Sakshi Malik enters final at Asian Wrestling Championships

Rio Olympics bronze medallist woman wrestler Sakshi Malik (60kg) assured herself of a silver medal after reaching the finals at the Asian Wrestling Championship in New Delhi on Friday.

The 24-year-old from Haryana defeated Ayaulym Kassymova of Kazakhstan to enter the finals. She had advanced to the semifinal after beating Uzbek grappler Nabira Esenbaeva 6-2 in the quarterfinal bout.

Sakshi will face Olympic gold medallist Japan’s Risako Kawai in the finals.

Sakshi had become the first Indian female wrestler to win a medal at the Olympics when she clinched the bronze in the 58 kg category at Rio Games.