File picture of Vinesh Phogat.© Instagram
India’s two-time Olympian Vinesh Phogat has reached the ultimate of the ladies’s 50kg class within the Grand Prix of Spain worldwide continental wrestling championship right here on Saturday. Vinesh, who had reached Madrid after making a last-minute attraction to get her Spanish Visa which was delayed and acquired it just a few hours earlier than her departure, simply gained three bouts within the Ladies’s 50kg class to storm into the ultimate. She’s going to meet Mariia Tiumerekova, a former Russian wrestler who’s now representing the Particular person Impartial Athletes (AIN).
Vinesh, who participated within the Tokyo Olympic Video games within the girls’s 53kg, began the day with a Spherical 1 win towards Yusneylis Guzman, a Pan-American and Central American championships winner from Cuba. Vinesh acquired the higher of the Cuban wrestler 12-4 on factors.
Within the quarterfinals, the 29-year-old from Charkhi Dadri, Haryana, pinned Madison Parks of Canada, a silver medallist on the 2022 Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham. Within the semifinals, Vinesh defeated one other Canadian Katie Dutchak 9-4 to seal a spot within the remaining.
After the Grand Prix of Spain, Vinesh will attend a camp in Spain and attain France properly earlier than the Paris Olympic Video games, which is able to begin on July 26.
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