Prioritising strict adherence to weight limits, the WFI additionally determined to cast off the 2 kg rest normally given to wrestlers throughout choice trials. The stipulation will begin with the under-23 trials scheduled in Lucknow and Delhi on October 4 and 5 respectively for the World under-23 championships in Novi Sad, Serbia, from October 20 to 26.
“Aman and the assist employees helping him in Zagreb have been issued show-cause notices. They must reply by September 29. We have to listen to their aspect of the story earlier than taking a choice,” WFI president Sanjay Singh advised The Hindu.
Third-seeded Aman, a robust medal contender, was ineligible to compete within the World championships as he was chubby by 1.7kg forward of his males’s 57kg freestyle competitors.
Sanjay Singh was sad that crores of rupees being spent by the Government on organising camps overseas was being wasted on account of negligence. “The Minister (Mansukh Mandaviya) feels that until we verify this, will probably be tough to count on medals within the Olympics,” he added.
After Vinesh Phogat’s chubby subject on the Paris Olympics, which made the ace wrestler ineligible to compete within the girls’s 50kg closing and virtually denied India a medal, the promising Neha Sangwan (59kg) couldn’t take part within the World under-20 championships final month for not assembly the load restrict.
Aman’s case was the third such incident by an Indian wrestler at a world occasion in a few 12 months.
Published – September 22, 2025 09:09 pm IST
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