Sakshi Malik at Rio Olympics 2016: All you need to know about India’s first woman wrestler to win Olympic medal - Sakshi Malik's journey to the top has been fraught with stuggles, where she and her family and coach had to deal with various social stereotypes and taboos.

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Sub : Sakshi Malik at Rio Olympics 2016: All you need to know about India’s first woman wrestler to win Olympic medal

Ref : Sakshi Malik's journey to the top has been fraught with stuggles, where she and her family and coach had to deal with various social stereotypes and taboos.

 Sakshi Malik
Wrestler
Sakshi Malik is an Indian freestyle wrestler. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she won the bronze medal in the 58 kg category, becoming the first Indian female wrestler to win a medal at the Olympics.
Born: 03 Sep 1992 (age 23) · Haryana, India
Height: 5' 4"
Parents: Sudesh Malik (Mother) · Sukhbir Malik (Father)

Rio de Janeiro, August 18: Thursday moring saw the end of India’s excruciatingly long wait for a medal, after the spirited  23-year-old wrestler Sakshi Malik turned tales on her opponent during the last moments of the bout, to clinch the bronze medal for the country in the Women’s Freestyle 58kg category. Malik defeated Aisuluu Tynybekova of Kyrgyzstan with a 8-5 score in the bronze medal bout at the Carioca Arena 2 here on Wednesday. Sakshi is just the fourth female Indian athlete to climb on the hallowed sports podium. She is, however, the first woman wrestler from India to win a medal at the biggest sporting event of the world.

Needless to say, Sakshi Malik’s journey to the top has been fraught with stuggles, where she and her family and coach had to deal with various social stereotypes and taboos. Sakshi hails from Rohtak in the state of Haryana, which is known for its skewed sex ratio. Sakshi’s parents Sudesh and Sukhbir were always supportive of her when she told them about her unusual career choice. Malik started training as a wrestler at the age of 12-years, under the guidance of Ishwar Dahiya at a local akhara in the Chotu Ram stadium. Malik groomed herself by fighting a lot of boys, mostly because the sport is considered unsuitable for girls. Dahiya was criticised when he took Sakshi under his care and started training her.

Undeterred by anything that anyone else had to say, Dahiya cotinued to train Sakshi Malik and under his guidance, she tasted early victory at the age of 18 years when won a Bronze at the 2010 Junior World Championships in the 59-kg category in 2010. She gained International attention when she won a Gold at the Dave Schultz International Wrestling Tournament (60-kg) in 2014. She followed it up by officially launching her International professional wrestling career, by winning a Silver medal in the Common Wealth Games in 2014 in Glasgow. She won a bronze at the Senior Asian Wrestling Championships in Doha and then  at the Spanish Grand Prix

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Sub : Sakshi Malik clinches bronze medal in women’s wrestling 58kg category, opens India’s account at Rio 2016 Olympics

Ref : Sakshi Malik of India beats Aisuluu Tynybekova of Kyrgyzstan 8-5 in the women's wrestling 58kg bronze medal match.
THE INDIAN EXPRESS

Sakshi Malik won both Repechage bouts to seal the bronze medal. (Source: Reuters)
India’s Sakshi Malik won a bronze medal in the wrestling 58kg category after the Indian beat Aisuluu Tynybekova 8-5 in the bronze medal bout. In a thrilling contest, Sakshi fought back from 0-5 down to seal the bout 8-5 in her favour. With seconds left on the clock, she produced a three-point move to seal the bout and India’s first medal at Rio 2016 Olympics.

It wasn’t an ideal start for the 23-year-old as she conceded a five-point lead early in the contest, and like in three out of the four bouts earlier in the day, she was back from behind to produce the moves when they mattered, and seal the win.

Tynybekova started on a positive note as her leg-grab put her in the lead. She repeated the move again and sat in a comfortable position. Malik opened the scoring in the second period of the bout when she pushed her opponent down and out of the mat. She hit back with a similar move to reduce the deficit to just one point.

With scores locked at 5-5, and only seconds to go, Malik managed to steal three points and erupted in joy after a review from the Tynybekova corner didn’t make any difference to the scoring.
Earlier, Malik reached the Repechage rounds of the women’s freestyle 58kg event and made most of the second life as she outplayed Mongolian wrestler Orkhon in the Rd 2 contest 12-3 to advance to the bronze-medal match.

It was a convincing performance by the Indian as she took the early lead and kept the Mongolian under pressure with smart moves. There was a brief moment early in the first period where Sakshi lost balance and allowed her opponent to make most of it, but apart from that she was in complete control of proceedings.

Malik got another chance at a medal after her quarterfinal opponent Valeria Koblova reached the gold medal match.

In the quarterfinal, Malik was easily trumped by the superior and much quicker Koblova to lose 9-2. And crash out of contention for a gold or a silver medal.

In her Round of 16 match, Sakshi beat Moldova’s Mariana Cherdivara on the back of a bigger point margin in a single move after both were locked at 5-5. And in the opener, Sakshi produced a scintillating turnaround from 0-4 down to win 5-4 with her final two points coming in the closing stages of the contest.

