Wrestlers Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik, Vines Phogat and Satyawrat Kadiyan have moved the Delhi High Court against the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) decision to conduct selection trials for the Senior Asian Wrestling Championships 2024 and Asian Olympic Games Qualifier Wrestling Tournam
Indian wrestler Panghal defended her title at the U20 World Wrestling Championships to claim the third gold medal for India in Jordan, while Sehrawat claimed the gold medal in the 57 kg category, defeating Kyrgyzstan's Almaz Smanbekov in the final clash of Asian Wrestling Championships 2023
The continental-level competition was held from June 10 to June 18 with 60 Indian wrestlers aiming to win medals across different age groups in different weight categories.
The wrestlers will compete at the U23 and U17 Asian Wrestling Championships in 2023 in the men's and women's freestyle and men's Greco-Roman divisions. In each of the three wrestling forms for each age group, there are ten weight divisions.
In the match against Uzbekistan's Sardorbek Kholmatov in the 125kg men's freestyle category, Anirudh won clearly by technical superiority 12-2 to achieve his bronze medal, as per Olympic.com.
Antim Panghal one of the rising athletes in India, competing in her first international tournament this year, bagged a silver medal at the Asian Wrestling Championships 2023 in Astana, Kazakhstan on Wednesday.
The remaining five Indian women wrestlers - U20 world champion Antim Paghal (53kg), Anshu Malik (57kg), Sonam Malik (62kg), Manisha (65kg) and Reetika Hooda (72kg) - will be competing on Wednesday.
Indian contingent finished its Greco-Roman campaign with a total of four medals, with Rupin (55 kg), Neeraj (63 kg) and Sunil Kumar (87 kg) getting bronze medals earlier
Rupin, who is 19 years old, finished with his first medal, a silver on the international senior circuit after losing the championship match 3-1 to Iran's Pouya Dadmarz, the current U-23 world champion, as per Olympics.com
India has plenty of firepower in the lineup to make an impression at the 36th iteration of the continental competition, despite the big names missing the Asian championship. The Indian wrestling squad is headed to Astana and includes medalists from previous world championships Deepak Punia,