Wrestling News

The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) has sent as many as five applications for Arjuna and four each for Dronacharya and Dhyanchand awards.

Vinesh Phogat is set to be nominated for Khel Ratna for the second year in a row while Rio Olympic bronze winner Sakshi Malik wants to be in contention for the Arjuna award, although she is already a recipient of country's highest sporting honour.

Hana Kimura was a current cast member of Netflix's internationally popular "Terrace House: Tokyo 2019-2020".

Shad Gaspard starred in the crowd-pleasing WWE, making up half of the tag team Cryme Time with his partner JTG.

Wrestling coaches Andrew Cook and Temo Kazarashvili left India with half of their monthly salary for March.

Sushil Kumar allayed any retirement talks and said the Olympics getting delayed by a year only gives him more time to prepare.

Going by the latest world rankings, Bajrang Punia is assured of a top-four seeding in the 65kg category at next year's Tokyo Olympics even if he skips the last ranking series tournament.

Star wrestler Vinesh Phogat was "deeply disappointed" when she learned of the postponement.

Star wrestler Bajrang Punia on Monday decided to donate his six months salary towards fight against COVID-19 pandemic and called for postponement of Tokyo Olympics.

Sonam Mailk downed Sakshi Malik for the second time in a row, this time by pinning the Olympic medallist, to make it to the Indian team for next month's Olympic Qualifiers.

India ended third on the standings at the 2020 Asian Wrestling Championship with Jitender Kumar's silver being their sixth in the tournament.

After winning his qualification bout rather easily, Jitender Kumar just about managed to win his following bouts, while Deepak Punia and Rahul Aware lost and will fight for bronze.

Apart from Bajrang Punia (65kg), Gourav Baliyan (79kg) and Satyawart Kadiyan (97kg) also had to be content with silver medals.

Bajrang Punia's improved leg defence was on display as he reached the gold medal match along with three more Indians, including Ravi Dahiya.

Bronze medallist at the 2016 Rio Olympics, Sakshi Malik was the only Indian to get through to the title round on Friday before losing a closely fought 65kg final to Naomi Ruike of Japan.

India dominated the opening day of women's competition at the Asian Wrestling Championship on Thursday.

Divya Kakran became only the second Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Asian Wrestling Championships.

While Ashu won a bronze in 67kg category, Aditya Kundu and Hardeep also bagged the medals of same colour in the 72kg and 97kg respectively on the second day of the competitions.