Ritu gets silver in U-23 Senior World Wrestling Championship

NEW DELHI: India wrestler Ritu Phogat (48kg) settled for the silver medal in the Under-23 Senior World Wrestling Championship at Poland.

The 23-year-old, who had won the gold medal at the Commonwealth

Wrestling

Championship last year, lost against Turkish wrestler

Demirhan

in the gold medal bout to settle for a silver.

In the quarter-final,

Ritu

defeated Bulgarian Wrestler Selishka 4-2 points before defeating Chinese Wrestler

Jiang Zhu

4-3 points in the semi-final.

Ritu had won the National championship in Indore this month. She also won a bronze medal at the Asian Championships in May this year.