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The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) appointed ad-hoc committee has named a 13-member squad for the upcoming Zagreb Open ranking series. The Zagreb Open serves as the first world ranking tournament which will be played from January 10 to 14.
This comes after the United World Wrestling announced the list of participants, which had no Indian athlete in the list. The Chairman of the ad-hoc committee, Bhupinder Singh Bajwa, picked the squad and stated, “Thanks to a timely intervention by the Ministry of External Affairs, the 25 Indians due to travel to Zagreb will complete the via formalities on Wednesday.”
“The team was facing difficulty in securing a via appointment. However, the Ministry of External Affair has helped the team in this regard,” Bajwa further added as stated in the official release. “We have ensured that India’s Olympic hopefuls would compete in their respective weight class along with a 2kg weight allowance in the first ranking event of the Olympic year. We are confident that the 13 who will compete in Zagreb will make most of the chance to prepare for the Asian Qualification tournament in April and the World Qualification tournament in May,” he added.
India team for Zagreb Open ranking series:
Men Freestyle: Aman (57kg), Yash (74kg), Deepak Punia (86kg), Vicky (97kg), Sumit (125kg)
Greco-Roman: Gyanender (60kg), Neeraj (67kg), Vikas (77kg), Sunil Kumar (87kg), Narinder Cheema (97kg), Naveen (130kg)
Women: Sonam (62kg) and Radhika (68kg)
