NEW DELHI: World under-23 champion Reetika Hooda relinquished a substantial advantage in the final against Kyrgyzstan’s Aiperi Medet Kyzy to settle for a silver medal in the Asian wrestling championships in Amman, Jordan.
Reetika looked poised for a convincing victory leading 6-2 in her women’s freestyle 76kg championship match against Aiperi, but yielded four points in the final 10 seconds and finished second. The Kyrgyz opponent had defeated the Indian in the quarterfinals of the Paris Olympics last year.
