Putting apart the psychological and bodily struggles that pegged her again, an intimidating Vinesh Phogat pounced on her rivals to finish a hat-trick of CWG gold medals whereas Ravi Dahiya too went unchallenged in his gold-winning present, right here on Saturday.
Vinesh grew to become the primary Indian girl wrestler to win three consecutive Commonwealth Games gold medal.
In what was anticipated to be a tricky opener towards world championship bronze medalist Samantha Leigh Stewart, Vinesh diminished it to a no contest and completed it in mere 36 seconds.
Vinesh had the Canadian in a head lock from the place she pushed her on the mat and very quickly pinned her rival.
Even earlier than individuals might heat as much as the competition, it was throughout.
GOLD HATTRICK FOR VINESH@Phogat_Vinesh has scripted historical past but once more, from being the 1️⃣st Indian girl ️ to win GOLD at each CWG & Asian Games, to grow to be the 1️⃣st Indian girl ️ to bag 3 consecutive GOLD🥇at #CommonwealthGames
️GOLD by VICTORY BY FALL
1/1 pic.twitter.com/CeeGYqJ0RT— SAI Media (@Media_SAI) August 6, 2022
Next up for the 27-year-old Vinesh was Nigeria’s Mercy Bolafunoluwa Adekuoroye, who tried to withstand a bit however quickly the Indian had her in an iron grip. Vinesh stored her in that place for greater than a minute in an impressive present of energy, successful 6-0.
With solely 4 wrestlers within the ladies’s 53kg draw, Vinesh now wanted to beat Sri Lanka’s Chamodya Keshani Maduravlage Don and she or he did it in fashion, successful ‘by fall’ to clinch her third successive gold.
Vinesh has been struggling for kind and health ever since her defeat on the Tokyo Games, the place she made a shock first-round exit after coming into the sector as the recent favourite for the gold medal.
Tokyo Games silver medalist Ravi was additionally too good for the 57kg discipline. He received each his bouts — towards Suraj Singh of New Zealand and Pakistan’s Asad Ali — by technical superiority en path to the ultimate.
RAVI WINS G🔥LD
3 time Asian Champion & #Tokyo2020 Olympics medalist ️ @ravidahiya60 (M-57kg) has now conquered the #CommonwealthGamessuccessful gold on his debut
Brilliant Gutwrench & successful by technical superiority, that is stoic & decided RAVI for you
1/1 pic.twitter.com/UhLFq7c8od— SAI Media (@Media_SAI) August 6, 2022
In the ultimate, Nigeria’s Ebikewenimo Welson confirmed the intent to struggle however the degree at which Ravi wrestles, it was a tricky job.
Ravi foiled a proper leg assault and on subsequent strive of the Nigerian, he scored on counter-attack, effecting a take-down transfer with ease.
Soon he had trapped Welson in leg-lace and rolled him thrice for a 8-0 lead. Ravi accomplished the formality with one other take-down.
Also preventing for gold is Naveen (74kg), who started with TSU wins over Nigeria’s Ogbonna Emmanuel John, Singapore’s Hong Yeow Lou and England’s Charlie James Bowling.
He will subsequent struggle it out with Pakistan’s Tahir Muhammad Sharif.
In ladies’s 50kg, Pooja Gehlot made a assured begin with a TSU win over Scotland’s Christelle Lemofack Letchidjio after which obtained a stroll over from Cameron’s Rebecca Ndolo Muambo to make the semifinal stage with ease.
However, she misplaced the last-four conflict 6-9 to Canada’s Madison Bianca Parks and can now struggle for bronze towards the Scottish participant. Since solely six wrestlers featured on this class, it was competed in Nordic fashion the place all wrestlers, divided into two teams, competed as soon as towards one another.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
