TASHKENT, Uzbekistan
Turkish female wrestler Elif Jale Yesilirmak won a bronze medal in the World Wrestling Championships 58 kilograms category for the first time in history on Thursday.
Twenty-eight-year-old Yesilirmak won the bronze medal defeating her Ecuadorian opponent, Lisset Antes, 8-2 in the World Wresting Championships which was held in the Uzbek capital city Tashkent.
Yesilirmak managed to defeat the Kazakh athlete Aizhan Ismagulova 10-0 in the first round Thursday morning. In the second round, she toppled Hungarian Emese Barka 4-0 to qualify for the quarter finals. In the quarter final round, she lost to Russia's Valeria Koblova 9-0 and had the right to play a 'repechage game' after Koblova advanced to the final.
In the 'repechage' stage Yesilirmak defeated her Mongolian opponent Munkhtuya Tungalag 8-0 and succeeded in gaining the right to compete for the bronze medal.
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