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Sub : Rio Olympics: Wrestler Sakshi Malik clinches bronze to open India's medal account

Ref : The 23-year-old from Rohtak overturned a 0-5 deficit in a hectic second round to win 8-5.
ZEE NEWS

Rio de Janeiro: Gritty woman wrestler Sakshi Malik ended India's painful wait for a medal at the Rio Olympic Games by clinching the bronze in the 58kg category, pulling off a sensational 8-5 victory over Aisuluu Tynybekova in the Play-off bout, here.

The 23-year-old from Rohtak became only the fourth woman athlete from India to win an Olympic medal as she earned the dramatic win after falling behind 0-5 in the do-or-die bout on day 12.
Weightlifter Karnam Malleshwari (2000, Sydney), boxer MC Mary Kom (2012, London) and shuttler Saina Nehwal (2012, London) were the only other women players from India to have won a medal in Olympics.

Like in three of the four other bouts earlier in the day, Sakshi won the crucial bout after coming from behind. She, in fact, had lost 2-9 in the quarter-finals to Russia's Valeriia Koblova in the fifth bout of the day before getting a second chance in repechage when her conqueror reached the final.
Sakshi's victory brought cheers to the Indian contingent that had endured agonising 11 days without a medal.

Sakshi turned the tables on the Kyrgyzstan wrestler in the dying seconds of the bout as Tynybekova was in complete command in most part of the clash.

Tynybekova grabbed Sakshi's leg and quickly earned two points before adding one more for the Indian's passivity.

She repeated her move and successfully bagged two more points to lead 5-0 at the break.

Sakshi could open the scoring only in the second period and got two points after throwing her rival down and out of the mat. She then managed to earn two points again with a similar move to bring down the margin to 4-5.

Thereafter, it was no looking back for the Indian girl and she took the opponent down to level the scores 5-5. But she did not stop there and gained three more points by pinning down the Kyrgyzstan wrestler in the dying moments of the match.

She had earlier stormed into the bronze medal play-off round with a dominating performance in her repechage round, where she thrashed Purevdorjiin Orkhon of Mongolia 12-3. Both the wrestlers matched each other in the first period and the scores were 2-2 at the break.

But Sakshi gave a more aggressive account of herself in the second period, pinning down her opponent from time to time, besides flipping her over for crucial points.

Starting with a double-leg take down to earn two points, she added two more crucial points to her kitty to lead 6-3 with a minute left.

In the last one minute, she kept attacking and gained four more points. In fact, Sakshi earned as many as 10 points compared to just one by the Mongolian in the second period to seal off the issue in style.
As Sakshi had reached the quarterfinals, she needed to fight only one repechage round as compared to the other two opponents of the Russian girl, whom she had beaten in the earlier two rounds ? pre-quarters and qualification.

Koblova had beaten Luisa Niemesch of Germany in the qualification round before defeating Mongolia?s Orkhon in the pre-quarterfinals.

Therefore, in the first repechage round, these two grapplers from Germany and Mongolia faced each other. And the winner of that bout (Mongolian girl) then took on Sakshi in repechage round 2 for a place in the bronze medal play-off.

Sakshi had to get the better of the Mongolian grappler in the repechage round 2 and she did just that to advance to the bronze medal play off.

In the bronze play-off too Sakshi's winning move that got her two points initially was challenged by her Kyrgyztan rival and it was reviewed and she was awarded an extra point by the judges much to her rival's chagrin.

The other bronze was won by Marwa Amri of Tunisia.

Earlier in the day, Sakshi went down in the quarterfinals losing 2-9 to Koblova.

Having conceded one point in the first period of her quarterfinal fight because of passivity, Sakshi did well to earn two points in the second period after taking-down the Russian girl.

But Koblova, with enormous strength, hit back almost immediately to pocket four points and then gained another two to open up a 7-2 lead.

The Russian then closed the door on Sakshi by bagging another two points to win the bout and make the semifinals. In the first two rounds, Sakshi came back from behind to register impressive wins.
Making a strong comeback from a 0-4 down, Sakshi defeated Sweden?s Malin Johanna Mattsson 5-4 in the qualification round She was down 0-4 after the first period but quickly made amends in the second period.

Sakshi managed to pull two points back before pushing her rival out of the mat to grab another point.
With just 10 seconds remaining, Sakshi desperately needed one more point to post a win and she held her nerves as she took down the Swedish girl in those dying moments to post a narrow victory.
In the pre-quarters, she once again eked out a narrow 5-5 win over Mariana Cherdivara Esanu of Republic of Moldova In the opening period of the pre-quarterfinal bout, Sakshi got 30 seconds to earn points but she failed and that gave Cherdivara a point.

The girl from Moldova then put Sakshi down on the mat to gain another two points and lead 3-0 at the break.

In the second period, the Indian failed to take advantage of the 30 seconds she got and handed Cherdivara another point. Sakshi then came back strongly to post a double take down, which earned her four crucial points at one go and helped her surge ahead to a 5-3 lead.

Although Cherdivara, with her own take-down, gained two points to make the scores level at 5-5 with just 19 seconds left on the clock, the Indian was declared winner on bigger points gain.

My view

 1. Bharathiya women putting their best efforts at Rio, than men;
 2. Respect Bharathiya Nari;
 3. Love them as they are our mothers;
 4. After  best efforts of Gymnast #Dipa  and  wresler ‪#‎SakshiMalik‬;
5. Sindhu, fast moving to her goal, wish her best of LUCK!
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 1. The other women in wrestling and few boxers done well!
 2. Congratulations!!