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In the Indian wrestling sphere dominated by and hailed for freestyle and women’s disciplines, Greco-Roman has carved its own place over a span of six days of the Asian Wrestling Championships in New Delhi last week. The fact that the Greco-Roman wrestlers added five medals, including Sunil Kumar’s gold, to India’s tally of 20 establishes that the Greco-Romans have emerged in India from the shadow of the much-fancied freestyle and women’s wrestling.                    The Olympic discipline has risen in style. The nation has got reasons to follow Greco-Roman wrestling. The emergence of icons will start driving the gen-next of Indian wrestling also towards Greco-Roman. India, the 2020 Asian Championships hosts, had bettered the 2019 performance, winning five medals including one gold by Sunil Kumar.  Sunil’s first-place finish was special in more than one ways. The Haryana born wrestler with the gold also end...

The Indian wrestlers are shocked with the deferment of the  Asian Olympic Qualifiers  due to Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.  A 14-member Indian contingent was scheduled to fly to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on March 24 to participate in the qualification tournament for the Tokyo Olympic Games. The qualifiers were scheduled from March 27 to 29.                                             The host governing body has decided to postpone the qualifiers as a step of precaution. The news has taken the Indian grapplers completely off-guard. Asian Championships Greco-Roman 87kg gold medallist was disappointed by the decision as he believed  Asian qualifiers   gave a better chance to the Indian grapplers to qualify for Olympics. “ Asian Qualifiers  were easy for us. The World Olympic Qualifiers will be tougher as there will be more wrestlers bi...

The trials for 62kg and 76kg women’s wrestling are being conducted today at SAI Centre, Lucknow for India’s entry in the next month’s  Asian Olympic Qualifiers .  Sakshi , Sarita, Mansi and Sonam entered the semi-finals.  Pooja Dhanda and Navjot Kaur saw an early exit from the trials after loosing to Sarita and Mansi respectively.                                                          FULL RESULTS of the Trials: Women’s 62kg:  Qualifications: Mansi in semi-finals after beating Anita 6-0 in the quarter-finals. She will now face  Sakshi  in the semi-finals. Quarter-finals: Sarita Mor beat Pooja Dhanda by 3-2 in quarter-finals. Sonam beat Radhika by 5-1 in quarter-finals. She now enters semi-finals and will play Sarita. Navjot Kaur is out of the race after losing to Mansi 4-2. Sakshi beats Seema 8-2...

Two-time Olympic medallist  Sushil Kumar  has extended a helping hand to boxing legend Dingko Singh in his fight against liver cancer. Kumar along with several other individuals have come forward to help the former boxer financially.  Dingko is suffering from lung cancer for which he had first been successfully treated three years ago. The 1998 Bangkok Asian Games gold medallist Dingko has been undergoing test at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences in New Delhi since January 28 and is struggling to raise funds for his treatment.                                                       Dingko’s financial woes and his struggle to raise funds for his cancer treatment moved double Olympic medallist  Sushil  so much that he decided to support the legendary boxing champ. Not only  Sushil  but Sports mi...

Turkmenistan have become the second team to withdraw from the  Asian Wrestling Championship , New Delhi Wrestling Federation of India assistant secretary Vinod Tomar has confirmed the development. The WFI has received an email from the Turkmenistan authority regarding the pull-out. “Turkmenistan has withdrawn from the Asian meet,” Tomar said, adding, “The team will not participate in the Senior Asian Championships as their Government is not allowing the players to travel due to the Coronavirus threat.” There is no certainty over any replacement, if at all, for Turkmenistan. Earlier, North Korea had pulled out of the Championship, also for the Coronavirus epidemic reason WrestlingTV was the first to report that the Korean squad will not be participating in the championships to be held in New Delhi from February 18 to 23. Myrat Hojanepesov, Mekan Orazov, Kerim Hojakov, Batyr Borjakov, Gurbanmyrat Ovezberdiyev, Dovletmyrat Orazgylyjov, Rahmangeldi Vepayev, Zyyam...

Wrestler-turned-Mixed Martial Arts fighter  Ritu Phogat  on Wednesday said she might return to wrestling in future but currently she’s focussed on putting in the hard yards to achieve her dream of becoming India’s first MMA world champion. Ritu, who had bagged the 2016 Commonwealth Wrestling Championships gold and silver at the 2017 World Under-23 Championships, won her debut MMA fight at the One:  Age of Dragons event, beating South Korea’s Nam Hee Kim in under three minutes.                 The 25-year-old from Haryana, daughter of the legendary wrestling coach Mahavir Singh Phogat, will next feature in her second MMA bout on February 28 in Singapore. “I know I still have a long way to go, but I’m willing to continue to put the work in until I reach my ultimate goal.  My dream is to give India its first ever mixed martial arts world champion,” she said ahead of her face-off with China’s Pro MMA fighter Wu Chiao C...

