Asian Games 2023 Wrestling Trials Results: Men's and Women's freestyle, and Greco-Roman wrestlers qualifiers

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Asian Games 2023 Wrestling Trials were completed on July 23 (Sunday) with a shock result of Ravi Dahiya losing the early round to unheralded Rahul at the IG Stadium in New Delhi. Vishal Kaliraman win the men's 65kg freestyle category and will be on standby to Bajrang Punia, who was granted direct entry to Asiad.

Commonwealth Games gold medallist Deepak Punia also qualified for the Asian Games 2023 as he won the 86kg category. Yash, Vicky and Sumit also booked their birth in the 74kg, 97kg and 125kg men's freestyle slots, respectively.

On its opening day saw Sonam Malik, Mansi Ahlawat among other wrestlers book their Huangzhou ticket while famed wrestlers Sarita Mor and Anshu Mallik failed to qualify for the quadrennial event. In total, 16 wrestlers qualified for the Asian Games 2023 through trials while 18 made the standby list.

Asian Games 2023 Wrestling Trials Results

Men's freestyle category

Women's freestyle

Greco Roman

Note: The final entry list is subject to Ad-hoc Committee's decision

The wrestling trials are taking place at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi on July 22-23 after the Asian Olympic body (OCA) granted IOA a week extension on the deadline of July 15 to send the entry list of the participant.

The extension was granted under special circumstances as the Wrestling Federation of India was suspended after sexual harassment allegations against its top brass. The Ad-hoc Committee, appointed by Indian Olympic Association (IOA), are currently in charge of the day-to-day affairs of the WFI until the wrestling body hosts its election.

As far as the wrestling trials are concerned, elite wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat were handed direct entry after the duo sought additional time to prepare for the trials. The rest of the categories saw winners of the trials take the Asian Games participation berth while the runners-up were named the standby.

The ad-hoc committee earlier suggested one-bout special trials in their respective weight categories (women's 53 kg and men's 65 kg) in August. However, OCA's refusal of granting the entry list deadline extension of more than a week meant the panel came up with the decision of granting exemption to Bajrang and Vinesh from the trials on the grounds of their performance in the last year.