Indian wrestler Priya Malik won a gold medal at the World Cadet Wrestling
Championship currently being held in Budapest, Hungary.

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.

Priya grabbed the 73kg
title with a 5-0 win over Belarus’ Kseniya Patapovich.  In
2020, Malik had won gold at the National School Games. Further, she had won
gold at the National Cadets Wrestling Championship last year.

It is Malik’s dream to represent India in the Olympics someday.

Malik’s medal adds to the glory of Indian women in sports this week with woman weightlifter Mirabai
Chanu winning a silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday.

Malik’s win has social media flooded with happy reactions and congratulatory messages with many calling this a “proud moment”.

On Thursday Aman Gulia (48kg) and Sagar Jaglan (80kg) took titles in the men’s freestyle competition to propel India to the Team championship title for the first time in history.

Another Indian, Varsha won the bronze medal on Thursday in the 65kg category with a victory by fall against Turkey’s Duygu Gen.

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 thr 46kg catergory 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.