The star-studded list of Monday-night semifinalists featured countless Olympic, world and continental medalists.  But it wasn’t any of the well-known stars who shinned the brightest under the lights at the Pala Pellicone Arena in the seaside town of Ostia, Italy. Edmond NAZARYAN (BUL), the barely 18-year-old baby-faced Bulgarian, was the unlikely star who blew the roof of the arena on his way to locking up a trip to the  European  finals. Nazaryan rose to the occasion in his senior debut and scored the improbable come-from-behind fall over 2018 world champion Eldaniz AZIZLI (AZE). He’ll wrestle for European gold on Tuesday night, two weeks after his 18th birthday. Nazaryan, the son of two-time Olympic champion Armen NAZARYAN (BUL), surrendered five first-period points but responded by lighting up the scoreboard with seven unanswered points before pancaking Azizli to his back for the fall. The youngster will wrestle eighth-ranked Vitalii KABA...

Amidst uncertainty over visas, the Chinese Wrestling Federation has named a 30-strong squad for the  Asian Wrestling Championships  to be held in New Delhi. The visa issues have led to uncertainty of the Chinese contingent’s arrival for the  Asian Championships , scheduled to start on February 18 at the KD Jadhav Wrestling Hall at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi. The problem has occurred as the External Affairs Ministry of India has temporarily suspended the electronic visa facility for the travelers from China in wake of the Coronavirus spread.  The visas granted before the virus hit China too stand cancelled. However, the  Wrestling Federation of India  has taken up the matter with the government to ensure that the visas are granted to all the participants in compliance with the Unite World Championship and the International Olympic Committee directives. UWW has already warned the WFI that if visas were not provided to all the pa...

Wrestling Federation of India is optimistic that the home team will bag up to five gold medals at the Asian Wrestling Championships 2020, to be held in New Delhi from February 18 to 23. Bajrang Punia was the only Indian to bag gold in the last edition of the  Asian Wrestling Championships,  hosted by China. The Wrestling Federation of India is this time hopeful that India will win as many as five gold medals in the tournament in New Delhi. “We have high expectations from Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat, Anshu Malik, Ravi Dahiya and Deepak Punia to win gold medals in the Senior Asian Wrestling Championships,” WFI Chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh said at a Press conference in Constitution Club of India, New Delhi on Wednesday. Bajrang and Ravi Dahiya have been impressive with their performances at the  UWW World Championships 2019 , where both have won bronze medals.  The duo has returned with  and gold in the Rome Ranking series this year. Dee...

The veteran wrestler is now working hard for the Asian Wrestling Championships 2020, to be held in New Delhi from February 18 to 23. Olympic Bronze medallist  Sakshi Malik  is hopeful of getting another opportunity to contest for a berth for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. “I am hopeful for another round of trials. If I qualify in that I will have two more chances, the Asian World Olympics qualifiers and the World Olympics qualifiers. I want to qualify in the two key tournaments,” Sakshi told WrestlingTV while gearing up for the Asian Wrestling Championship. Sakshi was defeated by two-time world cadet champion Sonam Malik in 62 kg weight category in the trials for the Asian World Olympics qualifiers in January this year.  “Preparations for the Asian Wrestling Champions have been good. My motto is to give the best, be it any competition, and win medals,”   Sakshi   said and added that she is working on getting rid of errors she had com...

The Iran Wrestling Federation has announced their freestyle squad for the  Asian Wrestling Championships   scheduled to start from 18th February in Delhi.  The Iranian squad will be led by young Mohammadshafie Goleij who won the U23 World Championship gold in Budapest in 97kg category. Iran has selected most of their U23 squad members in the team for the Asian Championship and none of the senior squad member that played the world championship in 2019 in Nur-Sultan has been selected for participation in Delhi.  Other than Goleij, Under 23 World bronze medallist in 57kg AliReza Sarlak is in the squad and will take on India’s Ravi Dhaiya in the category for the gold medal. 2018 Senior World championship bronze winner Pervez Hadi will be making his comeback in Iran team in Delhi. Hadi was out of action for few months due to injury and could not make it to the 2019 World Championships. Iran won record 11 gold medals at the last Asian Wrestling Ch...

The senior Asian Wrestling Championships 2020 is set to take place in Delhi from February 18-23 at the KD Jadhav Indoor Hall.  The United World Wrestling gave hosting rights to the national capital after through inspections and evaluation.  The other city which was in the race is Cuttack (Orissa). This will also be the 8th time India will be hosting the flagship event. The wrestling matches will take place on all the Six days between 10:30 am to 8:30 pm. Watch Live on  WrestlingTV.in The UWW has said that the Asian Wrestling Championship will be considered as a Ranking competition to determine rankings for the Tokyo Olympics.  The competition will also be a preparatory ground for the Indian wrestlers before the Asian and World Qualifiers. The last time India hosted the competion was in 2017. In 2018 and 2019, the championships had taken place in Bishtek, Kyrgyzstan and Xian, China respectively.  India had won as many as 16 medals in the 201...