{"id":38963,"date":"2024-08-06T17:41:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T17:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/06\/vinesh-phogat-becomes-1st-indian-women-wrestler-to-reach-final-in-olympics-pragativadi-odisha-news-breaking-news-odisha-latest-odisha-news-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T17:42:00","slug":"vinesh-phogat-becomes-1st-indian-women-wrestler-to-reach-final-in-olympics-pragativadi-odisha-news-breaking-news-odisha-latest-odisha-news-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/06\/vinesh-phogat-becomes-1st-indian-women-wrestler-to-reach-final-in-olympics-pragativadi-odisha-news-breaking-news-odisha-latest-odisha-news-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinesh Phogat Becomes 1st Indian Women Wrestler To Reach Final In Olympics | Pragativadi | Odisha News, Breaking News Odisha, Latest Odisha News &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Vinesh Phogat made history by becoming the first Indian woman wrestler to reach an Olympic final, defeating Yusneylis Guzman Lopez of Cuba 5-0 in the women\u2019s freestyle 50kg semi-final. Before today, her opponent had an international record of 82-0. Now it\u2019s 82-1.<\/p>\n<p>With today\u2019s semifinal victory at the Paris 2024 Olympics, Phogat has ensured at least a silver medal but will be vying for gold in the final.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Vinesh Phogat \ud83d\udc49 the 1st \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 female wrestler to reach the final at the Olympics! \ud83e\udd3c\u200d\u2640\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Take a bow! \ud83d\udca5<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Paris2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Paris2024<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vExNIWgWps\">pic.twitter.com\/vExNIWgWps<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Olympic Khel (@OlympicKhel) <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OlympicKhel\/status\/1820875225330024918?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 6, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She will take on either Otgonjargal Dolgorjav or Sarah Ann Hildebrandt in the final on the 7th of August.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Phogat overcame Ukraine\u2019s Oksana Livach in the quarterfinals and delivered the biggest upset of the games by defeating Japan\u2019s four-time world champion and current gold medalist Yui Susaki on points to advance to the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being down 0-2 due to penalty points for passivity, the Indian wrestler staged an impressive comeback in the final five seconds, securing three points to topple the top seed with a 3-2 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Vinesh had not secured a medal in her two Olympic participations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Vinesh Phogat made history by becoming the first Indian woman wrestler to reach an Olympic final, defeating Yusneylis Guzman Lopez of Cuba 5-0 in the women\u2019s freestyle 50kg semi-final. Before today, her opponent had an international record of 82-0. Now it\u2019s 82-1. With today\u2019s semifinal victory at the Paris 2024 Olympics, Phogat has ensured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Vinesh-Phogat.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38965,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38963\/revisions\/38965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}