Mansi Ahlawat won bronze in World Championship, other Indians disappointed

Mansi Ahlawat extended India's medal haul at the World Championships by winning a bronze medal, but the men's freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestlers will return empty handed. Competing in the women's 59kg, Mansi, who trains at the Sir Chhotu Ram Akhara under coach Mandeep, defeated Canada's Lawrence Beauregard 5-0 in the bronze medal bout. She had lost 1-4 to Mongolia's Sukhi Tserenchimed in the semi-finals after winning three consecutive matches on Wednesday.

Manisha Bhanwala (65kg) also came close to a podium finish but lost the bronze play-off to Japan's Miwa Morikawa 2-8.

Manisha made a comeback into the competition by winning her repechage round against Mongolia's Enkhjin Tuvshinjargal 7-2.

Kirti (55 kg) and Bipasha (72 kg) could not reach the medal round.

In men's freestyle, Sandeep Mann (92 kg) made it to the repechage round but lost to Slovakia's Batyrbek Sakuklov due to technical superiority.

Udit (61 kg), Manish Goswami (70 kg) and Parvinder Singh (79 kg) could not reach the medal round.

India's Greco-Roman wrestlers struggled as usual as Sanjeev (55kg), Chetan (63kg), Ankit Gulia (72kg) and Rohit Dahiya (82kg) fell early in the competition.