Phogat & Punia among top wrestlers to pull out of Ibrahim-Moustafa tournament

Top Indian wrestlers continued to opt out of big events as the likes of Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia have decided to give the upcoming 2nd Ranking Series IbrahimMoustafa tournament a missIt is the second time in the month that Vinesh Bajrang Ravi Dahiya Deepak Punia Anshu Malik Sangeeta Phogat and Sangita Mor have decided to sit out of an important tournament to be held in Alexandria Egypt from February 23 to 26The top grapplers had earlier pulled out of the Zagreb Open saying they are not ready for the competitionThe Mary Komheaded oversight committee managing the WFI affairs cleared a contingent of 27 Indian wrestlers for the upcoming tournamentAlso Read WFI rejects wrestlers allegations in reply to governmentThe event will be crucial for gaining ranking points for better seeding at the Senior Asian Championships 2023 and the Senior World Championships 2023The Indian team consists of nine freestyle eight women and 10 grecoroman wrestlers besides 16 coaches and support staffThe 27 wrestlers will also include three Target Olympics Podium Scheme TOPS grapplers Ashu 67kg GR Bhateri 65kg women and Sujeet 65kg FSWe want to ensure that the sport and the athletes do not suffer and more and more wrestlers get international exposure so they can have the opportunity to compete against the best in the world Mary Kom said in a statementSo far as many as nine current and former world championship gold medallists have registered for the second ranking seriesDuring their threeday protest at Jantar Mantar in January the wrestlers said that they will not compete in any national or international tournament till theWrestling Federation of India WFI is disbanded and its chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh sackedTeamGrecoRoman Manjeet 55kg Vikram Kurade 60kg Karanjeet 67kg Nitin 63kg Ashu 67kg Ankit Gulia 72kg S ajan 77kg Rohit Dahiya 82kg Narinder Cheema 97kg Naveen 130kgWomen Sushma Shokeen 55kg Sito 57kg Simran 59kg Sumitra 62kg Bhateri 65kg Radhika 68kg Reetika 72kg Kiran 76kgFreestyle Udit 57kg Pankaj 61kg Sujeet 65kg Sagar Jaglan 74kg Pardeep 79kg Jonty Kumar 86kg Prithviraj Patil 92kg Sahil 97kg0 Dinesh 125kgThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever