The African Champion, who had automatically qualified for the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics, is now the second female wrestler to win bronze for Nigeria after Ifeoma Iheanacho won bronze medals in 2009 and 2010 in the 67kg. Enroute to her bronze medal feat, Adekuroye , beat three wrestlers ranked among the top ten in the world. She despatched her opponent Malysheva, from Russia 4-3, won 13-3 against Ukraine’ Horishna , lost 2-4 against World Silver medalist,Sofia Mattson from Sweden and defeated her Belarus opponent Shushko by 10-0. Also in the 53kg, Saori Yoshidafrom Japan , scored with a double-leg and a single-leg in the second period of her bout with Sweden’s Sofia Mattsson and held on for a 2-1 victory and her 13th world championship crown. Meanwhile, the three top ranked women turned away all their challengers to rule on the first day of the women’s event on Day three of the senior Wrestling World Championship. The only No.2 wrestler to win at The Orleans Arena was Zhan Belenyuk of Ukraine, who won the gold medal at 85kg and helped lift Ukraine to third place in the final Greco-Roman standings. Belenyuk, a bronze medal winner one year ago, opened his bout with Rustam Assakalov of Uzbekistan, with a textbook arm throw for four points and added a quick gut wrench for a 6-0 lead, nursing it for his first world title. Defending champion Eri Tosaka from Japan scored a late takedown off a single leg attack after surrendering two “activity clock” points to European Games champion Maria Stadnyk of Azerbaijan. The takedown and a failed challenge from the Azerbaijan corner made the final tally 3-2 for Tosaka, who won her third straight world crown. In one bronze medal bout, Jessica Blaszka of Netherland , scored a force-out with seconds remaining match-up with LI Hui of China) at 48kg for a 5-5 win on last-point criteria. The bronze was the first medal for the Netherlands at a wrestling world championships since Lynie Van Der Holster from Netherland took a silver at 47kg in 1987.
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