Nickel drops opener at World Championships

Aleah Nickel STEVEN MAH/SOUTHWEST BOOSTER FILE PHOTO

Swift Current’s Aleah Nickel lost her opening match at the 2018 Cadet World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia. She lost by fall in the opening round to Mongolia’s Oyungerel Batkhuyag.

Nickel, 17, is one of 23 wrestlers in the women’s 61 kilogram division. She was eliminated when Batkhuyag lost to Japan’s Riko Takayama in the quarter-final.