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Indian wrestler Nisha Dahiya missed out on a World Cup medal when she lost to former world champion Linda Morais of Canada in the women’s 68kg bronze play-off here on Thursday. 24-year-old Nisha, who won bronze in last year’s U-23 World Championships in 65kg, lost to Morais, who took the bronze in a win by fall (VFA) verdict. Nisha made headlines last year when she was mistaken for a wrestler of the same name who was murdered in Sonipat. Previously, she had advanced to the semi-finals with victories over Danute Domikaityte (victory victory; 11-0) of Lithuania, Adela Hanzlikcova (13-8) of Czech Republic and Sofiya Georgieva (victory of technical superiority; 11-0) of Bulgaria .
But in the semifinals, she lost 4-5 to Ami Ishii from Japan in a close match.
Nisha’s bronze play-off opponent Morais had made it through the repechage.
Vinesh Phogat had won India’s first medal in these championships on Wednesday with a bronze in women’s 53kg.
In the men’s 70 kg freestyle on Thursday, Naveen Malik lost to Taishi Narikuni of Japan 1-6 in 70 kg, even though his opponent lacked technical superiority.
Deepak defeated Dan Or Tsesarsky of Israel 10-0 in a victory by technical superiority, but lost to Bekzod Abdurkhmonov of Uzbekistan 2-13 in his next fight at 79kg.
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Weighing in at 86kg, Sanjeet Kundu was ahead for most of his opening match against Georgia’s Tarzan Maisuradze, but had to concede a takedown with 34 seconds left to suffer a 4-4 loss.
In 125kg, Dinesh started with a qualifying round 11-4 win over Catriel Pehuen Muriel of Argentina but was no match for Olympic silver medalist Geno Petriashvili of Georgia.
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