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Hansika Lamba Silver Budapest Ranking Series: Polyak Imre, Varga Janos and Kozma Istvan Memorial 2026 ‘Budapest Ranking Series’ held in Hungary India’s 19-year-old wrestler Hansika Lamba performed brilliantly and won the silver medal in the women’s 55 kg category. In the final she suffered a 5–0 defeat against former junior European champion Natalia Klevchutska of Ukraine.

Hansika Lamba’s magic

Hansika defeated Turkey’s ‘Tuba Demir’ in the quarterfinals. Defeated 8-4. After this, Germany’s ‘Anastasia Blywas’ Made a brilliant comeback against India by winning 10-7 and made it to the finals. Earlier this year, she had also won bronze medal in Asian Championship and Ulaanbaatar Open.

Priyanshi Prajapat missed the bronze medal

India’s Priyanshi Prajapat missed out on a bronze medal in the women’s 50kg category. In the bronze medal match, she faced former Pan-American champion ‘Jacqueline Molokana’ of Ecuador. Defeated 4-2. Priyanshi had initially defeated Pan-American champion Katie Gomez but lost to China’s Paris Olympics 2024 bronze medalist ‘Feng Jike’ in the quarterfinals. Lost to. Making a comeback through repechage, she defeated Katie Dutchak of Canada, but could not win the medal match. Whereas, in the same category, India’s Deepanshi was eliminated in the pre-quarterfinals.

Rajat Ruhal won bronze medal

Rajat Ruhal won the bronze medal in the men’s 125 kg category. Silver got a walkover due to America’s Mason Parris withdrawing from the competition due to injury. Earlier, Rajat had lost to Poland’s Kamil Koscholek in the quarter-finals, but reached the bronze medal match by defeating South Korea’s Gwanuk Kim 8-4 in the repechage.

In the same category, Dinesh Dhankhar was eliminated in the quarter-finals. Apart from this, Puneet Kumar (92 kg) and Olympian Deepak Punia (97 kg) were out of the competition after losing their respective preliminary matches.

India’s medal count reaches five

With this performance, India’s medal tally in the Budapest Ranking Series has increased to five. Earlier, Aman Sehrawat (57 kg) had won the gold medal, while Deepak (61 kg) and Vishal Kaliramana (65 kg) had won bronze medals.

Now India’s eyes will be on World Championship bronze medalist Final Panghal, who will challenge in the women’s 53 kg category on Saturday. This tournament is the fourth and final stage of this season’s United World Wrestling Championship Series.