Vinesh Phogat celebrates her victory within the girls’s freestyle 50kg wrestling semifinal match in opposition to Cuba’s Yusneylis Guzman Lopezi on the Paris Olympic Video games 2024, on August 6, 2024. Vinesh wins 5-0.
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Vinesh Phogat made historical past. With Himalayan willpower, the two-time World championships medallist overcame odds galore to reach her third Olympics, by reaching the ultimate of the ladies’s 50kg remaining. She was the primary Indian lady wrestler to take action.

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After gorgeous World and Olympic champion Yui Susaki 3-2 within the opening spherical, Vinesh defeated Oksana Livach 7-4 within the quarterfinals and Cuba’s Yusneylis Guzman 5-0 within the semifinals to turn into the second Indian lady wrestler to safe an Olympic medal after Sakshi Malik.

By the way, each Vinesh and Sakshi have been the 2 distinguished faces of wrestlers’ protest in opposition to alleged sexual harassment by the previous Wrestling Federation of India high brass.

Vinesh gained from the Cuban’s passivity to steer 1-0 after the primary interval and employed a proper leg assault to impact a takedown for a 3-0 lead and gathered two extra factors to make it 5-0 and go into the historical past books.