Kripa Shankar will spearhead India’s challenge at the UWW Veterans World Wrestling Championships 2019. Shankar will contest both Greco Roman and freestyle competitions in the 70kg category.
India is fielding a 17-member squad for the Masters event, scheduled from October 8 to 13 at Georgia, Tbilisi.
After the grand success of its launch event UWW World Wrestling Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, www.wrestlingtv.in is all set to stream the Veterans World Championship LIVE and EXCLUSIVE in the Indian Sub-Continent.
WrestlingTV’s parent company Sporty Solutionz is UWW’s EXCLUSIVE media rights and broadcast partner for the Indian Sub-Continent.
The squad: Ranvir Singh (62kg, FS); Rattan Kumar (62 kg, FS); Jagbir Sing (70 kg, FS); Sagar Singh Pathania (7 kg, FS); Kripa Shankar Patel (70 kg, FS/GR); Surender Kumar (78 kg, FS); Ashu Vishal (78 kg, FS); Sanjeev Kumar (78 kg, FS); Deva Nand (78 kg, FS/GR); Gagandeep Singh (78 kg, FS); Mohender Singh (78 kg, FS); Ajay Vaishnav (78 kg, FS); Jagdish Kumar (88 kg, FS); Sanjay Kumar (88 kg, GR); Subhash Chander (100kg, FS); Randhir Singh (100 kg, FS/GR); and Dheeraj Kumar (100 kg, GR).
The support staff includes referee course applicants Ravinder Kumar and Karan Sharma; manager Chander Mohan Sharma; coaches Arpit Kumar Visnoi and Vinay Prajapati; and referee Sunny Babu.
Fans can catch all the action LIVE and EXCLUSIVE from Georgia on www.wrestlingtv.in.
The broadcast schedule and other details will be released later.