The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) is not leaving any stone unturned as far as the preparations for their wrestlers for Tokyo 2020 is concerned. Now the national body of wrestling has decided to appoint top class foreign coaching hand for the Indian wrestling’s new found hopes Deepak Punia & Ravi Dhaiya. According to the press release by the national body, Murad Gaidarov, Olympic Silver medallist from Belarus has been appointed as coach for India’s new wrestling sensations Punia & Dhaiya.
Deepak and Ravi have both qualified for the Tokyo Olympics 2020 after stupendous show at the World Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. Deepak created history by entering the world championship finals in the 86kg weight category on his debut attempt. Ravi, who also was playing his first senior world championships impressed everyone by winning bronze medal at the world championships. Indian wrestling’s wonder boys will now prepare for the Olympics under the watchful guidance of champion coach Murad Gaidarov.
WFI aided by support from their principal sponsors Tata Motors & commercial partners Sporty Solutionz has is going all out to provide the best of preparatory facilities to their wrestlers so that they can perform at the global level events. This support led India to win record number of 5 medals at the recently concluded world championships in Nur-Sultan. Not only this 4 of these medals led to India booking 4 Olympic quota licenses.
Meanwhile, Gaidarov will join the assignment next week. The Belarusian has Olympic and World Championship medals to his credit. Gaidarov has won Silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
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