The year 2019 was nothing less than phenomenal for the Indian wrestling. Indian wrestlers won medals and accolades at every global stage. Be it seniors or any age group tournaments, be it at the continental level or at world level, Indian wrestlers kept registering new milestones. Along with the Indian male wrestlers, Indian women wrestlers also registered some historic performances at every level.
WreatlingTV, India’s only exclusive platform for the sport of wrestling is conducting a poll to celebrate the achievements of the Indian wrestlers. The WrestlingTV poll will allow the wrestling fans to vote for the best male and female wrestlers from India in year 2019. The fans can cast their votes for their favorite wrestling star by logging into www.WrestlingTV.in. WrestlingTV polling for the best male and female wrestlers will start on 18th Dec and fans can cast their votes till 26th Dec 2019. The winners will be announced on 27th Feb 2019.
Along with the Indian wrestlers, fans can also win by participating in the poll. 5 lucky winners will get official T-SHIRTS of the Indian wrestling team. The names of the 5 lucky winners will be announced on 27th Dec 2019.
1) Vinesh Phogat – Indian wrestling’s strongest girl Vinesh Phogat had a great 2019. In the current year, she became the only Indian women to qualify for Tokyo 2020 at the Senior World Championship. In the process Vinesh also won the world championships bronze medal, only medal by any Indian female wrestler in Nur-Sultan. Not only this, Vinesh also won gold medals in
UWW ranking series events Yasar Dogu and Grand Prix of Spain. Vinesh is currently ranked number 2 in the UWW rankings for 53kg behind Park Yong Mi of North Korea.
2) Pooja Dhanda – The 2018 world championship bronze medallist had a year which was mixed bag. She was on the verge of creating history for India as she entered the semi-finals of the world championships for the second consecutive time. No Indian female wrestler has won two consecutive medals at the world championship – but her semi-finals defeat denied her this piece of history and ended up finishing 5th in 59kg non-olympic category. She won a gold @ Dan Kolov international but her defeat to Sarita More in the trials for the world championships was the lowest point for Dhanda.
3) Komal Panchal – One can take a look at the finals of the cadet world championships where Komal defeated wrestler from America in the very last second in Sofia, Bulgaria to gauge the potential and never say die spirit of this 15 year old girl. Komal won the cadet world championships and also hearts with her performance.
4) Pooja Gehlot – The wrestler from Lampur village, Delhi became talk of the wrestling circles as she entered the U23 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. She lost the finals to Japanese great Haruna Okuno and ended up with silver medal for the country. Gehlot will now attempt to qualify for Tokyo 2020 by moving down to 50kg category.
Vote for these Super-Girls and tell us who according to you is the FEMALE WRESTLER OF THE YEAR. Log on www.wrestlingTV.in and cast your vote.
