The global sporting fraternity is gearing up for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Every athlete dreams to be part of the Olympic 2020 bandwagon. The cream of the wrestling world has already booked their licenses for Tokyo at the World Championships 2019 in Nur-Sultan. The top 6 finishers at the world championship in each Olympic category has already qualified for the Olympics 2020. 4 Indian wrestlers have already booked their quota places for the Tokyo 2020, the remaining still have 2 more chances.
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Details of the UWW Tokyo 2020 Olympic Qualification process
The United World Wrestling has scheduled two more qualifier tournaments for the
Tokyo 2020, one the Continental Qualifier in the month of March & then the last opportunity the World Qualifiers in April 2020. UWW has decided to limit 16 wrestlers per weight category at the
Olympics. The total number of Olympic categories have also been reduced to 6 each for Greco-Roman, Freestyle Men & FS Women. Once the country secures a quota in the respective category, they will not be allowed to participate in the subsequent qualifying tournaments in that particular category.
Following categories will be played out in Tokyo 2020 –
| Men |
| Freestyle |
Greco-Roman |
| 57 kg |
60 kg |
| 65 kg |
67 kg |
| 74 kg |
77 kg |
| 86 kg |
87 kg |
| 97 kg |
97 kg |
| 125 kg |
130 kg |
| Women |
| 50 kg |
62 kg |
| 53 kg |
68 kg |
| 57 kg |
76 kg |
India has already secured quota in Men FS – 57, 65 & 86kg categories / In Women, Vinesh Phogat has secured quota for India in the 53kg category. This means India will no more participate in the qualifying events in these categories.
UWW Tokyo 2020 Olympic Qualification process & tournaments
Total Quota places for each weight category – 16
World Championships – 2019 (Nur Sultan) — 6 Quota places for each Olympic category
Continental Qualifiers – 2020, March — Total 8 Quota places will be granted, 2 Quotas will be given in each of the 4 continental qualifiers
(Africa & Oceania, PanAmerica, European & Asian Qualifiers)
World OG Qualifier – 2020, April (Bulgaria) – Last 2 quota places will be granted to the top 2 finishers in the world qualifiers
How the rest of Indian wrestlers can qualify for the Tokyo 2020 ??
This means Indian wrestlers still have two chances to qualify for the
Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The first one in the Asian qualifier round in China (27th 29th March) and the last one in Bulgaria in the world qualifier slated for (30th Apr to 03rd May). In both the tournaments in order to qualify the wrestlers have to finish in the top 2 in their respective weight category to qualify for Tokyo 2020.
All the Qualifying events will be streamed LIVE & EXCLUSIVE on WrestlingTV.in
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March 2020
