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.
This win marks her return to the mat on a commendable note by winning the bronze play-off by 6-2 against the crowd's favourite Hungarian, Viktoria Borsos, who is the U-20 World Championship silver medallist.
The accused have been identified as Praful Gupta, Sarita Gupta, Kunal Almadi, Gaurav Pahwa and Rishabh Dixit. Rishabh is a resident of Kanpur while all other lives in Delhi.
On the last day of the competition on Sunday, India was unable to take home any gold in the men's freestyle category. The competition took place from June 1 to June 4
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.
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,
Leading Indian wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Ravi Kumar Dahiya will not compete in the tournament. Along with the two medalists from the Tokyo Olympics, notable Indian athletes who won't compete in Croatia include top women's wrestler Vinesh Phogat, medalist from the world championships Deepak
The announcement of the commitment was made by Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on Monday. Thakur announced on Monday that boxer Mary Kom will be heading the oversight committee formed to probe into the allegations levelled against the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) and its chief Brij B