With India’s high freestyle wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Ravi Dahiya dominated out of the nationwide choice trials for the Asian Wrestling Championships on account of accidents on Friday, all eyes are on some promising kids who will shoulder India’s hopes.
Aman Sehrawat, who turned the primary Indian to win a gold medal on the U-23 World Championships final 12 months, is one such teen. The 18-year-old is in good type after lately successful a bronze medal on the Zagreb Ranking Series occasion.
In Dahiya’s 57kg class, through which he received the Tokyo silver, Sehrawat impressed from the off. After successful a cushty first bout, he put in a powerful efficiency, overturning a 0-4 deficit in opposition to Aatish Todkar of Maharashtra to win 14-4.
The shock of the day got here within the 70kg class, the place one other junior world championship medalist Mulayam Yadav from Uttar Pradesh defeated 2022 Commonwealth Games gold medalist Naveen Malik 7-4.
Among those that missed out on the promising crop of wrestlers had been Sagar Jaglan and Sujit. The latter missed out on fellow Haryana wrestler Anuj Kumar within the 65kg class, whereas Sagar was knocked out within the closing playoff spherical of the 74kg class by Delhi’s Yash Tushir, who booked his flight to Astana, the place he’ll compete from April 7 to 7. The program will probably be organized between 15, successful 8–3. Yash received gold within the 2022 National Games, whereas Sagar is the nationwide champion in wrestling.
The occasion was initially scheduled to be held in New Delhi, however governing physique United World Wrestling (UWW) moved it in a foreign country after the Sports Ministry appointed an oversight committee to supervise the day-to-day working of the game following allegations . Allegations of sexual harassment and intimidation had been leveled in opposition to the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) President Brij Bhushan Singh.
Punia and Dahiya, who had been sidelined with wrist and knee accidents respectively, had been members of a gaggle of wrestlers who protested in opposition to Brij Bhushan in Delhi in January.
The Oversight Committee, headed by former boxer Mary Kom, which additionally included wrestlers Babita Phogat and Yogeshwar Dutt, hosted the choice trials.
One of the opposing contingent, Deepak Punia, a former world championship silver medallist, comfortably booked his place within the 92kg class of the Asian occasion. 2022 Commonwealth Games bronze medalist Deepak Nehra additionally made the reduce within the 97kg class.
The choice trials for ladies wrestlers will probably be held in New Delhi on Saturday.
Wrestlers certified for Asian Championship
Freestyle:
57kg: Aman Sehrawat
61kg: Pankaj
65 kg: Anuj Kumar
70 kg: Mulayam Yadav
74 kg: Yash Tushar
79 kg: Deepak
86 kg: Jonty Kumar
92 kg: Deepak Punia
97 kg: Deepak Nehra
125 kg: Anirudh
Greco-Roman:
55 kg: Rupin
60 kg: Sumit
63 kg: Neeraj
67 kg: Ashu
72 kg: Vikas
77kg: Sajan
82kg: Rohit Dahiya
87 kg: Sunil Kumar
97kg: Narendra Cheema
130 kg: Naveen
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
