New Delhi [India], August 5 (ANI): Olympic bronze medalist Aman Sehrawat and Antim Panghal would be the headliners of the Indian contingent for the World Wrestling Championships, which will likely be held from September 13 to 21 in Zagreb, Croatia.
The squad was chosen after choice trials. The trials for Greco-Roman and males’s freestyle trials have been held in Lucknow on Monday, whereas the ladies’s bouts happened in Delhi on Sunday, as per Olympics.com.
Aman, who final yr grew to become India’s youngest-ever particular person Olympic medalist on the age of 21 at Paris final yr, sealed his spot within the males’s 57 kg class, beating Rahul by technical superiority within the closing.
The 22-year-old Aman, who can also be a bronze medalist on the Asian Games and a former Asian champion, made his World Championships debut again in 2023, however his run led to pre-quarterfinals.
Since his Olympic medal, Aman has performed in simply two worldwide meets, profitable bronze within the Ulaanbaatar Open in June and clinched gold at Yasar Dogu final month.
On the opposite hand, Antim sealed her spot within the ladies’s 53 kg, with out lacking some extent all through all her trial bouts, proper from opener with Pooja and the ultimate towards Hinaben. After an underwhelming Paris 2024, Antim will likely be eyeing redemption, one thing significantly better to point out for than a first-round exit in the course of the marquee multi-sporting occasion.
Antim is slowly making a comeback, beginning off this yr with a bronze medal on the Asian Championships and adopted it up with gold medals on the Ulaanbatar Open and the Polyak Imre and Varga Janos Memorial.
Also, the present Asian champion Manisha Bhanwala secured the ladies’s 62 kg slot, beating Mansi Ahlawat 2-0 in a decent qualifying bout.
Deepak Punia, who was defeated within the Tokyo 2020 Olympic bronze medal conflict, grabbed the lads’s 92 kg spot with two huge victories. The males’s 65kg freestyle trials noticed Sujeet Kalkal triumph. He is the present U23 Asian champion and not too long ago clinched a gold on the Budapest Ranking Series.
Indian squad for World Wrestling Championships 2025
Women’s freestyle 50kg – AnkushWomen’s freestyle 53kg – Antim PanghalWomen’s freestyle 55kg – NishuWomen’s freestyle 57kg – TapasyaWomen’s freestyle 59kg – Neha SangwanWomen’s freestyle 62kg – Manisha BhanwalaWomen’s freestyle 65kg – Vaishnavi PatilWomen’s freestyle 68kg – SrishtiWomen’s freestyle 72kg – Jyoti BerwalWomen’s freestyle 76kg – Priya MalikMen’s freestyle 57kg – Aman SehrawatMales’s freestyle 61kg – Udit GuliaMen’s freestyle 65kg – Sujeet KalkalMales’s freestyle 70kg – RohitMen’s freestyle 74kg – Jaideep NarwalMen’s freestyle 79kg – AmitMen’s freestyle 86kg – Mukul DahiyaMen’s freestyle 92kg – Deepak PuniaMales’s freestyle 97kg – VickyMen’s freestyle 125kg – Rajat Greco-Roman 55kg – Anil MorGreco-Roman 60kg – SurajGreco-Roman 63kg – Sunny KumarGreco-Roman 67kg – AnilGreco-Roman 72kg – Ankit GuliaGreco-Roman 77kg – AmanGreco-Roman 82kg – RahulGreco-Roman 87kg – Karan KambojGreco-Roman 97kg – NiteshGreco-Roman 130kg – Sonu. (ANI)