Wrestling Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

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some squads for the Asian OQT in Kazakhstan

 

Japan

 

Freestyle

57: Rei Higuchi

86: Sosuke Takatani

97: Naoya Akaguma

125: Tetsuya Tanaka

 

Women

50: Yui Susaki

 

Greco-Roman

67: Shogo Takahashi

77: Shohei Yabiku

87: Masato Sumi

97: Yuta Nara

130: Arata Sonoda

 

Iran

 

Freestyle

65: Amir Mohammad Yazdani

74: Younes Emami

97: Mohammad Hossein Mohammadian

 

Greco-Roman

67: Mohammad Reza Geraei

87: Hossein Nouri

97: Mohammad Hadi Saravi

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Olympic bronze medallist Sakshi Malik has failed to qualify in trials, Defending Asian Champion who won all her matches by fall Divya Kakran has lost, former WC medallist Pooja Dhanda has lost, 3 time National Champion Kiran has lost . So we have a very very  new and young team in women's wrestling.

 

 The following wrestlers have been selected: Seema (50 Kg), Anshu Malik (57 Kg), Sonam Malik (62 Kg), Nisha (68 Kg), Pooja (76 Kg)

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Familiar names with few suprises here and there in men's categories 

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Entries for the African/Oceania qualifier in Tunisia

https://uww.org/article/african-and-oceania-olympic-qualifier-entries

 

a bit surprised to see Australian wrestlers in the list considering how strict they are regarding the quarantine rules. (and wrestling is not a big deal there)

 

Tunisia entered 2-3 wrestlers per weight but if we consider just one of them we will have only 3-4 wrestlers in some weights, (specially in Greco and women) since late withdrawals or disqualification (for not making the weight) is always possible. we may end up with 2 wrestlers in a weight receiving free quotas.

 

interesting note: Blessing OBORUDUDU is in the entry list but that's against the news we heard long time ago about the Swedish girl Jenny Fransson being disqualified from the Worlds (therefore giving her quota to Nigeria) maybe the process of disqualifying Fransson is not over yet but what if Oborududu qualifies here too ? who will get the reallocated quota? the next best wrestler from the 2019 Worlds ? (which is ) or next best girl from Africa?

 

or maybe Fransson somehow survived the doping story ?! UWW never mentioned her in their doping list. that was only Swedish sources talking about her doping.

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Quite a few athletes from Oceania, more than I thought. Also we could see our first athlete from qualify to the Olympics (possibly too)

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17 minutes ago, MHSN said:

Entries for the African/Oceania qualifier in Tunisia

https://uww.org/article/african-and-oceania-olympic-qualifier-entries

 

a bit surprised to see Australian wrestlers in the list considering how strict they are regarding the quarantine rules. (and wrestling is not a big deal there)

 

Tunisia entered 2-3 wrestlers per weight but if we consider just one of them we will have only 3-4 wrestlers in some weights, (specially in Greco and women) since late withdrawals or disqualification (for not making the weight) is always possible. we may end up with 2 wrestlers in a weight receiving free quotas.

 

interesting note: Blessing OBORUDUDU is in the entry list but that's against the news we heard long time ago about the Swedish girl Jenny Fransson being disqualified from the Worlds (therefore giving her quota to Nigeria) maybe the process of disqualifying Fransson is not over yet but what if Oborududu qualifies here too ? who will get the reallocated quota? the next best wrestler from the 2019 Worlds ? (which is ) or next best girl from Africa?

 

or maybe Fransson somehow survived the doping story ?! UWW never mentioned her in their doping list. that was only Swedish sources talking about her doping.

Maybe Nigeria's federation forgot ... lol

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32 minutes ago, MHSN said:

Entries for the African/Oceania qualifier in Tunisia

https://uww.org/article/african-and-oceania-olympic-qualifier-entries

 

a bit surprised to see Australian wrestlers in the list considering how strict they are regarding the quarantine rules. (and wrestling is not a big deal there)

 

Tunisia entered 2-3 wrestlers per weight but if we consider just one of them we will have only 3-4 wrestlers in some weights, (specially in Greco and women) since late withdrawals or disqualification (for not making the weight) is always possible. we may end up with 2 wrestlers in a weight receiving free quotas.

 

interesting note: Blessing OBORUDUDU is in the entry list but that's against the news we heard long time ago about the Swedish girl Jenny Fransson being disqualified from the Worlds (therefore giving her quota to Nigeria) maybe the process of disqualifying Fransson is not over yet but what if Oborududu qualifies here too ? who will get the reallocated quota? the next best wrestler from the 2019 Worlds ? (which is ) or next best girl from Africa?

 

or maybe Fransson somehow survived the doping story ?! UWW never mentioned her in their doping list. that was only Swedish sources talking about her doping.

I think that World Championships have higher priority, so, if Blessing will qualify also from African/Ocenian qualifier I believe that next best African girl will qualify, but I would be glad to be wrong and see our girl as qualified to Olympics in different way 

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1 hour ago, intoronto said:

Maybe Nigeria's federation forgot ... lol

that's not really impossible. maybe they don't even know lol but in that case UWW won't let her wrestle. that's against the rules. you can't participate in weights you are already qualified. we will see if she really wrestles in Tunisia or not.

 

but I think Fransson is probably fighting the disqualification. the case is probably just not over yet. as long as she is not "officially" disqualified, the Nigerian girl is not 100% guaranteed a quota and she has to participate in Africa to make sure. (even though it's taking too long, we heard about Fransson something like 15 months ago)

I only see 5 wrestlers in the list for her weight, so it will be a round robin competition meaning they can always come back to the results and pick up the 3rd girl to qualify instead of her.

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1 hour ago, MHSN said:

or maybe Fransson somehow survived the doping story ?! UWW never mentioned her in their doping list. that was only Swedish sources talking about her doping.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CMncNyzFwvA/?utm_source=ig_embed

 

Looks she is still qualified. At least according to UWW.

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46 minutes ago, MHSN said:

that's not really impossible. maybe they don't even know lol but in that case UWW won't let her wrestle. that's against the rules. you can't participate in weights you are already qualified. we will see if she really wrestlers in Tunisia or not.

 

but I think Fransson is probably fighting the disqualification. the case is probably just not over yet. as long as she is not "officially" disqualified, the Nigerian girl is not 100% guaranteed a quota and she has to participate in Africa to make sure. (even though it's taking too long, we heard about Fransson something like 15 months ago)

I only see 5 wrestlers in the list for her weight, so it will be a round robin competition meaning they can always come back to the results and pick up the 3rd girl to qualify instead of her.

According to this (from 2 months ago) it says her career is over (mind you, I used Google translate) https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/7640233