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Wrestler Neha fails weigh-in, barred by WFI

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August 26, 2025

Wrestler Neha Sangwan has been dropped from the Indian team for next month's World Championships and suspended for two years by the Wrestling Federation of India as disciplinary action for failing to maintain her weight at the recent junior Worlds in Bulgaria.

- Avishek Roy

The 59kg wrestler was found ‘overweight during weigh-in and ‘was disqualified from the competition. India went unrepresented in the division. Ina notice issued to Neha, WFI president Sanjay Singh said it was notan “isolated incident” and that she had been guilty of such lapses during the U20 Worlds in Spain last year and at the international ranking series in Hungary this year.

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