Haryana's Sakshi Malik wins Bronze medal in Rio Olympic 2016

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Rio de Janeiro: After winning the Bronze medal, Sakshi said with tears of joy in her eyes, "Meri barah saal ki tapasya rang layi. Geeta didi, my senior had qualified for the first time in London.’’
"I never thought I would become the first woman wrestler from India to bag an Olympic medal in wrestling. I hope the remaining wrestlers will also do well," Sakshi said. The 23-year-old from Haryana, a silver medallist at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and bronze winner at the 2014 Incheon Asian Games, achieved a dramatic come-from-behind 8-5 win over Kyrgysztan ' s Aisuluu Tynybekova in the bronze medal play-off here. Sakshi achieved the dramatic win after falling behind 0-5 following the first period in the do-or-die bout. The Indian 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. On her defensive approach that saw her trailing 0-5, Sakshi said: "I never gave up till last, I knew I would win if I lasted till six minutes. In last round, I had to give my maximum, I had the self belief." Sakshi 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.
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