Wrestling, India's second most productive sport at the Commonwealth Games (CWG), has been excluded from the 2026 edition to be held in Australia. This is the fourth time the sport has been dropped from the CWG programme since its introduction in 1930-Auckland 1990, Kuala Lumpur 1998, and Melbourne 2006 were the other instances.
India were disappointed when shooting, in which they return a rich haul every time, was dropped from the 2022 CWG. While the sport has been restored in the next Games to be staged in the Victoria state, it is the turn of the wrestlers to feel upset.
India have topped the wrestling medal tally four times at CWG, thrice in the last four editions. At Birmingham this year, they won 12 medals, six of them gold, to be the top contributors to India's tally of 61 medals.
The decision wasn't entirely unexpected as the local organizing committee had excluded shooting, wrestling, and archery from their initial list in April. Shooting is India's most successful sport at CWG (135 medals). A total of 20 sports and 26 disciplines, including nine fully integrated para-sports, will be part of the next CWG that will be held across multiple cities - Geelong, Gippsland, Ballarat, and Bendigo-for the first time.
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