Paris Olympics 2024: Anshu Malik loses in pre-quarters of wrestling, Jyoti Yaraj fails to reach hurdles semi-finals
Paris Olympics 2024: Indian sprinter Jyoti Yaraj finished fourth in heat 1 with a timing of 13.17 seconds in the women's 100m hurdles repechage round at the Stade de France on Thursday.
Indian wrestler Anshu Malik lost 2-7 to Helen Louise Maroulis of the USA in the women's 57kg freestyle round of 16 wrestling match at the Paris Olympics. The Indian wrestler had also lost to Maroulis in the World Championship final three years ago. She also suffered an early defeat at the Tokyo Olympics 2020.
In 53kg, Rio 2016 champion Maroulis may face Poland's Anhelina Lisak in the quarter-finals, followed by top seed Tsugumi Sakurai of Japan in the semi-finals. Anshu will have to beat Maroulis from both of them to make it to the repechage round.
Meanwhile, Indian runner winner Jyoti Yaraji finished fourth in Heat 1 with a timing of 13.17 seconds in the women's 100m hurdles repechage round at Stade de France on Thursday. Due to being in fourth place, she failed to make it to the semi-finals of the competition at the Paris Olympics. Only the top two athletes from each heat go to the round.
Yaraji was the first female athlete to represent India in the 100m hurdles at the Olympics. She made it to today's repechage event with a timing of 13.16 seconds in Round 1.
