Wrestler Bipasha settles for silver; Simran, Sito clinch bronze medals

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Outclassed in the final, Bipasha (76kg) had to be content with a silver medal but a tenacious Sanju Devi kept her cool and relied on her stamina to secure a place in 62kg title clash at the Junior Wrestling World Championship here on Thursday.

Simran (50kg) and Sito (55kg) won bronze medals to add to India's tally but Arju forfeited her 68kg bronze play-off due to injury. Bhateri also made her way into the 65kg final while Saneh will fight for bronze after losing her 62kg semi-final.

Bipasha lost her final by technical superiority to America's Kylie Renee Welker, who executed fitley move to finish the bout quickly. Sanju emerged star of the day for India. In the semi-final too she was down 0-5 but relied on her supreme stamina to win 8-5 against Azerbaijan's Birgul Soltanova, who lost a bit of steam towards the end and blew away her lead. She will fight for gold against Russia's Alina Kasabieva.

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