Indian wrestler Priya Malik has won a gold medal today but not at the Olympics, as suggested by some social media users. She aced the 2021 World Cadet Wrestling Championships being held in Budapest, Hungary. The Haryana wrestler is not participating in the 2020 Olympics being held in Tokyo.

Ever since her gold announcement, social media users have been searching if Priya Malik won this gold at the Olympics tournament, as several Twitter posts suggested. The Haryana athlete won the gold at the World Wrestling Championship and not at the Olympics.

Some of the users went on to add her medal to the overall India tally at Olympics.

The Haryana athlete bagged the title in the 73 kg category at the 2021 World Cadet Wrestling Championships after defeating Belarus’s Kseniya Patapovich by 5-0.

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Priya Malik sure has dreams to make it big at the Olympics, and she is moving in that direction but the wrestler, in her teens, is yet to participate in the summer games.

Priya Malik’s World Wrestling Championship win has added to India’s celebration. The country is now celebrating two medals – a silver by weightlifter Mirabai Chanu at Tokyo Olympics 2

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Malik hails from Jind in Haryana and is a student of Choudhary Bharat Singh Memorial School. Malik’s father Jayabhagwan Nidani is an Indian army veteran. 

In 2019, Priya Malik won gold at Khelo India in Pune and clinched the yellow medal the same year at the 17th School Games that were held in Delhi.

In 2020, Priya Malik also won a gold at Patna National Cadet Championship. The same year, she bagged another gold medal in a national-level school competition.

The Cadet World Championship is a yearly event where the best Greco-Roman, Freestyle, and Women wrestlers in the world aged 16 and 17 years old compete.

This time, the female wrestlers who participated from India were Priya Malik, Tannu, Varsha, and Komal.

While Tannu won gold in the 43kg category, Komal won in the 46kg category and Priya won in the 73kg category.

The Cadet World Championship was organised by the United World Wrestling (UWW), which is the international governing body for the sport of amateur wrestling. It also oversees wrestling at the Olympics.