Commonwealth Video games 2022: India’s Tulika Maan confident her nation their 3rd medal in judo within the ongoing version of the match in Birmingham.
Tulika Maan of India. Courtesy: Twitter
HIGHLIGHTSTulika Maan gained the fit by way of one ipponTulika Maan took 1 minute and 53 seconds to win the matchEarlier, Deepak Deswal misplaced his repechage fit
India’s Tulika Maan, on Wednesday, August 3, certified for the gold medal fit of the ladies’s 78 kg semi-final. She defeated New Zealand’s Sydnee Andrews by way of one ippon. Andrews controlled to churn out a waza-ari to start out the fit, however Maan used to be equivalent to the duty.
The fit took 1 minute and 53 seconds to recover from. Maan, within the period in-between, is now confident of no less than a silver medal. In the past, Shushila Devi and Vijay Kumar Yadav gained medals of their respective classes in Judo.
Devi gained the silver medal within the 48kg last after shedding to South Africa’s Michaela Whitebooi. Yadav, alternatively, gained the bronze medal within the males’s 60 kg match. He defeated Cyprus’s Petros C by way of one ippon in 58 mins. He claimed a waza-ari after simply 5 seconds and went directly to safe victory.
On the other hand, Maan has the golden alternative to turn out to be the primary Indian judoka to win the gold medal within the ongoing Commonwealth Video games 2022.
Maan went into her semi-final fit after defeating Mauritius’s Tracy Durhone and he or she carried at the shape within the semis as neatly.
Previous, India’s Deepak Deswal misplaced his repechage fit in opposition to Fiji’s Tevita Takayawa. The judoka from Fiji gained by way of an ippon and the fit lasted just one minute and eight seconds. Deswal’s opponent garnered two waza-ari to come back up trumps.
Deepak went into the repechage after shedding to England’s Harry Lovell-Hewitt. He used to be simplest in a position to win the Males’s 100 kg Removing Spherical of 16 fit in opposition to Cameron’s Eric Jean Sebastien Omgba Fouda.
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