The 19-year-old Indian wrestler, Sonam Malik is out ofthe Tokyo Olympics, she was playing in the women’s 62 kg category, and on Tuesdayshe had her quarterfinals against Mongolia’s Bolortuya Khurelkhuu which shelost. On her defeat, she is out of the repechage round in Olympics.
She leads the bout at the beginning of the match with thescore of 2-0 after two push-outs, but just before 35 seconds the Asian silver medallistKhurelkhuu did a take-down move and leveled up the score to 2-2, but thejudges declared the latter the winner because of the move she made at the end.
Sonam took the lead and didn’t let the competitor anyscore in the major part of the match, but just at the end the Mongolian wasable to get hold of the young Indian and scored the 2 pointers.
She was able to get qualified for the Olympics by makingfinals in April at the Asian Qualifier while the other is an experienced playerand knew when to get hold of things. The chance of Malik to be a part of the repechageround is no more as Khurelkhuu lost the quarter-final bout.