Vinesh Phogat’s Olympics gold medal dream got shattered. The wrestler was found to be overweight by a minuscule. As a result she was disqualified from taking part in the finals bout. The UWW’s rules regarding disqualification is pretty strict. 15 minutes of cut off time is given during which a wrestler can weigh themselves as many times as they want.
Reports claim that Vinesh was overweight by a very small margin and thus as a result was disqualified. On Day 1 of the weigh in, a stipulated time of 30 minutes is allowed. While on the second day lasts for just 15 minutes.
What does UWW rule say on disqualification?
Despite trying her best, Vinesh Phogat couldn’t trim down her weight to the 50kg mark. Reports claim that last night she was about 2 kgs overweight. She tried a lot to trim down on her extra weight and thus eventually failed by mere 100 gm on the final day of the weigh -in.
“For all competitions, the weigh-in is organized each morning of the concerned weight-category. The weigh-in and the medical control lasts 30 minutes. The second morning of the concerned weight category only the wrestlers who participate in the repechages and finals have to come for the weigh-in. This weigh-in will last 15 minutes,” UWW’s weigh-in rule states.
“If an athlete does not attend or fail the weigh-in (the 1st or the 2nd weigh-in), he will be eliminated of the competition and ranked last, without rank. If an athlete is injured during the first day, he doesn’t have to attend the second weigh-in and will keep his results,” says the UWW rules about weigh-in.
