Priya Malik wins gold for India at Wrestling Championship, fans confuse it for Olympic medal

While Mirabai Chanu clinched a Silver Medal at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics in weightlifting, wrestler Priya Malik stamped her authority in the World Cadet Wrestling Championship in Budapest, Hungary by winning the gold medal on Sunday.

Priya defeated her Belarus opponent Kseniya Patapovich 5-0 in the final in the 73kg category to win the gold medal. Priya has been consistently winning golds since her medal win the 2019 Khelo India Games in Pune in 2019.

After which she went on to win the gold in the same year at the 17th School Games in Delhi and won two more gold medals in the subsequent year in 2020. After this win in Hungary, Priya also became the first Indian athlete to win a gold medal in World Wrestling Championship.

Apart from her, Varsha, another Indian wrestler won a bronze medal on Thursday in the 65kg category by beating Turkey's Duygu Gen.

While Priya did win a medal, that too gold, however, it wasn't at the ongoing Olympics but fans and many celebrities thought that she did it in Tokyo. Many fans also quoted dialogues from the popular Bollywood film, Dangal, which is a biopic on wrestler Geeta and Babita Phogat.

Actor Milind Soman too first thought that India had bagged their first Gold through Priya Malik but later corrected himself.

Here are some of the reactions:

First Gold medal for India. Proud moment for all of Us .

The Wrestling Champion .

Congratulations #priyamalik pic.twitter.com/pECRufsMu0

— NOMAN.SHAIKH (@noman4IYC) July 25, 2021

Proud moment big big congratulations to our first gold medalists #priyamalik #proudonyou#Olympics #Olympics2021 #firstgoldmedal #Cheer4India pic.twitter.com/n1xM63bUFA

— Maushmi_49 (@MaushmiGoswami4) July 25, 2021

HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS to Priya Malik for WINNING the 1st Gold Medal for INDIA IN WRESTLING AT D TOKYO OLYMPICS. WELL DONE. U HAVE DONE ALL OF US INDIANS PROUD.

— Surinder Khanna (@SurinderKhanna3) July 25, 2021

Proud moment big big congratulations to our first gold medalists #priyamalik #proudonyou#Olympics #Olympics2021 #firstgoldmedal #Cheer4India pic.twitter.com/n1xM63bUFA

— Maushmi_49 (@MaushmiGoswami4) July 25, 2021

Thank you Priya Malik! #gold #TokoyoOlympics #wrestling welcome to Mt Olympus 

— Milind Usha Soman (@milindrunning) July 25, 2021

So proud of you Priya Malik 
For winning first Gold Medal for our Nation#Cheer4India pic.twitter.com/mlvagwYEc6

— Pranav Kumar (@pinkupranav) July 24, 2021

India's daughter Wrestler Priya Malik created history, won gold in World Cadet Wrestling Championships

Bharat Mata Be Like: "'Maari chhoriya chhoro se kam hai ke" pic.twitter.com/QrdSPDrEoJ

— ADV. ASHUTOSH J. DUBEY (@AdvAshutoshDube) July 25, 2021