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Ritu Phogat bags silver at U-23 Senior World Wrestling Championship

News Agencies 25 November 2017, 11:04 IST

Ritu Phogat bags silver at U-23 Senior World Wrestling Championship

Female wrestler Ritu Phogat bagged the silver medal in U-23 Senior World Wrestling Championship being held at Poland.

Phogat defeated Bulgarian Wrestler Selishka by 4-2 points in the quarterfinal and defeated Chinese Wrestler Jiang Zhu by 4-3 points in the semifinal.

In Gold Medal bout, Ritu Phogat unfortunately lost the bout from Turkish Wrestler Demirhan by 4-4 points. Ritu had recently won the National championship in Indore.

In May, Phogat won a bronze medal at the Asian Championships. 

-ANI

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