Mansi to fight for bronze, four others ousted from junior Worlds

Mansi was the lone Indian grappler to reach the medal round on an otherwise disappointing day for the Indian camp at the Junior World Wrestling Championship here on Thursday.

Mansi had an impressive run till the semifinals in the women's 57kg category, winning both her bouts by technical superiority but lost by the fall to Andoriahanako Sawa.

She will now fight it out with the winner of the bout between Germany's Serena Boelke and Hannah Fay Taylor from Canada.

Karuna still has a chance to make it to the bronze medal round. She has to beat Poland's Kamila Czeslawa Kulwicka in the repechage round. She had a poor start, losing by technical superiority to the French grappler Koumba Selene Fanta.

The other Indians struggled on the mat as Swati Shinde lost her 1/8 round 3-14 to Russia's Mariia Tiumetekova in the 53kg.

In the 62kg, Radhika was outplayed 2-8 by Russia's Daria Bobrulko in the quarterfinals.

Jaspreet Kaur could not even go beyond the qualification round, losing by fall to Turkey's Asli Demir.

Sonika Hooda lost her quarterfinal 1-5 to Korea's Hyeonyeong Park.