Paris Olympics 2024: ‘We Can Win Two Or Three Medals In Wrestling’, Says Yogeshwar Dutt

Faridabad: The 2012 Rio Olympics bronze medalist wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt is assured that Indian will win two or increased than two medals in wrestling.

India has secured six quotas for the Paris Olympics in diverse programs. Vinesh Phogat (ladies’s 50kg), Anshu Malik (ladies’s 57kg), Nisha Dahiya (ladies’s 68kg), Reetika Hooda (ladies’s 76kg), Antim Panghal (ladies’s 53kg) and Aman Sehrawat (adult males’s 57kg).

“We can win two or three medals in wrestling by myself. Wrestling has brought medals for India from the closing 4 Olympics leisure pursuits, so this time too Indian wrestlers will objective acceptable for the time of the Olympics,” cited Yogeshwar Dutt to IANS on the returned of ‘Glory of 5 Rings’ adventure.

“Aman is the great adult males’s wrestler and I am very hopeful that he's going to bring the medal for the time of the classification. We've 5 ladies’s wrestlers too, out of which I keep up for 3 medals,” he delivered.

Antim Panghal and Aman Sehrawat have been seeded fourth and sixth in their respective weight programs on the upcoming 2024 Olympics Video games in Paris, commencing on July 26.

For the first time ever on the Olympics, there shall be seedings with the high eight wrestlers in every weight style getting the chance. Both-time Olympian and usa’s medal prospect Vinesh Phogat shall be unseeded for the time of the ladies people’s 50kg freestyle classification at Paris 2024.

Seedings were awarded based on the Wrestlers’ performances on the 2023 World Championships, 2024 Continental Championships, 2024 Zagreb Open Ranking Collection, and the 2024 Hungarian Ranking Collection.

Before now, the seven-member replacement committee made up our minds now no longer to accommodate any trials for the Paris Olympics, as tons of quota wrestlers protested in opposition to it. When asked about WFI’s replacement on now no longer to conducting trials Dutt cited that there would perchance be no would love of national trails of a participant who has secured quota.

“I take delivery of as true with there would perchance be no would love for trials if a diverse participant has already secured a quota for the adventure. The rule is comparatively loads historic and it'll proceed like that. Sushil Kumar certified for 3 Olympic leisure pursuits by utilising quota and I certified for 4 Olympics leisure pursuits by utilising quota, so there would perchance be no would love for trials,” he cited.

With her seeding, Antim will now no longer face her rival and two-time world champion Akari Fujinami of Japan, Qianyu Pang of the Humans’s Republic of China, who won silver in Tokyo 2020, and Emma Malmgren of Sweden, who won two European titles, except the medal rounds.

Alternatively, she may prefer to meet Ecuador’s Lucia Yepez, the World Championships bronze medal winner from closing year, for the time of the semifinals.

Meanwhile, Aman, the 2023 Asian champion and the 2022 Less than-23 world champion, may prefer to play Japan’s Rei Higuchi or Armenia’s Arsen Harutyunyan formerly the medal spherical starts off.

Higuchi is a Rio 2016 silver medallist and the 2022 world champion. Aman misplaced to him on the Hungarian Ranking Collection in June even as Arsen Harutyunyan won bronze on the 2023 World Championships.

The closing 4 Indian wrestlers shall be unseeded at Paris 2024. They're going to be randomly drawn into brackets the day formerly the ladies people’s freestyle wrestling starts off in Paris

Wrestling on the Paris 2024 Olympics will see competitions in 18 medal leisure pursuits six every for the time of the adult males’s freestyle, ladies’s freestyle, and Greco-Roman. Sixteen wrestlers will compete in every of these leisure pursuits.

“My imply to every of the wrestlers that go away the flexibility outdoor the mat and objective at your potential,” Dutt concluded.