Wrestling News

Cadet World Championship: Tannu is the third Indian to emerge world champion at this event.

Tokyo Olympics: Wrestler Vinesh Phogat tweeted Thursday and reiterated her request for allowing a physiotherapist to travel with the women's team to Tokyo.

Vinesh Phogat suffered heartache at Rio in 2016 when she was carried off the mat on a stretcher with a career-threatening knee injury in the quarter-finals.

Tokyo Olympics: Arjuna and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award winner, wrestler Vinesh Phogat will be aiming to win her first Olympic medal as she enters the final stages after a successful 2021 season so far.

Tokyo Olympics: Indian wrestling contingent will field seven wrestlers, headlined by medal contenders Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat.

Tokyo Olympics: India's Vinesh Phogat believes she has grown mentally stronger and technically accomplished as she resumes her bid for an Olympic gold in Tokyo.

Indian wrestlers have been highly impressive at the global level in run up to the Tokyo Olympics and at least three of them will be genuine medal contenders at the Games.

Tokyo Olympics: If a wrestler contract COVID ahead of his final match then the losing semi-finalist will get a shot at gold medal says International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Tokyo Olympics: India's top hope for the Olympic medal in Tokyo, Bajrang Punia, is seeded second in the 65kg weight category by UWW behind the top-seeded Russian Gadzhimurad Rashidov.

Indian wrestler Sumit Malik has decided to challenge the two-year ban imposed on him by the sport's world body for failing a dope test and seek a lesser punishment so that he can compete in next year's Commonwealth Games and defend his title.

Indian wrestler Sumit Malik was on Friday banned by United World Wrestling, the sport's governing body, for two years after he failed a dope test, said a report.

India is sending a talented bunch of wrestlers to Tokyo and World No. 1 Bajrang Punia is one of the brightest medal contenders at the upcoming Olympic Games

Bajrang injured his right knee on Friday evening while competing in the semi-finals of the Russian tournament -- Ali Aliyev

India's star wrestler Bajrang Punia on Friday suffered a right knee injury while competing in a local Russian tournament, less than a month before the start of Tokyo Olympics.

Star Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat proved that her preparations for the Tokyo Games were on track by winning the 53kg gold at the Poland Open on Friday

The Sports Authority of India (SAI) sacked Temo Kazarashvili because none of the Greco Roman wrestlers could qualify for the Tokyo Games.

Olympic Bound Indian Wrestler has himself out of the Poland Open after catching fever and as a precautionary measure, she gets herself tested for COVID-19.

Tokyo Olympics-bound Indian wrestler Ravi Dahiya lost to Gulomjon Abdullaev in the 61kg final at Poland Open.