Mar 12, 2025 10:46 PM IST
With WFI’s suspension lifted, the trials for choosing campers for internationals might be held on Saturday
New Delhi: A day after the union sports activities ministry revoked the suspension of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), it started to plan in direction of reviving the game which has been in turmoil for the final two years. Bringing out a full-fledged home calendar, resuming nationwide camps and sending groups for tournaments and publicity journeys are WFI’s prime priorities.
Paris Olympics medallist Aman Sehrawat is among the many wrestlers who will enter the Asian Wrestling Championships trials this week. (PTI)
WFI on Wednesday put aside the standards for participating in choice trials for the Asian Wrestling Championships, opening it for medallists of all main worldwide occasions. The trials might be held right here on Saturday.
Wrestlers of Railways Sports activities Promotion Board couldn’t take part within the senior nationals in Bengaluru this 12 months resulting from restrictions imposed as WFI was suspended. “We have got requests from our top wrestlers that they want to participate. Medallists of World Championships (Sr and Jr), Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, Paris Olympians – can come for the trials. The wrestlers have missed out on many competitions and we don’t want anyone to be left out,” a WFI official stated.
Paris Olympics medallist Aman Sehrawat is among the many RSPB wrestlers who will enter the trials. Olympians Deepak Punia, Antim Panghal and Reetika Hooda may also be there. It’s from these trials that WFI should choose the nationwide campers (4 in every weight class). The nationwide camps haven’t been held for nearly two years. The wrestlers have been making ready of their respective centres hoping that the deadlock ends. The 12 months began on a low because the Indian staff couldn’t take part in two rating sequence occasions in Croatia and Albania in February. In all, wrestlers have missed six tournaments and with the opportunity of their lacking the Asian and world meets, the sports activities ministry revoked its suspension.
“So many young wrestlers and their parents I know were thinking of quitting the sport. It was so bad. There was no domestic tournament, no national camps. We’ve suffered because camps were not held. I have been in camps from an early age and it has helped in my growth at the international level. We get a variety of partners and the facilities we get at akhadas cannot be matched. There is discipline and team bonding – all that helps you develop into a good wrestler,” she stated.
The final two stop-start seasons have seen solely a restricted variety of nationals held. In 2022, WFI held 18 home tournaments which included 5 Nationwide Championships (Senior, U15, U17, U20 and U23), moreover Federation Cups, Open Rating Nationwide and Grand Prix sequence tournaments. That quantity got here down to only 5 final season. In 2023, two separate senior nationals have been held, by WFI and IOA’s advert hoc committee. WFI stated it is very important restart the calendar from April in order that the wrestlers can put together for internationals on the age-group stage. The governance disaster has hit the rising expertise in a sport that has fetched India medals at each Olympics since 2008 Beijing.
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