India is fielding a 14-man squad for the World Wrestling Olympic Qualifiers scheduled in Istanbul from Thursday, the final probability for wrestlers to acquire their quotas for the Paris 2024 Olympics. The 14 wrestlers embody Aman Sehrawat and Deepak Punia, as per Olympics.com. The occasion will conclude on Might 12. The 2 finalists in every weight divisions will earn the Olympic quotas for his or her respective nations, with three quotas on provide in every weight class. The third quota will go to the winner of the playoff match between two bronze medalists of a specific weight class.
To date, India has secured solely 4 quotas in wrestling for the multi-sporting extravaganza, with all of them achieved by ladies’s wrestlers.
Antim Panghal (53 kg) helped India safe its first quota on the 2023 World Wrestling Championships whereas throughout the Asian Olympic Qualifiers held final month, Vinesh Phogat (50kg), Anshu Malik (57kg) and Reetika Hooda (76kg) added three extra quotas to the record.
In ladies’s wrestling, Mansi Ahlawat and Nisha, in 62 kg and 68 kg respectively, can be India’s solely representatives at Istanbul. Mansi had fallen wanting one win throughout the Asian Olympic Qualifiers in Bishkek however can be aiming to go one step higher and safe the quota.
India has gained 5 medals in freestyle wrestling throughout the earlier 4 editions of the Summer season Olympics, with two of them coming at Tokyo 2020.
However heading into the Paris 2024, Indian participation in males’s freestyle wrestling seems to be extremely bleak. It’s as much as the Aman Sehrawat, a former Asian and U23 world champion, and Olympian Deepak Punia to safe a quota within the freestyle class and restore India’s good fortunes.
Aman, competing in the identical weight division because the Tokyo 2020 silver medalist Ravi Dahiya, fell one win wanting a quota as effectively on the Bishkek Asian Olympic Qualifiers meet.
Deepak Punia, who additionally missed out on a medal throughout the Tokyo 2020 and Sujeet Kalakal, who’s competing in the identical division as Bajrang Punia, the Tokyo 2020 bronze medalist, couldn’t play on the Bishkek qualifiers as their flights have been delayed as a consequence of heavy rainfall in Dubai. However each have an opportunity to play in Istanbul and get their quotas now.
India may also be trying to get the quotas for all six Greco-Roman wrestling classes.
*Indian wrestlers at World Wrestling Olympic Qualifiers 2024
Males’s Greco-Roman: Sumit (60kg), Ashu (67kg), Vikas (77kg), Sunil Kumar (87kg), Nitesh (97kg), Naveen (130kg)
Ladies’s freestyle: Mansi (62kg), Nisha (68kg)
Males’s freestyle: Aman Sehrawat (57kg), Sujeet (65kg), Jaideep (74kg), Deepak Punia (86kg), Deepak (97kg), Sumit (125kg).
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