Sakshi Malik enters finals at Asian Wrestling Championship

12 May, New Delhi

Rio Olympics bronze medallist woman wrestler Sakshi Malik assured herself of a silver medal after reaching the finals at the Asian Wrestling Championship in New Delhi Friday.

The 24-year-old from Haryana defeated Ayaulym Kassymova of Kazakhstan to enter the finals.

She had advanced to the semi-final after beating Uzbek grappler Nabira Esenbaeva 6-2 in the quarterfinal bout.

Sakshi will face Olympic gold medallist Japan’s Risako Kawai in the finals.