Ladies’s wrestling camp shifted to IG Stadium in Delhi
New Delhi: After a niche of greater than two years the nationwide wrestling teaching camps began on Thursday, with the ladies’s camp being organised on the Indira Gandhi Sports activities Complicated right here. The boys’s Freestyle and Greco Roman nationwide camps are being held on the SAI NCOE centre in Lucknow.
The nationwide camps had not been organised since prime wrestlers took to streets protesting in opposition to the then Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. WFI, subsequently, confronted a protracted suspension, regardless that contemporary elections have been held in December 2023. The suspension by the Sports activities Ministry was lastly revoked in March this 12 months.
The WFI had earlier proposed to carry the ladies’s camp in SAI Gandhinagar, and the lads’s camp at Military Sports activities Institute, Pune. Nonetheless, that would not occur attributable to varied causes.
SAI has offered sanction for a 61-day camp, however it’s prone to be prolonged until the phrase championships in September (13-21) in Croatia. A complete of 120 wrestlers — 40 every in ladies’s, males’s freestyle and Greco roman kinds — have been chosen primarily based on the efficiency within the trials for the Asian Championships.
The ladies’s camp was once held in Lucknow and it made information for flawed causes through the protests. The Inside Complaints Committee of WFI, fashioned within the wake of sexual harassment allegations levelled by a few of the prime wrestlers, will go to the nationwide camps at common intervals, stated an official of WFI. “Monika Khera, who’s chairperson of the ICC, has attended nationwide championship and trials, and she or he will even go to the nationwide camp in Delhi,” stated an official.
4 wrestlers every have been picked for every weight division primarily based on their efficiency in Asian Championships trials. The 4 wrestlers within the 57kg weight class are Chirag Chikkara, Rahul, Sumit and Vikash Vishnoi. Paris Olympics medallist Aman Sehrawat, who missed the trials and is at present coaching beneath TOPS in Russia, doesn’t determine within the campers checklist. “He will likely be added to the camp when he returns from his abroad coaching on the finish of Might,” stated a WFI official.
In its pointers for nationwide camps issued on April 29, WFI has made it clear that solely campers will likely be eligible to look for choice trials.
“Solely wrestlers attending the teaching camp will likely be eligible for trials, until given particular permission by WFI, significantly if they’ve gained medals in a current competitors. Previous efficiency alone is not going to qualify a wrestler to be given such permission.”
The absence of nationwide camps has impacted coaching of wrestlers during the last two years as they educated largely of their respective coaching centres with restricted sparring companions accessible. Elite wrestlers deliberate their particular person coaching abroad beneath the Goal Olympic Podium Scheme however among the many males’s wrestlers, solely Aman certified for Paris Olympics.
Final week, wrestling coaches in a gathering with TOPS CEO NS Johal stated that particular person coaching programmes of wrestlers beneath the scheme needs to be scrutinised and their opinions needs to be sought. In addition they steered that as an alternative of 1 wrestler alone, three to 4 wrestlers needs to be included in such stints for higher consequence.
