Vinesh Phogat enters semifinals of the women’s 50kg freestyle wrestling at Paris

Vinesh Phogat stuns Yui Susaki at Paris Olympics, advances to semifinals with win over Oksana Livach.

Vinesh Phogat entered her maiden Olympic semifinals in the 50kg category, beating Ukraine’s Oksana Livach in the last-eight stage in Paris on August 6.

The 29-year-old Vinesh defeated Livach 7-5 in a hard-fought bout to get closer to an elusive Olympic medal in her third attempt.

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Vinesh Phogat will be playing her semifinal bout at 10.15 pm. (IST).

Earlier in the day, Vinesh Phogat pulled off the biggest upset at the Paris Olympics by outwitting hitherto invincible Yui Susaki, executing a perfectly-planned strategy to come out a surprise winner in the women’s 50kg opening round.

The Tokyo Games gold medallist and four-time World Champion Susaki had not lost any of her 94 bouts in her international career but the Japanese top seed didn’t know what was going to hit her in her opener which she lost 2-3.

With just 18 seconds left in the bout, both Vinesh and Susaki began to look for that one winning move.