India ended their marketing campaign on the World Olympic Wrestling Qualifiers with two Paris Olympics 2024 quotas, gained by wrestlers Aman Sehrawat and Nisha Dahiya in males’s and girls’s wrestling every. Nisha and Aman took the variety of quotas by Indian wrestlers to 6. This Istanbul meet was the ultimate likelihood for India to get Paris 2024 quotas for wrestling, as per Olympics.com.
On the ultimate day of the occasion on Sunday, Sujeet Kalkal and Jaideep Ahlawat registered losses of their bronze medal bouts. Sujeet, competing within the 65 kg class, secured the semifinal spot however misplaced to Asian Games champion Tomor-Ochiryn Tulga of Mongolia. On Sunday, he was crushed by USA’s Zain Retherford by way of standards when scores had been stage on 2-2.
Both the finalists in every division have secured the 2024 Paris Olympics quotas for his or her nations. The third quota went to the victor of a playoff match between bronze medalists of a specific weight class. Bajrang Punia, who secured the bronze medal within the males’s 65kg on the Tokyo Olympics again in 2021, was not part of the Indian wrestling workforce for the qualifiers.
Jaideep Ahlawat, who made it to the repechage rounds of the 74kg after a loss within the quarter-final, suffered a slender 2-1 defeat within the bronze medal bout towards Turkiye’s Soner Demirtas. He had beforehand beat Turkmenistan’s Arslan Amanmyradov 11-0 in the course of the repechage spherical. A complete of 14 Indian wrestlers performed within the qualifiers from May 9 to 12.
Aman, secured the 57 kg Olympics 2024 quota, marking India’s first quota within the males’s freestyle class for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Ravi Kumar Dahiya, a silver medalist within the 57 kg class within the Tokyo Olympics, additionally did not make it to the Indian workforce for the qualifiers. Deepak Punia, who secured a fifth-place end within the 2020 Olympics, couldn’t win a quota for his nation.
Nisha obtained the second quota for India at this occasion within the ladies’s 68 kg class, making it the fifth Paris 2024 quota by an Indian ladies’s wrestler. Antim Panghal (53kg) bagged India’s first quota in the course of the 2023 World Wrestling Championships whereas Vinesh Phogat (50kg), Anshu Malik (57kg) and Reetika Hooda (76kg) added to the quotas in the course of the Asian Qualifiers held in Bishkek final month.
India, in the meantime, couldn’t safe a quota in Greco-Roman wrestling. Sunil Kumar, who bagged a bronze medal on the Asian Games final yr, was knocked out in the course of the repechage spherical of the boys’s 87kg division.
