New Delhi: After a niche of greater than two years the nationwide wrestling teaching camps began on Thursday, with the ladies’s camp being organised on the Indira Gandhi Sports activities Advanced right here. The lads’s Freestyle and Greco Roman nationwide camps are being held on the SAI NCOE centre in Lucknow.
Antim Panghal. (HT)
The nationwide camps had not been organised since prime wrestlers took to streets protesting in opposition to the then Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. WFI, subsequently, confronted an extended suspension, although recent elections have been held in December 2023. The suspension by the Sports activities Ministry was lastly revoked in March this 12 months.
The WFI had earlier proposed to carry the ladies’s camp in SAI Gandhinagar, and the lads’s camp at Military Sports activities Institute, Pune. Nonetheless, that would not occur attributable to numerous causes.
SAI has offered sanction for a 61-day camp, however it’s more likely to be prolonged until the phrase championships in September (13-21) in Croatia. A complete of 120 wrestlers — 40 every in girls’s, males’s freestyle and Greco roman kinds — have been chosen based mostly on the efficiency within the trials for the Asian Championships.
4 wrestlers every have been picked for every weight division based mostly on their efficiency in Asian Championships trials. The 4 wrestlers within the 57kg weight class are Chirag Chikkara, Rahul, Sumit and Vikash Vishnoi. Paris Olympics medallist Aman Sehrawat, who missed the trials and is presently coaching beneath TOPS in Russia, doesn’t determine within the campers listing. “He will be added to the camp when he returns from his overseas training at the end of May,” mentioned a WFI official.
In its pointers for nationwide camps issued on April 29, WFI has made it clear that solely campers shall be eligible to look for choice trials.
“Only wrestlers attending the coaching camp will be eligible for trials, unless given special permission by WFI, particularly if they have won medals in a recent competition. Past performance alone will not qualify a wrestler to be given such permission.”
The absence of nationwide camps has impacted coaching of wrestlers during the last two years as they educated largely of their respective coaching centres with restricted sparring companions out there. Elite wrestlers deliberate their particular person coaching abroad beneath the Goal Olympic Podium Scheme however among the many males’s wrestlers, solely Aman certified for Paris Olympics.
Final week, wrestling coaches in a gathering with TOPS CEO NS Johal mentioned that particular person coaching programmes of wrestlers beneath the scheme needs to be scrutinised and their opinions needs to be sought. Additionally they steered that as an alternative of 1 wrestler alone, three to 4 wrestlers needs to be included in such stints for higher end result.