Indian Wrestling Thread ...

[Atithee]

^^and you still think Rahul will lead the INC to unseat BJP in the next general elections?

[Saffron Lenin]

^^and you still think Rahul will lead the INC to unseat BJP in the next general elections?

Rahul will lead INC.....He can or can't unseat BJP.
I just don't want Modi's fate same as Atal vihari Bajpayee!!!

[srini]

So Antim finally gets to play in place of Vinesh! Great news...i think she deserves to play Asian games and would have defeated Vinesh is trials were held.

[prasen9]

And there will be a chip on her shoulders to become the undisputed leader.

This is where the nationalistic Olympics and Asian Games are a problem. It is cruelly unjust to athletes the world over. If you want to give some quotas to nations with weaker sports infrastructure, money, etc. that is fine. But, preventing top athletes from participating just because they were born in the same region is discrimination at its worst.

[Saffron Lenin]

And there will be a chip on her shoulders to become the undisputed leader.

This is where the nationalistic Olympics and Asian Games are a problem. It is cruelly unjust to athletes the world over. If you want to give some quotas to nations with weaker sports infrastructure, money, etc. that is fine. But, preventing top athletes from participating just because they were born in the same region is discrimination at its worst.

At least two wrestlers should be allowed like badminton!!!

[prasen9]

The top k wrestlers by ranking should be in. The problem is that wrestling does not have that many tournaments to have a good ranking. They should start giving points for national tournaments and international tournaments maybe ELO style and come up with something. Each nation should be allowed 4 wrestlers if you want to restrict by nation. Or at least, nations who win medals should be allowe more wrestlers in the next meet, etc.

[sameerph]

Best ever performance by Indian women junior wrestlers at world under 20 championships at Amman, Jordan.

Indian women team won 3 golds, 1 silver and 3 bronze medals and with that overtook powerhouses such as Japan, USA and Russia to win a team title for the first time ever at any wrestling WC- senior or junior.

3 Indian gold medalists- Antim Panghal in 53 kgs. Savita in 62 kgs and Priya Malik in 76 kgs. All 3 are highly talented wrestlers- Antim won her second consecutive gold at WC after 2022, she beat Mariia YEFREMOVA (UKR), an internationally unbeaten wrestler in seven competitions in final here.
Both Savita and Priya are 2 time under 17 world champions and Priya also won a siiver at under 20 WC last year. Priya beat an American who was firm favourite her in the SF while Savita pinned a Japanese in QF.

Before that in mens freestyle, we won 1 gold ( Mohit Kumar in 61 kgs), 1 silver and 3 bronze medals.

Greco Roman still to come but not expecting much from there.

[Saffron Lenin]

Indian wrestlers at World Wrestling Championships 2023 - full list
Greco-Roman

Ajay - 55kg
Manish - 60kg
Vikram - 63kg
Vinayak - 67kg
Ankit Gulia - 72kg
Gurpreet Singh - 77kg
Sajan - 82kg
Manoj Kumar - 87kg
Shailesh - 97kg
Mehar Singh - 130kg
Women’s freestyle

Neelam Sirohi - 50kg
Antim Panghal - 53kg
Neha - 55kg
Sarita Mor - 57kg
Anjali - 59kg
Manisha Bhanwala - 62kg
Antim Kundu - 65kg
Priyanka - 68kg
Jyoti Berwal - 72kg
Divya Kakran - 76kg
Men’s freestyle

TBD


https://olympics.com/en/news/indian-wre ... quad-x4475

[Saffron Lenin]

Antim Panghal tops World Championship trial again!!!

Divya Kakran and Sarita bounce back after losing Asian Games trials few weeks ago!!

[srini]

Indian wrestlers at World Wrestling Championships 2023 - full list
Greco-Roman

Ajay - 55kg
Manish - 60kg
Vikram - 63kg
Vinayak - 67kg
Ankit Gulia - 72kg
Gurpreet Singh - 77kg
Sajan - 82kg
Manoj Kumar - 87kg
Shailesh - 97kg
Mehar Singh - 130kg
Women’s freestyle

Neelam Sirohi - 50kg
Antim Panghal - 53kg
Neha - 55kg
Sarita Mor - 57kg
Anjali - 59kg
Manisha Bhanwala - 62kg
Antim Kundu - 65kg
Priyanka - 68kg
Jyoti Berwal - 72kg
Divya Kakran - 76kg
Men’s freestyle

TBD


https://olympics.com/en/news/indian-wre ... quad-x4475

That link says "Olympic medallist Bajrang Punia and former world championships silver medallist Deepak Punia have excused themselves from Saturday’s men’s freestyle trials." So that means we will see some one else in place of Bajrang for WC ? If trials happened Saturday why the results are not yet declared for Men's Freestyle ?

[Saffron Lenin]

Men's Freestyle:

57kg Aman (RSPB), 61kg Akash Dahiya (SSCB), 65kg Anuj Kumar (Haryana), 70kg Abhimanyu (Delhi), 74kg Naveen (Haryana), 79kg Sachin More (Haryana), 86kg Sandeep Singh (Punjab), 92kg Pruthviraj Patil (SSCB), 97kg Sahil (Punjab), 125kg Sumit Malik (Haryana).

[sameerph]

World wrestling championships and Asian games are too close together, only 10 days gap. So, ideally one should have separate teams for both events.

Usually, I would say best team for Asian games and second best for WC since Asian games is once in 4 years event while WC is every year. But, this WC also provides quota places for Olympics which is the ultimate pinnacle for sport like wrestling. So, probably one has to do mix and match of best competitors.

As I see the Indian wrestling team, there are only 3 wrestlers who are common in both teams- Aman Sherawat and Sumit in freestyle and Antim Panghal in women. So, these are virtually different teams and I would say Asian games team looks the better team.

So, I doubt except for Aman and Antim who are best in their categories, anyone else is capable of winning a olympic quota place in this event ( i,e finishing in top 5).

[Saffron Lenin]

Wrestling World Championships Preview: Aman, Antim headline squad; Indians to compete under neutral flag

https://www.espn.in/wrestling/story/_/i ... a-flag-uww

[Saffron Lenin]

Matches to start from today!!

[Saffron Lenin]

Today was freestyle event in 61 kg,70kg, 86kg, and 125 kg!!!

All Indian players lost in 1st or 2nd round!!! Nobody qualifies for quarters