Priya Malik at Asian Games 2026: Women's 76kg Wrestling Schedule, Results & Profile

Priya Malik is one of six Indian women in the wrestling squad for the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, alongside Dipanshi (50kg), Antim Panghal (53kg), Manisha Bhanwala (57kg), Mansi Ahlawat (62kg) and Nisha Dahiya (68kg). Wrestling started on 30 September at the Nagoya City Inae Sports Center, with each weight category decided in a single day.

Priya Malik lost her opening-round bout 1-6 to Aiperi Medet Kyzy of Kyrgyzstan on 2 October, a three-time world medallist who won 76kg gold at the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou. Both had wrestled in the 76kg draw at the 2024 Asian Championships in Bishkek, where Aiperi won gold and Priya finished fifth.

This was a single-elimination bracket with a repechage for wrestlers beaten by a finalist. Medet Kyzy did not reach the gold-medal final, so Priya had no route into the repechage and her campaign ended there. Read our complete guide to Asian Games 2026 in Nagoya, Japan, check the Asian Games 2026 India schedule, and see where to watch Asian Games 2026 live in India. See the full Asian Games 2026 wrestling schedule for every India bout.

Priya Malik is a 21 yr old Indian freestyle wrestler from Nidani village in Jind district, Haryana, who competes in the women's 76kg category. She is a two-time Cadet World Champion (2021 and 2022) and a U20 World Champion (2023), and she won bronze at the 2023 Asian Championships in Astana on her senior international debut. In 2025 she added a U23 World Championships bronze and a U23 Asian title. She now represents India in the women's 76kg event at the 2026 Asian Games.

Priya Malik's rise from a small village in Jind to the Asian Games squad is built on a run of junior titles. Few Indian women wrestlers have won as many age-group world titles, and her 76kg category is an Olympic weight, which makes her progress in the senior ranks closely watched.

Priya Malik was born in Nidani village, Jind district, Haryana. Her father, Jayabhagwan Nidani, is an Indian Army veteran who left the service in 2017 to support her training. She studied at Choudhary Bharat Singh Memorial School and began winning national age-group titles in 2019, including gold at the Khelo India Youth Games in Pune and the School Games in Delhi, followed by gold at the 2020 National Cadet Championship in Patna.

Priya Malik won her first world title at the 2021 World Cadet Championships in Budapest, taking the 73kg gold by beating Belarus's Kseniya Patapovich 5-0 in the final. She defended the Cadet world title in 2022 in Rome by defeating Ukraine's Mariia Zenkina in the final. At U20 level she won silver at the 2022 World Championships in Sofia, gold at the 2023 U20 World Championships in Amman (beating Germany's Laura Kuehn 5-0 in the final), and another silver at the 2025 U20 Worlds in Samokov.

• 2022: Gold at the U17 Asian Championships and silver at the U20 Asian Championships.
• 2023: Bronze at the Asian Championships in Astana on her senior international debut (76kg), and gold at the U20 Asian Championships in Amman.
• 2024: Gold at the U23 Asian Championships in Amman (76kg) and fifth place at the Senior Asian Championships in Bishkek.
• 2025: Gold at the U23 Asian Championships in Vung Tau, bronze at the U23 World Championships in Novi Sad, silver at the Grand Prix in Budapest, and silver at the U20 World Championships in Samokov.
• 2026: Gold in women's +70kg beach wrestling at the Asian Beach Games in Sanya, beating Mongolia's Bolortungalag Zorigt 3-2 in the final on 29 April.

All times are IST. This table is updated as each result is confirmed.

Priya Malik's women's 76kg campaign began and ended on Friday, 2 October 2026, with a 1-6 opening-round loss to Aiperi Medet Kyzy. Medet Kyzy did not reach the final, so Priya had no repechage route to the bronze medal bout.

Aiperi Medet Kyzy of Kyrgyzstan won bronze at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and gold at the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou, both at 76kg. She also won the 2024 and 2025 Asian Championships and took silver at the 2026 Asian Championships, losing the final to Mongolia's Enkh-Amaryn Davaanasan, which makes her the benchmark in the weight class. She beat Priya Malik 1-6 in the Asian Games 2026 opening round; Medet Kyzy did not reach the final, so Priya had no repechage route.

She also won U20 World silver in 2022 (Sofia) and 2025 (Samokov), U20 Asian silver in 2022, U20 Asian gold in 2023, and the U17 Asian Championships gold in 2022.

Priya Malik is part of a 15-member Indian wrestling squad. The women's team includes Antim Panghal (53kg), Manisha Bhanwala (57kg), Mansi Ahlawat (62kg), Nisha Dahiya (68kg, already eliminated after losing in the repechage) and Dipanshi (50kg), who also lost her opening bout on 2 October. The men's freestyle team is led by Olympic medallist Aman Sehrawat and Sujeet Kalkal. India has won 65 Asian Games wrestling medals in total (11 gold, 15 silver, 39 bronze).

Priya Malik's career already stands out for its early success.

• Two-time Cadet World Champion (2021, 2022)
• U20 World Champion (2023), with U20 World silver medals in 2022 and 2025
• Senior Asian Championships medallist on her first senior international appearance (2023)
• U23 World bronze medallist (2025) and two-time U23 Asian champion (2024, 2025)
• Asian Beach Games gold medallist (2026), who was eliminated in the opening round of the women's 76kg at the Asian Games

From Nidani village in Jind to the mats of Aichi-Nagoya, Priya Malik's Asian Games ended with a tough 1-6 loss to Aiperi Medet Kyzy in the opening round, with no repechage route after that opponent missed the final.