Performance of Indian Men’s freestyle team was the highest point for Indian wrestling at the just concluded 2019 UWW world wrestling championships. Indian Men team performed brilliantly to win 1 silver and 3 bronze medals in the championships.

This has resulted in India qualifying for the October 2020 team World Cup.

Only top 8 nations in the team ranking qualifies for the world cup. India finished the world championship at 6th position with overall 79 points, hence qualifying for the world cup 2020.

Men’s Freestyle Team Ranking – 2019 World Championships

1. Russia – 190

2. Kazakhstan 103

3. United States 94

4. Iran – 93

5. Georgia 85

6. India – 79

7. Azerbaizan – 50

8. Uzbekistan – 49

9. Turkey – 48

10. Japan – 34

The significance of the achievement can be gauged from the fact that wrestling superpowers in the Asian continent like Japan, China, Korea failed to make it to the top 8 of the world championship rankings and India finished ahead of them. Russia finished at the top of the ranking charts with 190 points courtesy 5 Gold medals at the world championships.

India’s medal winners at 2019 world wrestling championship (Men’s Freestyle)

– Bajrang Punia claimed the bronze medal in the 65kg category,

– Ravi Kumar also won bronze in the 57kg category.

– Deepak’s silver medal is the best result an Indian wrestler has achieved at this year’s World Championships.

– Rahul Aware won a bronze at 61kg weight category

Men Freestyle – Team Ranking

2018 Budapest – India finished at 11th place with 40 points

2019 Nur-Sultan – India finished at 6th place with 79 points

History of the World Cup

The Team World Cup was started by the world body in 1973 and since than India has qualified 4 times for the world cup in 2014, 2016, 2017 & 2018. In 2019 India failed to qualify for the world cup won by Russia. India’s best finish in the world cup was 6th in 2014. In both 2017 & 2018 they finished last at the team world cup.

slide_template: default
rt_custom_css: .scheme_default h3 { font-size: 20px ; } .sidebar_inner{ display:none; } .insert-page-title{ display:none; }
eg_sources_html5_mp4:
eg_sources_html5_ogv:
eg_sources_html5_webm:
eg_sources_youtube:
eg_sources_vimeo:
eg_sources_wistia:
eg_sources_image:
eg_sources_iframe:
eg_sources_soundcloud:
eg_vimeo_ratio: 1
eg_youtube_ratio: 1
eg_wistia_ratio: 1
eg_html5_ratio: 1
eg_soundcloud_ratio: 1
eg_sources_revslider:
eg_sources_essgrid:
eg_featured_grid:
eg_settings_custom_meta_skin:
eg_settings_custom_meta_element:
eg_settings_custom_meta_setting:
eg_settings_custom_meta_style:
eg_custom_meta_216: true
eg_votes_count: 0
tiger_claw_options: a:1:{s:12:"header_style";s:17:"header-custom-655";}
trx_addons_post_views_count: 307
trx_addons_post_likes_count: 0