Olympics 2024 Vinesh Phogat: There seemed to be a medal drought for India in the Olympics 2024. But Vinesh Phogat and Neeraj Chopra have created a stir by raising hopes of medals across the seven seas.
Vinesh Phogat will fight in the final with USA’s Sarah Hildebrandt in 50 KG wrestling. The road to the medal will not be easy for Vinesh. There will be a tough competition in the match, as Hildebrandt is also included in the list of world champions.
Who is Sarah Hildebrandt?
Vinesh Phogat is set to compete in the final of the women’s 50 kg competition at the Paris 2024 Olympic Wrestling Competition on Thursday morning. The match will be held on Wednesday night at 12.50 AM Indian time.
Sixth seed Sarah Hildebrandt performed brilliantly in her first match and defeated Ibtissem Doudou of Algeria. In the quarter-finals, Sarah defeated China’s Feng Ziqi 7-4.
After this, she defeated Mongolia’s Dolgorjavin Otgonjargal, who is a three-time World Championship medalist, 5-0. After this, she has entered the final. Vinesh Phogat’s brilliant performance Vinesh Phogat performed incredibly in the competition.
She made it to the final by scoring a hat-trick of wins. She surprised everyone by defeating world champion Japan’s Tokyo 2020 champion Yui Susaki in the first match. She turned the tables in the last 4 seconds and Susaki lost the match.
Vinesh defeated former European champion Oxana Livach of Ukraine in the quarter-finals and American Games champion Yusnelis Guzman of Cuba in the semi-finals.
Hildebrandt has missed the medal twice Vinesh Phogat is a three-time Commonwealth Games gold medalist. She won the gold medal at the 2018 Asian Games, but was ruled out of the 2023 Asian Games due to injury.
She has also won the bronze medal twice but both her medals came in the women’s 53 kg category. However, Vinesh Phogat missed out on medals at the Olympics, which she is now ready to make up for. She is the first female wrestler to reach the final in women’s wrestling.
