CWG 2022: Ravi Dahiya, Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malik in focus as India eye a number of wrestling medals

There’s an enormous probability for India to win a number of medals in wrestling within the Commonwealth Games 2022! Last yr, Bajrang Punia and Ravi Dahiya made the nation proud by ending on the rostrum within the Tokyo Olympics.

Wrestling has at all times been a sport the place India have received a number of medals throughout numerous tournaments. It’s not anticipated to be any totally different this time round, barring any unexpected circumstances.

While Punia and Dahiya can be trying to stick with it from the place they left off in Tokyo, the remaining 9 wrestlers aren’t pushovers by any stretch of the creativeness.

Vinesh Phogat goes by a tough patch, particularly after her quarterfinal defeat in Tokyo the place she went right down to Belarus’s Vanesa Kaladzinskaya.

Phogat had revealed that she was in unhealthy psychological and bodily form. After the loss, Phogat talked about that folks thought-about her a “dead thing”.

However, because the CWG is worried, the 27-year-old is certainly one of India’s largest hopes for a podium end. She has received gold medals within the earlier editions of the CWG and is eyeing her third. She additionally grew to become the primary Indian lady wrestler to win gold at each the Asian Games and CWG.

Apart from her, India even have Sakshi Malik. Back in 2016, she received the bronze medal and virtually 5 years later, she received a world gold on the Bolat Turlykhanov Cup 2022 wrestling event in Almaty.

The 29-year-old received silver in 2014 adopted by bronze in 2018 and can be trying to go one step up and clinch gold in Birmingham.

20-year-old Anshu Malik is ready to make her debut within the CWG. Back in 2021, she grew to become the primary Indian wrestler to win silver on the World Championships within the girls’s division. Malik has additionally received medals on the Individual World Cup and the Asian Championships.

India wrestling contingent for Commonwealth Games 2022

Pooja Gehlot – girls’s 50kg, Vinesh Phogat – girls’s 53kg, Anshu Malik – girls’s 57kg, Sakshi Malik – girls’s 62kg, Divya Kakran – girls’s 68kg, Pooja Sihag – girls’s 76kg, Ravi Kumar Dahiya – males’s 57kg, Bajrang Punia – males’s 65kg, Naveen – males’s 74kg, Deepak Punia – males’s 86kg, Mohit Grewal (125kg)

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