World U20 Wrestling Championships 2022: Sumit & Rohit Wins bronze; India Finishes with 16 Medals

Indian Greco-Roman wrestlers Sumit and Rohit Dahiya won bronze medals on the final day of the 45th edition of 2022 World U20 Wrestling Cham| S in Sofia, Bulgaria that was held between 15th August 2022 and 21st August 2022.

Highlights

• India ended the World U20 Wrestling Championships 2022 with 16 medals including 1 gold, 4 silver and 11 bronze medals.
• Rohit Dahiya, who won silver and bronze at the Asian juniors earlier in 2021, beat Ukraine’s Ruslan Abdiiev and the world cadet bronze-medallist Sumit beat Turkish wrestler Mert Iibars, a world junior bronze-medallist.
• Six Indians won medals in the men’s freestyle, which ranked India in the 3rd position in the men’s freestyle team rankings with 112 points.
• India’s Mahendra Gaikwad was the best performer in the men’s freestyle and became Ist Indian to reach the final of a junior world championship in the men’s 125kg, who won silver medal in the contest.
• Antim Panghal Becomes India’s First-Ever U-20 World Wrestling Champion.
• Antim Panghal,a 17-year-old wrestler from Haryana became the 1st Indian women to win the title of Under-20 world champion by defeating Kazakhstan’s Atlyn Shagayeva.
• This helped the Indian women finish 2nd in the women’s freestyle team rankings with 160 points after Japan with 230 points.
• Antim Panghal had won gold in the 2022 Asian Junior Championships and bronze at the 2021 Cadet World Championships.