Paris Olympics: Naveen Congratulates Vinesh Phogat for Entering into Wrestling Semifinals

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Bhubaneswar: BJD President Naveen Patnaik has congratulated Vinesh Phogat for entering into semifinals of women’s freestyle 50kg category at the Paris Olympics 2024.

Phogat advanced to the maiden semifinals of the women’s freestyle 50kg match after beating Ukraine’s Oksana Vasylivna Livach 7-5 in her second bout of the day at the Paris Olympics 2024 on Tuesday.

In a ‘X’ post, Naveen wrote, “Congratulate Vinesh Phogat on defeating world No-1 and defending champion Yui Susaki of Japan and Ukraine’s Oksana Livach to enter into semifinals of women’s freestyle 50kg category in #ParisOlympics2024. May she continue her winning momentum and bring glory for the country.

Vinesh, who started the day by stunning Japan’s four-time World Champion and Tokyo Olympics gold medallist Yui Susaki, took an initial lead of 2-0 in the first period of the match against Oksana, who won her first bout 10-0 on technical superiority.

The second period was a bit challenging for Vinesh as Oksana fought back and took a 2-pointer after the Indian grappler had stretched her lead to 4-0 with two minutes and two seconds remaining in the match.

The 29-year-old Vinesh recovered quickly to counter and got one more point to her name to take the lead 5-2. In the last few seconds of the bout, the Ukrainian attacked fiercely but Vinesh managed to hold on to her defence and counter-attacked to get a 2-pointer via technical superiority. With 10 seconds left in the match, the Ukrainian grappler came up with a big move but Vinesh defended well and restricted her to one point. And that was enough for Vinesh to win the match 7-5.

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