In the lead-up to the Paris Olympic Games, India`s two-time Olympian Vinesh Phogat won the gold medal in the women`s 50kg category in the Grand Prix of Spain international continental wrestling championship here on Saturday. Vinesh defeated Mariia Tiumerekova former Russian grappler now competing as an Individual Neutral Athlete 10-5 in the final encounter to bag the yellow metal. 

The 29-year-old Vinesh, who had reached Madrid after making a last-minute appeal to get her Spanish Visa which was delayed and got it only a few hours before her departure, won three bouts without much difficulty to storm into the final.