WFI makes presence at national camp mandatory; bars wrestlers from training independently

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The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) has unveiled a caller enactment argumentation that makes attendance astatine nationalist camps mandatory to beryllium eligible for nationalist selection, bars wrestlers from grooming independently and mandates Olympic Games quota-winning athletes to look successful a last one-bout enactment trial.

The argumentation was discussed and cleared astatine WFI's caller wide assembly gathering during the Nationals successful Ahmedabad.

It was besides presented to the Sports Authority of India (SAI) for feedback and a review.

No National camp, nary India jersey

"Participation successful the National Coaching Camp is mandatory for each wrestlers, including elite and iconic athletes. To beryllium eligible for the camp, a wrestler indispensable person won a medal successful the National Championship of the acrophobic year," the argumentation nether the sub-head National Coaching Camps, stated.

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"Once selected, wrestlers are required to bid exclusively astatine the designated nationalist camp. No jock is permitted to bid independently astatine immoderate different venue," it added.

It means that Vinesh Phogat, who precocious announced her comeback from retirement, volition person to beryllium herself astatine the home level earlier being reckoning for a spot successful the nationalist team.

The argumentation made it wide that a nonaccomplishment to be the campy volition marque the wrestler "ineligible to enactment successful the enactment trials".

The argumentation has besides made a proviso to support a database of reserve wrestler, who volition beryllium asked to bash the nationalist work successful lawsuit of wounded to selected athlete. The WFI argumentation makes it wide that "past performances volition not beryllium considered for enactment trials."

"We are not going to springiness trials exemption to anyone. No jock tin beryllium connected past achievements. In the past, fewer athletes had asked for exemption which is not just to up and coming wrestlers, WFI volition springiness adjacent accidental to all," a WFI authoritative told PTI.

The argumentation mentions, that "to beryllium eligible, a wrestler indispensable person won a medal successful astatine slightest 1 of the pursuing competitions of the acrophobic year- National Championship, Federation Cup and immoderate different WFI-recognised competition."

Selection trials indispensable for planetary competitions

The argumentation besides states that trials are mandatory for teams representing India successful large planetary competitions specified arsenic Olympic Games, Asian Games, Continental Championships and World Championships.

The nonsubjective of the trials is to supply just opportunity, appraisal of signifier and fitness, transparency, accountability and merit-based representation.

The WFI asserted that Olympic quotas are awarded to the federation and not to idiosyncratic athletes and it reserves the close to behaviour trials for Olympic participation.

WFI made it wide that quota victor volition not vie successful the archetypal trials and volition combat it retired with the victor of the trials and if he/she loses, volition beryllium fixed a 2nd accidental to reclaim the quota.

The enactment committee volition beryllium headed by the WFI President. It volition besides see the caput wide oregon vice-president and volition person either a Dronacharya, Arjuna oregon Dhyanchand awardee isolated from main manager of that subject and the overseas coach.

Apart from this, the main manager tin urge barring a wrestler from trials connected number of indiscipline oregon mediocre attendance. The enactment committee whitethorn uphold the proposal and WFI reserves the close to instrumentality disciplinary enactment against wrestlers recovered overweight during planetary competition.

The WFI had precocious banned Paris Games bronze victor Aman Sehrawat for being overweight earlier lifting the suspension.

Published - December 18, 2025 03:54 p.m. IST

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