Wrestling World Championships: Aman Sehrawat, Sumit Malik among 10 freestyle wrestlers picked in trials
Two Asian Games bound wrestlers, Asian champion Aman Sehrawat (57kg) and Sumit Malik (125kg), made it to the Indian freestyle squad for the World championships to be held in Belgrade next month.
Altogether 10 men’s freestyle wrestlers were picked in the selection trials conducted at Patiala on Saturday.
Aman defeated Atish Todkar in the final to make it double joy for him this year.
Besides Aman, Akash Dahiya will be representing India in the 61kg after getting the better of Neeraj, while Anuj Kumar will be seen in action in the 65kg category, where Olympic medallist Bajrang Punia ply his trade.
Worlds and Olympics medallist Bajrang Punia (65kg) and former Worlds silver medallist Deepak Punia (86kg), who are part of the Asian Games squad, chose to go on foreign training instead of participating in the trials for the Worlds.
In Deepak’s absence, Sandeep Singh got the better of Jonty Kumar to win the 86kg trial.
Elsewhere, Abhimanyu beat Mulayam Yadav to seal the world championships place in the 70kg, while Naveen defeated Sagar Jaglan to win the 74kg trials.
In the 79kg men’s freestyle, Sachin More defeated Rohit Guliya to seal his ticket to Budapest.
Pruthviraj Patil won the 92kg category beating Gourav Baliyan, while Sahil clinched the 97kg spot defeating Vicky. Sumit Malik beat Akash Antil to win the 125kg freestyle spot.
The two-day trials ended on Saturday.
The squad:
Freestyle: Aman Sehrawat (57kg), Akash Dahiya (61kg), Anuj Kumar (65kg), Abhimanyou (70kg), Naveen (74kg), Sachin More (79kg), Sandeep Singh (86kg), Pruthviraj Patil (92kg), Sahil (97kg), Sumit Malik (125kg)
– With inputs from PTI