Asian Wrestling Championships – Vinesh Phogat, Anshu Malik to fight for Gold: With no Chinese, no Japanese, no North Koreans in fray – Indian wrestling queen Vinesh Phogat is targeting nothing less than Gold at the ongoing Asian Wrestling Championships. In…
All 12 women wrestlers who had assembled at SAI centre in Lucknow, including Olympic qualifier Vinesh Phogat, have tested negative for coronavirus, clearing the decks for the resumption of training from Monday. Olympic medallist Sakshi Malik (62kg), Seema…
Indian wrestler Sonam Malik on Thursday “thanked God” after the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) decided to postpone the women’s national camp in Lucknow owing to the coronavirus pandemic, after Vinesh Phogat pulled out unilaterally due to the…
Wrestling News: Doing training of different sports is a common sight in cricket and football but never was the method used in a sport like wrestling until now. Sonam Malik, twin cadet world champion and currently the top-ranked…
Star wrestler Vinesh Phogat was on Tuesday put in contention for ‘Khel Ratna’ while World Championship medallists Rahul Aware and Olympic-bound Deepak Punia were nominated for the Arjuna award alongside Sakshi Malik and two others by the national…
Sakshi Malik has missed out on her last opportunity of being in contention for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics berth. An era of domination came to an end as the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games medallist failed to earn…
The trials for 62kg and 76kg women’s wrestling are being conducted today at SAI Centre, Lucknow for India’s entry in the next month’s Asian Olympic Qualifiers. Sakshi, Sarita, Mansi and Sonam entered the semi-finals. Pooja Dhanda and Navjot…
Disappointment arose for India after a positive start. After Vinesh Phogat’s quarterfinal exit, Anshu, Sonam and Sakshi also lose their respective bouts. After securing a win in quarterfinals, Sonam could not manage to go past her Japanese opponent…
Olympic Bronze medallist Sakshi Malik is hopeful of getting another opportunity to contest for a berth for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. “I am hopeful for another round of trials. If I qualify in that I will have…
Anshu from India has won her opening round bout on the Day 2 of the UWW Ranking Series event in Rome. In the opening encounter of 57kg Anshu defeated Maria Victoria Dilone of Spain 10-0. The Indian champ…