National Games 2022: Wrestler Divya Kakran, representing UP, wins gold in different weight category | More sports News

GANDHINAGAR: Wrestler Divya Kakran won the gold medal at National Games in the women’s 76kg freestyle category on Friday. And, for once, she did not launch a tirade against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal over his government’s refusal to honor her with a cash reward. Reason: Birmingham CWG bronze medalist at
the women’s 68 kg category represented Uttar Pradesh as her home country at the Games.
However, Kakran has repeatedly claimed that she is into the sport of struggle for 22 years in the Gokulpuri area of ​​Delhi in the Eastern District and represented the state from 2011 to 2017.
This time, the double Asian Championships gold medalist would be happy to receive a check of Rs 6 lakh from the UP government for her first place on the podium at the Games. It is the policy of the UP government to reward gold, silver and bronze medal winners with a cash prize of Rs 6 lakh, Rs 4 lakh and Rs 2 lakh, respectively.

At the Games, on the opening day of the wrestling competitions here, Divya was happy to talk about her performance and the change of her weight class from the original 68kg to the newly adopted 76kg. In the final, she beat Rani of Himachal Pradesh “by fall”.
“This is my first time competing in the 76kg class and in the future I will be competing in this weight class. After CWG Birmingham I had put on weight and it was hard to reduce “The training was not good after the break. I thought that rather than reducing the weight, the ideal would be to adapt to 76kg. So, I will continue to compete in this weight category”, has said Kakran, who won the bronze medal at the Kerala National Games in 2015.