Antim Panghal wins historic Jr World Wrestling gold

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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