The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) has named more than 100 senior wrestlers for the national camp starting from today in Sonepat for Men and in Lucknow for the women wrestlers. WFI has decided that this will be the core group of wrestlers from which Indian teams for the forthcoming Asian Wrestling Championships in Delhi, Asian Olympic Qualifiers in China and finally squad for Tokyo 2020 will be finalized. The list of the national campers released by WFI includes all the four wrestlers who have already grabbed the Tokyo 2020 quota place i.e Vinesh Phogat (53kg), Bajrang Punia (65kg), Ravi Dhaiya (57kg) & Deepak Punia (86kg).

According to the WFI Office Secretary, Vinod Tomar it will be mandatory for all the selected wrestlers to attend the national camp.

“WFI has included all Jalandhar Senior National Championship medallists, prominent squad members of the U23 world championships and all the senior Indian team players who could not play in the senior nationals due to an injury or any another valid reason are included in the camp list. We are making it mandatory for this core group to attend the national camp” said Tomar.

The camp list includes 4 to 5 wrestlers in each weight category and includes the likes of Senior world championship medallist Rahul Aware (61kg), U23 World medallist Pooja Gehlot and 2018 world bronze winner Pooja Dhanda. The trio could not participate in the senior nationals due to injuries.

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Sushil Kumar missing from the list

Double Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar is once again missing from the national campers list released by WFI. Sushil last played for India at the World Championships in Nur-Sultan in the month of September and since than he has missed international and national events. It is not clear whether Sushil was considered for the national camp or not. Sushil normally tends to train on his own and it has been few years since he last attended the national camp.

Trials in first week of January 2020

As reported earlier, the WFI will conduct the trials to select the Indian squad for the Asian Olympic Qualifiers scheduled for March 2020 in the first week of January. India has already booked quota places in 3 Men’s freestyle categories (57kg, 65kg & 86kg) and 1 quota place in the women freestyle in 53kg courtesy Vinesh Phogat.

This means quota places for 3 categories in Men’s Freestyle (74kg, 97kg, 125kg), 5 in women FS (50kg, 57kg, 62kg, 68kg, 76kg) and in all 6 weight categories of Greco-Roman are still up for grab. Indian wrestlers will have two chances to book quota places in these remaining categories, the first one at the Asian Olympic qualifiers in China in March and the World Olympic Qualifiers in Sofia, Bulgaria in April.

The national body through these trials in January will select the Indian squads for the Olympic Qualifier tournaments and the Asian Wrestling Championships in New-Delhi.

WFI has only exempted marquee wrestler Bajrang Punia from the Asian Championship trials. WrestlingTV has reliably learnt that Deepak Punia (86kg) and Ravi Dhaiya (57kg) & even Vinesh Phogat will have to appear for trials in order to make it to the Indian squad for the Asian Championships. The performance in the trials is unlikely to effect their already booked tickets for Tokyo 2020.

List of the Senior Free style Wrestlers for participation the National Coaching Camp to be held at SAI Northern Training Center Sonepat from 20^th December 2019 to 31^st March 2020

57 Kg.			61 Kg.
S.No.	Name	Unit	S.No.	Name	Unit
1.	RAHUL	DEL	1.	RAVINDER	SSCB
2.	ABASAHEB	MAH	2.	SONABA TANAJI	SSCB
3.	PANKAJ	SSCB	3.	PAWAN	HAR
4.	KULDEEP	HAR	4.	SURAJ	MAH
5.	RAVI KUMAR	RSPB	5.	RAHUL AWARE	RSPB
65 Kg.			70 Kg.
S.No.	Name	Unit	S.No.	Name	Unit
1.	AMIT KUMAR	JHA	1.	NAVEEN	JHA
2.	RAHUL	HAR	2.	VISHAL	HAR
3.	SUNNY	DEL	3.	NAVEEN	SSCB
4.	ROHIT	HAR	4.	KARAN	SSCB
5.	BAJRANG	RSPB	5.	RAJNEESH	SSCB
74 Kg.			79 Kg.
S.No.	Name	Unit	S.No.	Name	Unit
1.	GOURAV BALIYAN	UP	1.	SANDEEP	PUB
2.	PARVEEN RANA	RSPB	2.	JITENDER	RSPB
3.	AMIT DHANKAR	HAR	3.	VIRDEV GULIYA	SSCB
4.	ARJUN YADAV	RSPB	4.	RAHUL RATHI	HAR
5.	VINOD KUMAR	SSCB
86 Kg.			92 Kg.
S.No.	Name	Unit	S.No.	Name	Unit
1.	PAWAN KUMAR	RSPB	1.	MONU	SSCB
2.	DEEPAK	RSPB	2.	SUNIL KUMAR	HAR
3.	PARVEEN CHAHAR	DEL	3.	SOMBEER	HAR
4.	SANJEET	JHA	4.	SANGRAM	MAH
5.	DEEPAK PUNIA	SSCB

97 Kg.			125 Kg.
S.No.	Name	Unit	S.No.	Name	Unit
1.	SATYAWART KADIAN	RSPB	1.	SUMIT	RSPB
2.	KAPIL	UP	2.	ABHIJIT	MAH
3.	AKASH	DEL	3.	SATINDER	SSCB
4.	SOMVEER	SSCB	4.	KRISHAN KUMAR	CHD
5.	MAUSAM KHATRI	HAR

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