Indian wrestler Reetika Hooda has clinched a silver medal in the women’s freestyle 76 kg division at the 2025 Senior Asian Wrestling Championship in Amman, Jordan.
In the quarter-finals, she began her campaign with a dominant 10-0 victory over South Korea’s Seoyeon Jeong.
She defeated Japan’s strong contender, Nodoka Yamamoto, by fall in the semifinal.
However, in a closely contested gold medal bout, she narrowly lost 6-7 to Kyrgyzstan’s Aiperi Medet Kyzy, settling for silver.
The U-23 world champion clinched the bronze medal at the 2023 edition of the Asian Championships.
India’s first bronze medal of the day came from Muskan (59kg). She started with a commanding 10-0 win against Arian G. Carpio of the Philippines but faced a tough 12-2 loss against Japan’s Sakura Onishi. However, she made a strong comeback in the bronze medal match, defeating Mongolia’s Altjin Togtokh 4-0.
The second bronze medal was secured by Mansi Lather (68kg). She dominated Chinese Taipei’s Sheng F. Cai 10-0 in her opening bout.
Her next match was against a Japanese wrestler, but due to an injury, she advanced to the semifinal, where she lost 1-10 to China’s Zelu Li.
Undeterred, she fought back in the bronze medal match, defeating Kazakhstan’s Irina Kazyulina 12-2.
Wrestler Nitesh added a second medal to India’s account in the ongoing Asian Wrestling Championships 2025 by scripting a bronze medal triumph in the Greco-Roman 97kg weight division in Amman, Jordan.
The 22-year-old grappler ousted Kazakhstan’s Ilyas Guchigov 9-0 via technical superiority (VSU) in his opening match.
He stormed into the semi-finals with high spirits but suffered a defeat with the same scoreline against the reigning Olympic champion, Mohammad Hadi Saravi of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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So far, India has won a total of five medals (one silver and four bronze) in the championship. Two of these bronze medals came in the Greco-Roman format, with Sunil Kumar and Nitesh finishing third in the men’s 87kg and men’s 97kg weight divisions, respectively.
