lost in the opening round to a technically far superior opponent from South Korea.</p>.<p>The 82kg wrestler was no match for Yang Sejin, losing 1-3 and getting eliminated from the tournament against an opponent ranked one place lower than the Indian at No.18 in the world.</p>.<p>Indians have had a torrid time at the Worlds with only Abhimanyu (70kg) making it to the bronze-medal round in men's free-style. He had lost to Arman Andreasyan of Armenia.</p>.<p>Gurpreet Singh, the 77kg grappler, after getting a direct entry into the pre-quarterfinal lost his bout to world No.1 Levai Zoltan of Hungary in just one minute 12 seconds.</p>.<p> Zoltan, the 2022 World Championships silver medalist in Belgrade last year, achieved a victory by fall.</p>.<p>However, Gurpreet can still make it to the bronze medal round through the repechage route if Zoltan goes all the way to the final.</p>.<p>Mehar Singh, the 130kg greco-roman wrestler, too lost in the qualification round to be eliminated from the competition.</p>.<p>The 27th seeded Indian lost to 28th ranked David Ovasapyan of Armenia on technical points 0-8 in just 39 seconds. </p>