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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 ad-hoc committee operating the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) will go forward with its trials to choose the groups for the upcoming qualifiers of the Asian Championships and Olympic Video games on March 10 and 11 in Sonipat and Patiala.
The trials will likely be held at SAI Sonipat for male grapplers (freestyle and greco roman), and at NIS Patiala for girls wrestlers.
Trials will likely be held throughout all 30 weight classes.
The Olympic weight class’s winner will signify India on the Asian Olympic Qualifiers (April 19-21) and World Olympic Qualifiers (Could 9-12), the Bhupender Singh Bajwa-led ad-hoc committee mentioned in a press release on Thursday.
“As a result of shut proximity of the Asian Wrestling Championships (April 11-16) and Asian Olympic Qualifiers, the runners-up in Olympic weight classes will signify India on the Asian Championships,” it mentioned within the launch.
Moreover, winners in non-Olympic weight classes will signify India on the Asian Championships.
Antim (53kg) will obtain a direct entry to take part within the 2024 Asian Championships. As soon as 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 find out the challenger, a trial will likely be held on Could 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 find out who will signify the nation on the Paris Olympics.
Earlier on Thursday, the WFI, which has been positioned below suspension by the Centre, advised the Delhi Excessive Courtroom it would withdraw its round on conducting choice trials for the Senior Asian Wrestling Championships 2024 and Asian Olympic Video games Qualifier Wrestling Event.
Paying attention to the assertion made by WFI’s counsel, Justice Sachin Datta mentioned the trials shall proceed as per the round issued by the ad-hoc committee supervising the affairs of the nationwide federation.
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