The sixth edition of the World Wrestling Clubs Cup will start from today with the Greco-Roman competitions scheduled for the opening day in Bojnourd, Iran. Indian Greco-Roman team has been drawn in Group A along with the Azerbaijan and champion club team from Iran – Big Market.

The Group B has team from Armenia and two club teams from host Iran.

The opening day of the competition will witness league matches in the Greco-Roman category. The finals of the Greco-Roman will be played on the second day along with the prelims of the freestyle competitions.

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World Wrestling Clubs Cup is an international wrestling clubs competition among teams representing member nations of the United World Wrestling (UWW), the global governing body for the sport of wrestling. Other than India, teams from China, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia and Ukraine will participate in the event along with the local Premier League club teams from host Iran. Each Premier League club team from Iran is allowed to recruit 3 foreigners.

Unlike the previous editions, India this time will participate in both freestyle and the greco-roman category in this team competition. Indian freestyle squad includes national champions Gaurav Baliyan (74kg) & Sandeep Singh Mann (79kg). In the greco-roman category prominent names like Arjun Halakurki (55kg), Gurpreet Singh (77kg) have been included in the squad.

It will be the first time that the Indian Greco-Roman team will participate in the World Wrestling Clubs Cup. Indian freestyle squad has been participating in the tournament since last two years and finished at seventh position in 2018 edition of the tournament. Bimeh Razi club of Iran won the World Wrestling Clubs champion trophy in 2018. The club will once again be the favorite as it has biggest of the wrestling names of Iran in their line-up.

Greco- Roman	Position
Arjun Halakurki	55 Kg.
Manish	60 Kg.
Vikram Krushnath Kurade	63 Kg
Ravinder	67 Kg
Gurpreet Singh	77 Kg
Sunil Kumar	87 Kg

Freestyle	Position
Suraj	61 Kg
Ravinder	65 Kg
Naveen	70 Kg
Gaurav Baliyan	74 Kg
Sandeep Singh Mann	79 Kg
Abhijeet Chandrakant Katake	125 Kg

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