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The Mission Olympic Cell (MOC) has approved leading wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Deepak Punia’s proposals to train abroad after getting their fitness certificates. Bajrang had given a proposal for a … Read More
UWW, the world governing body for wrestling, has suspended the WFI for not conducting its elections on time, a development which will not allow Indian grapplers to compete at the … Read More
The trials to select the Indian wrestling team for the upcoming World Championships will go ahead as scheduled on August 25-26 despite the world governing body of the sport (UWW) … Read More
Olympic bronze medallist Bajrang Punia on Thursday indicated he might withdraw from the Asian Games if all the panchayats that backed him during the protest at Jantar Mantar ask him … Read More
The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on Friday requested the UWW to “keep in abeyance” the WFI suspension, insisting that it was making efforts to resume the election process. The United … Read More
Antim Panghal once again confirmed her emergence as one of the top wrestlers in the country by winning the World Championships trials in Patiala on Friday, while Diyva Kakran and … Read More
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 … Read More
Outgoing WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, currently fighting sexual harassment charges levelled by women wrestlers, and celebrated grappler Vinesh Phogat on Saturday blamed each other for the national federation’s … Read More
Following the provisional suspension of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) owing to delayed elections preceded by wrestlers’ protests, the Indian athletes will compete under the United World Wrestling flag … Read More
All four Indian free-style wrestlers on show on the day one of the UWW World Championships won their opening-round bouts with 70kg grappler Abhimanyu upsetting world number 7 Ukraine’s Ihor … Read More
