The choice trials for selecting the Indian wrestling crew for the upcoming Olympic Qualifiers and Asian Championships can be held on March 10-11 in Patiala and Sonipat respectively, the ad-hoc committee managing the game mentioned on Friday. The trials had been initially deliberate for February 27-29 however bought postponed after a delay in internet hosting the senior nationwide championships attributable to ”unavoidable circumstances”. The trials for ladies wrestlers can be held at NSNIS Patiala, whereas the trials for greco roman and freestyle grapplers can be held at SAI Sonipat.
”The ad-hoc committee can be organizing the choice trials for choosing the Indian wrestling crew for the upcoming Olympic Qualifiers & Asian Championships on March 10-11, 2024,” the ad-hoc committee, headed by Bhupender Singh Bhajwa, mentioned in an announcement.
”Earlier the trials had been introduced to be held on 27-29 February 2024. Nevertheless, due to a delay in organizing the 2023 Senior Nationwide Championships attributable to unavoidable circumstances, the trials are being postponed,” the panel added.
The winner of the trials within the Olympic weight class will get to signify India within the upcoming Olympic qualifiers — the Asian Olympic Qualifiers (April 19-21) and World Olympic Qualifiers (Might 9-12).
Whereas the winner in non-Olympic weight classes will signify India in Senior Asian Championships (April 11-16), the runners-up in Olympic weight classes on the trials will signify India on the Senior Asian Championships.
Antim (53kg) can be given direct entry to play on the 2024 Senior Asian Championships. India has to date secured Olympic quota in 53kg girls’s wrestling class by advantage of Antim’s bronze medal on the 2023 Senior World championships.
Indian wrestlers can nonetheless seize 17 quotas (5 in girls wrestling, 6 in greco roman and 6 in freestyle).
The ad-hoc committee was fashioned by the Indian Olympic Affiliation (IOA) after the Sports activities Ministry suspended the Sanjay Singh-led Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) for violating its personal structure quickly after the physique’s victory within the elections final December.
Sanjay Singh is a detailed affiliate of former WFI president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who was accused of sexual harassment by the well-known wrestling trio of Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia.
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