Ace wrestler Vinesh Phogat is set to be recommended by the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) for India’s highest sporting honour the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award. This will be the second consecutive time that the 25-year-old would…
Amidst uncertainty over the resumption of national camps, the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) has contacted Sports Authority of India (SAI) asking for an extension of contracts for coaches until coronavirus-deferred Tokyo Olympics. The national and foreign coaches…
United World Wrestling, with the support of the Chinese Wrestling Federation, Taishan and Mr. ZHOU Jinqiang, has successfully delivered medical masks to several nations currently battling the COVID-19 pandemic. The Chinese Wrestling Federation, Taishan and Mr. Zhou reached…
Bulgarian Wrestling Federation offers an online United World Wrestling (UWW) coaching course. The wrestling body wrote addressed a letter to all the coaches and said due to the Coronavirus situation, they will be conduction an online UWW coaching…
Dagestan Wrestling Federation President Sazhid Sajidov has welcomed the Tokyo Olympics postponement to 2021. He said that moving the competition was the right thing to do considering the current situation. “At present, maintaining the health of the people…
The Pakistan Wrestling Federation, with the support of Olympic Solidarity and the National Olympic Committee of Pakistan, hosted a national course for referees and coaches. This was the second national course by high performance coach Farid GHULAM and referee Riaz…
After International Olympic Committee announced the postponement of Tokyo Games to 2021, the Turkey Wrestling Federation talked about their way forward. Musa Aydin, President of Turkey Wrestling Federation, said they welcome IOC’s decision. He added that the rescheduling…
The entire world, especially Europe is grappling very hard with the menace of Covid19. In the middle of scare and gloom everywhere, the hosts of the European Olympic Qualifiers, the Hungarian Wrestling Federation decided to organize flashmob to…
The wrestling world was eagerly waiting for the new dates of the Asian Olympic Qualifiers and the update about the postponed event has come from a unexpected quarter. Though the world governing body of the sport, United World…
The Japan Wrestling Federation announced Wednesday it has suspended six officials who oversaw matches at last year’s national championships in which two competitors scored takedowns after illegally treading on opponents’ feet. The three-month suspensions, effective from this month,…