India’s Antim Panghal made history on Friday, winning gold in the women’s 53kg category at the Junior World Wrestling Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.
She defeated Kazakhstan’s Atlyn Shagayeva 8-0 final to emerge the first Indian to win gold in the competition’s 34-year long history.
The 17-year-old from Haryana’s Bhagana village in Hisar district easily won all her rounds, which included the scalp of European champion Olivia Andrich 11-0 by technical superiority.
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