Highlights of Asian Wrestling Championships 2020

Sakshi Malik twice lost to Japan's Naomi Ruike — in the opening round and the final — to win her second silver at this event

Vinesh Phogat fell out of the gold medal race but made a strong comeback to win the bronze medal play-off against Vietnam's Thi Ly Kieu

Anshu Malik and Gursharanpreet Kaur also won bronze medals each to add to India's tally

The Rio Olympic bronze medallist Sakshi, who has been struggling of late, lost her opening round 1-2 to Naomi and could not score a point in final, which she lost 0-2.

Sakshi has been losing in closing stages of late but this time she managed to hold on to her narrow lead, surviving anxious last two seconds.

All eyes were on



Vinesh, who yet again fell to Muakida to go out of the gold medal race but made a strong comeback to win then the bronze medal play-off against Vietnam's Thi Ly Kieu, winning by technical superiority in the first period itself.

Vinesh has won a medal at every Asian Championship since 2013.

Anshu opened up her campaign against Kyrgyzstan's Nuraida Anarkulova, winning by technical superiority but was outplayed by reigning world champion from Japan Riskao Kawai.

She then beat Sevara Eshmuratova from Uzbekistan to win her first medal at senior level.

In the non-Olympic 72kg, Gursharanpreet Kaur defeated Mongloia's Tsevegmed Enkhbayar in the third place play-off to win her second medal at this championship.