Taylor finishes fifth at world junior wrestling championships

TRNAVA, Slovakia – Hannah Taylor will not return home with a medal from the 2018 world junior wrestling championships.
The Prince Edward Islander lost to Mansi Mansi of India in the bronze-medal match on Friday afternoon, and finished fifth in the women’s 57-kilogram class.
After going 1-1 (won-lost) in the single elimination format on Thursday, Taylor received a second opportunity through repechage. The graduate of Three Oaks Senior High School in Summerside defeated Serena Boelke by technical superiority on Friday morning to advance to the bronze-medal match.
The 20-year-old Taylor, a member of the Brock University wrestling team in St. Catharines, Ont., lost a 2-1 decision to Mansi, who took a 2-0 lead. Taylor was awarded a point for passivity to cut the lead in half, but ran out of time.
Taylor won her first match of the tournament against Kazakhstan’s Zhanerke Assanova on Thursday. She lost her quarterfinal bout to the eventual gold-medallist Andoriahanako Sawa of Japan.