July 18, 2021 11:12 pm | Updated 11:12 pm IST
Shushila Likmabam will be the 13th judoka from India to feature in the Olympics and in seven Olympic Games appearances (1992-2016), Indian judokas have managed to win only four bouts.
In 2004, Akram Shah defeated USA’s Williams Murray in the men’s 60 kg Repechage 1 round. Since then, — Tombi Devi, Divya Tewar in 2008, Garima Chaudhary in 2012, and Avtar Singh in 2016 — failed to record a win.
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