Vinesh to fight for gold in Asian Wrestling championship

Vinesh made it to the gold-medal round in women's freestyle 48kg division, while Narsingh Pancham Yadav bagged a bronze in men's 74kg category of the Senior Asian Wrestling championship in Doha today.
Vinesh put up an impressive show, while Narsingh was lucky to have reached the bronze medal play-off despite losing in the qualification round.
On her way to the final, Vinesh comfortably beat Tatyana Amanzhol-Bakatyuk of Kazakhstan in the semifinals after getting the better of Mongolia's Tsogtbaatar Byambazaya in quarterfinals 8-0.
Narsingh, who has been included in 74kg category in the absence of double-Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar, lost to Daisuke Shimada of Japan 9-12 in the qualification round but could make it to repachage as his Japanese opponent reached the final.

During his repachage bout, Narsingh defeated Byungmin Kong of Korea 15-4 to enter the bronze-medal play-off. He then bagged 3-1 classification points to clinch the bronze medal after outplaying Zhiger Zakirov of Kazakhstan.
In Men's 70kg category, Parveen Rana missed out on a third-place finish as he went down fighting to Takafumi Kojima of Japan in the bronze medal play-off.

Rana had earlier lost to Uzbekistan's Bekzod Abdurakhmonov 8-13 by Fall in the semifinals.
En-route to the semis, however, Rana did well to beat Tat Du Can of Vietnam 12-2 in his quarterfinal bout after clearing the qualification round against Sri Lanka's Shanaka Madushanka Ranwalage by fall, 2-0.

Meanwhile, other Indians in the fray today -- Sonu and Khatri Mausum -- failed to make it to the medal round.
In Men's 61kg category, Sonu was defeated by Masakazu Kamoi of Japan 5-1 in the qualification round itself, while Japan's Takeshi Yamaguchi defeated Khatri Mausam 10-6 in the quarterfinals of 97kg category.
Mausam got the better of CUI Xiaocheng of China 8-0 in the qualification round earlier.