Indian Wrestling Thread ...

[srini]

In a wrestling forum they were suspecting bribe (American fans of course who were rooting for Antim to be final so that Parrish could get into repechages.)
https://intermatwrestle.com/forums/topi ... t/page/87/

[Saffron Lenin]

In a wrestling forum they were suspecting bribe (American fans of course who were rooting for Antim to be final so that Parrish could get into repechages.)
https://intermatwrestle.com/forums/topi ... t/page/87/

Really

[Saffron Lenin]

Antim wins bronze in wc beating her opponent by 16-6!!

[sameerph]

Yes, great performance by Antim to win so convincingly after the heartbreak yesterday in the SF and win our first and mostly our only medal at this world championships. And also our first Paris Olympics quota in wrestling.

And she is only 19, what a prospect for future.

[Saffron Lenin]

Yes, great performance by Antim to win so convincingly after the heartbreak yesterday in the SF and win our first and mostly our only medal at this world championships. And also our first Paris Olympics quota in wrestling.

And she is only 19, what a prospect for future.

Only 19

[indiansportsfan]

It is possible (although a little far-fetched) she lost intentionally either becauue she didn't want to face the Japanase wrestler in the final or because she wanted to deny the American wrestler a chance to qualify for the Olympics.

[Saffron Lenin]

It is possible (although a little far-fetched) she lost intentionally either becauue she didn't want to face the Japanase wrestler in the final or because she wanted to deny the American wrestler a chance to qualify for the Olympics.

No, she was crying after she lost the match!!! It was not intentional.....,You can see how emotionally invested she was

[srini]

Japanese Wrestler Akari won the final also with 10-0. All her matches except QF were 10-0. (QF was 16-7). She is also 19 and i think she would be the Gold medalist at Paris too.

[sameerph]

Decent performance in Asian games for wrestling with 5 medals ( 1 silver and 4 bronzes) as compared to 3 medals last time although no golds as compared 2 last time. But, after all that wrestling has gone thru in last few months, this is a good result.

Deepak Punia is now coming close to our all time greats category- he now has a world championship medal and an Asian games medal. Something only the likes of Bajrang and Yogeshwar Dutt has. Even Sushil Kumar does not have Asian games medal in his kitty but of course has 2 olympic medals. Deepak must now add Olympic medal to his kitty to join these greats.

Deepak, Antim and Aman are medal prospects for Paris olympics right now. Can we add a few more in next few months. On mens side do not side much chance, even if Ravi Kumar comes back from injury he will challenge Aman in same weight category and if Vinesh comes back she will challenge Antim. Only if Bajrang comes back to his earlier level, we can have one more contender.

In women though, we can add few more contenders in short time apart from Antim, Sonam has shown great form to beat a Chinese WC medalist here, she can be in contention, also in 76 kgs junior Priya Malik who won gold in recent world junior championships. Also Anshu who has already won a medal in world championships. So, she can come back. I

If we can have 6-7 contenders by the time Paris comes along, we can hope for 2-3 medals.

[Saffron Lenin]

UWW will lift WFI suspension only after free and fair elections


United World Wrestling (UWW) president Nenad Lalovic said it will lift the suspension of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) the moment it conducts free and fair elections, but not before that.


"Let's hope the situation does not remain confused," Lalovic said. "There must be a hearing of the Supreme Court on the 3rd of November and after that, I believe the elections will be organised in a month or so in order to have normal governance of the federation."


https://www.hindustantimes.com/sports/o ... 35655.html

[sameerph]

In the world under 23 wrestling championships, we ended with 9 medals- 1 gold, 2 silvers and 6 bronze medals. This is an improvement over 1 gold, 1 silver and 4 bronze medals last time.

Major improvement was in womens wrestling where we had only 1 silver and 1 bronze but 1 gold, 2 silvers and 3 bronze medals this time.

The only gold medal came in womens 76 kgs where Reetika Hooda beat American Keneddey Blades in the final and beat wrestlers from Japan, Russia and Ukraine in earlier rounds. This is a very promising performance.

Suddenly in women, the highest weight class of 76 kgs is looking promising for us- Couple of months back we got world junior gold thru Priya Malik, than bronze at Asian games by Kiran and now world under 23 gold thru Reetika.

Hope one of these 3 qualifes for Paris and could than be a contender for medal.

[Saffron Lenin]

Wrestling squad selection for Paris Olympics: Two-step process to pick wrestlers, Antim to compete against Challenger

The wrestling squad for the 2024 Paris Olympics will be finalised through a two-step selection process, where the grapplers who have earned the quota places for the country will compete against a challenger in June and the winner will represent India in the quadrennial showpiece.So far, only Antim Panghal, the world championships bronze medallist in 53kg category, has earned a quota place for the country and she too will have to compete against a challenger on June 1 to know whether she will go to Paris or not.

While only Antim has been able to clinch an Olympic quota place for the country, more wrestlers are expected to earn slots for India in the two upcoming events - the Asian Olympic Qualifier in Kyrgyzstan (April 19-21) and the World Olympic Qualifiers in Turkey (May 9-12).
India can earn 17 more Paris quota places in the two tournaments - six each in men’s free-style and greco-roman and five in the women’s category.
All the future quota places winners too will have to compete against a challenger to secure a Paris spot.

The other members of the Indian contingent for the two Olympic qualifying events will be selected on the basis of trials, to be conducted in all 30 Olympic and non-Olympic categories, from February 27-29.All grapplers who were part of the Hangzhou Asian Games and 2023 Senior World Championships can compete in the February trials, besides international medallists in various championships, winners of open trials in U-17, U-20, U-23 categories and all senior Nationals and National Games medallists this year.

https://sportstar.thehindu.com/wrestlin ... 573260.ece

[sameerph]

So, quota winner will be in a much more advantageous position as compared to quota winner in shooting. He will have to win only 1 bout against a challenger while shooting quota winner will have to compete in 4 trials against top 4-5 other opponents. I think it is fair because wrestling quota competitions are being held in April-May 2024 which is close to Paris olympics and also usually wrestling results are less random than shooting where current form is more important.

[Saffron Lenin]

wrestling results are less random than shooting where current form is more important.

Exactly!!!!!

[srini]

So, quota winner will be in a much more advantageous position as compared to quota winner in shooting. He will have to win only 1 bout against a challenger while shooting quota winner will have to compete in 4 trials against top 4-5 other opponents. I think it is fair because wrestling quota competitions are being held in April-May 2024 which is close to Paris olympics and also usually wrestling results are less random than shooting where current form is more important.

Yes i think 1 trial is fair for wrestling as wrestling is less random...but since wrestling is such an energy sapping sport need to make sure the challenger gets enough time (couple of weeks ) after challenger qualifying tournament before he/she competes with the quota winner.