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The wrestling qualifiers for the upcoming Asian Championships and Olympic trials are set to happen on March 10 and 11 in Sonipat and Patiala.
The advert-hoc committee operating the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) will go forward with its trials to decide the groups for the upcoming qualifiers of the Asian Championships and Olympic Games on March 10 and 11 in Sonipat and Patiala.
The trials shall be held at SAI Sonipat for male grapplers (freestyle and greco roman), and at NIS Patiala for girls wrestlers.
Trials shall be held throughout all 30 weight classes.
The Olympic weight class’s winner will characterize India on the Asian Olympic Qualifiers (April 19-21) and World Olympic Qualifiers (May 9-12), the Bhupender Singh Bajwa-led advert-hoc committee stated in an announcement on Thursday.
“Due to the close proximity of the Asian Wrestling Championships (April 11-16) and Asian Olympic Qualifiers, the runners-up in Olympic weight categories will represent India at the Asian Championships,” it stated within the launch.
Additionally, winners in non-Olympic weight classes will characterize India on the Asian Championships.
Antim (53kg) will obtain a direct entry to take part within the 2024 Asian Championships. Once wrestlers safe a quota both on the Asian Olympic Qualifier or World Olympic Qualifier, the quota winner will face a challenger on June 5.
To decide the challenger, a trial shall be held on May 31, the place solely the highest 4 wrestlers in 53kg and the highest three wrestlers in different classes (the place India has received a quota) rising from the trials on March 10-11 will compete.
These challengers will play within the Nordic format and the winner of it will get to wrestle towards the quota winner to decide who will characterize the nation on the Paris Olympics.
Earlier on Thursday, the WFI, which has been positioned below suspension by the Centre, advised the Delhi High Court it’s going to withdraw its round on conducting choice trials for the Senior Asian Wrestling Championships 2024 and Asian Olympic Games Qualifier Wrestling Tournament.
Taking observe of the assertion made by WFI’s counsel, Justice Sachin Datta stated the trials shall proceed as per the round issued by the advert-hoc committee supervising the affairs of the nationwide federation.
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