Arjuna Award: Ravi Dahiya, Deepak Punia nominated together with Anshu, Sarita

The Wrestling Federation of India has nominated Olympic-bound and World Championship medal-winning wrestlers Ravi Dahiya and Deepak Punia for the Arjuna award together with fast-rising Anshu Malik.
Deepak had received a silver medal on the 2019 World Championship in Nur Sultan whereas Ravi had bagged a bronze together with a ticket to Tokyo.
Dahiya has emerged as a powerful medal contender within the 57kg class on the Games, the place he’s seeded fourth.
He had just lately defended his Asian title in Almaty earlier than profitable a silver medal on the Poland Open.
The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) additionally nominated the 19-year-old Malik, who has received 5 medals in six tournaments together with the Asian title since beginning her stint within the senior circuit final 12 months.
Sarita Mor, who missed out on Olympic qualification however received the Asian title in 59kg in Almaty, has additionally been nominated for the Arjuna.
“All four wrestlers have done well and deserve recognition, so we have sent their application,” WFI Assistant Secretary Vinod Tomar advised PTI.
“We have additionally nominated coaches Vikram, Kuldeep Malik and Sujeet Maan for the Dronacharya award.
It could also be famous that nationwide ladies’s coach Kuldeep Malik is already a recipient of Dhyanchand award, so his utility will not be thought of for Dronacharya.
Sujeet had received 4 Asian medals in his wrestling profession earlier than he joined Railways as a coach.
He was additionally related to the Indian males’s freestyle staff as nationwide coach between 2011 to 2019.
In the life-time achievement class (Dronacharya), the WFI has nominated Jagroop Rathi, R Okay Hooda and R S Kundu.
Hooda is secretary of Haryana wrestling affiliation.
For the Dhyanchand award, WFI has despatched names of Sajjan Singh, Jai Prakash and Dushyant Sharma.
The 89-year-old Sajjan Singh had competed within the 1960 Rome Olympics.