The Greco-Roman and women’s freestyle wrestlers were shortlisted through selection trials held at the Kedar Jadhav Hall in New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Stadium on Saturday.
Trials will be conducted in all 18 Olympic weight categories - six each for women’s and men’s freestyle and men's Greco-Roman - which will be contested at the upcoming Asian Games.
New Delhi [India], June 26: ITM University Gwalior has continued its impressive run in the field of sports as we have again made it another win in the Khelo India University Games 2023. ITM University Gwalior Congratulates Deepanshu Sherawat for winning Silver Medal 130 kg Greco Roman in Khe
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 bronze-medal match, Manjeet was up against Yersin Abyir of Kazakhstan. However, the 32-year-old Indian wrestler utilised all of his experience to defeat Yersin Abyir, 23, 14-9.
The Indian contingent that will comprise 46 members (11 Freestyle, 10 Greco Roman and 9 women wrestlers and 16 coaches and support staff) will take part in the event that is set to take place from June 1 to 4 and help wrestlers get crucial ranking points that is important for seeding at majo
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
Abuladze made it to the final and Gulia made it to the repechage round and defeated Kyrgyzstan's Nurzhigit Keneshbek Uulu by 9-0 on basis of technical superiority
Indian greco-roman wrestler Ashu clinched a bronze medal in the men's 67 kg category at the ongoing Zagreb Open 2023 Ranking Series in Croatia on Sunday.