Wrestling trials for the Asian Games 2023 have begun at the IGI Stadium in Delhi. Women’s and men’s Greco-Roman wrestlers are underway today, July 22, while men’s freestyle wrestling bouts are scheduled for July 23. The trials will be conducted in all 18 Olympic weight categories. Six categories each for women’s and men’s freestyle and men’s Greco-Roman will be contested at the upcoming Asian Games.
The IOA-appointed ad hoc panel of WFI gave direct entries to the nation’s top wrestlers, Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat, into the Asian Games 2023, which angered the whole Indian wrestling community.
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However, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) ad-hoc committee, currently in charge of managing day-to-day affairs of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), said in a circular that it has already selected the wrestlers in men’s freestyle 65kg and women’s 53kg.
In the men’s 65kg division, Olympic medalist Bajrang Punia is India’s top wrestler, and in the women’s 53kg division, world champion and Commonwealth Games champion Vinesh Phogat is the undisputed champion.
Last week, Phogat travelled to Hungary to compete in the Budapest Ranking Series, but he was forced to withdraw due to sickness at the last minute. She is currently studying abroad.
In the meantime, Punia is training in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. In a training camp in the United States are Sakshi Malik and her spouse, Satyawart Kadiyan.
The exemption means that the two wrestlers will get direct entry into the Indian squad for the Asian Games 2023, which are scheduled from September 23 to October 8 in Hangzhou, the People’s Republic of China.
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