{"id":97150,"date":"2022-08-07T13:41:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T13:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=97150"},"modified":"2022-08-07T13:41:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T13:41:54","slug":"sri-lanka-win-bronze-in-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/sri-lanka-win-bronze-in-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka win bronze in Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"inner-h\">\n<h1 class=\"innerheader\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">Sri Lanka win bronze in Wrestling<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97151\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Nethmi-Ahinsa-Fernando.jpg\" alt=\"Nethmi Ahinsa Fernando\" width=\"400\" height=\"232\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #800080;\">Source:<\/span><\/strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/birmingham_2022_cwg\/Sri-Lanka-win-bronze-in-Wrestling\/488-242490\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dailymirror<\/a><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Nethmi Ahinsa Fernando became Sri Lanka&#8217;s youngest ever Commonwealth Games medallist and the first medallist in Wrestling when she beat Australia&#8217;s Irene Symeonidis in the Bronze medal match in the Women&#8217;s Freestyle 57kg category at the Birmingham 2022 games on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The 18-year-old out-wrestled her vastly more experienced Australian opponent, winning 10-00 on technical superiority in a bout that lasted 1 minute and 51 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Fernando received a walkover in her Quarter-Final match against Emilienne Essombe Tiako of Cameroon, before losing 10-00 to Anshu Malik in the semi-final and then beating Symeonidis in the Bronze medal match.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">She was a part of the Sri Lankan wrestling contingent that trained in Hungary recently in preparation for the games.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka win bronze in Wrestling Source:Dailymirror Nethmi Ahinsa Fernando became Sri Lanka&#8217;s youngest ever Commonwealth Games medallist and the first medallist in Wrestling when she beat Australia&#8217;s Irene Symeonidis in the Bronze medal match in the Women&#8217;s Freestyle 57kg category at the Birmingham 2022 games on Friday. 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