Indian wrestlers completed their marketing campaign on the International Underneath-20 Wrestling Championships 2023 with with 14 medals – 4 gold, 3 silver and 7 bronze. The development used to be held in Amman, Jordan, from August 14 to twenty.
The week-long tournament on the Amman World Stadium noticed bouts in males’s and girls’s freestyle and males’s Greco-Roman classes. A complete of 30 Indian wrestlers – one in every medal tournament – competed within the forty sixth version of the junior wrestling championships.
The nineteen-year-old Antim Panghal, who made historical past via changing into the primary Indian girl to turn into an U20 wrestling international champion in Sofia, Bulgaria, ultimate 12 months, successfuly defended her ladies’s 53kg crown in Amman and spearheaded the Indian medal rush. With the win, Antim Panghal become the primary Indian girl wrestler to win two U20 international titles.
Mohit Kumar, in the meantime, become the U-20 international champion within the 61kg freestyle class after he bounced again from 0-6 rating within the ultimate towards the Russian Federation’s Eldar Akhmaduninov to win the fit 9-8.
Priya Malik become handiest the second one Indian girl to be topped the U-20 international champion. She defeated Laura Celine Kuehn of Germany 5-0 within the ultimate of the ladies’s 76kg. Savita (ladies’s 62kg) accounted for India’s fourth gold on the Amman meet.
India additionally claimed the ladies’s crew name on the International Underneath-20 Wrestling Championships 2023 with seven medals, together with 3 gold. The lads’s freestyle crew completed 3rd.
India bagged only one gold, 4 silvers and 11 bronze medals ultimate 12 months.
International Underneath-20 Wrestling Championships 2023: India complete squad
Males’s freestyle: Sagar (57kg), Mohit Kumar (61kg), Jaskaran Singh (65kg), Narender (70kg), Jaideep (74kg), Sagar Jaglan (79kg), Mukul Dahiya (86kg), Vinay (92kg), Deepak Chahal (97kg), Rajat Ruhal (125kg)
Girls’s freestyle: Priyanshi Prajapat (50kg), Antim Panghal (53kg), Jyoti (55kg), Reena (57kg), Nitika (59kg), Savita (62kg), Antim (65kg), Arju (68kg), Harshita Mor (72kg), Priya Malik (76kg)
Males’s Greco-Roman: Anil Mor (55kg), Sumit Dalal (60kg), Sandeep (63kg), Umesh (67kg), Ankit Gulia (72kg), Deepak Punia (77kg), Rohit Dahiya (82kg), Mohit Khokhar (87kg), Sahil (97kg), Parvesh (130kg)
