GAMMA Asian Championships 2021: Here are the GAMMA India Representatives

The GAMMA Asian MMA championship 2021 is all set to happen from 24 to 28 August 2021 in Kyrgyzstan.

The event will bring together male and female athletes from GAMMA's Asian National Federations to compete in a total of 32 weight classes across two divisions: mixed martial arts and Striking MMA. Each division will have 16 weight categories, nine for males and seven for females.

GAMMA India will be sending a total of 17 athletes (athletes are currently awaiting VISA approval) to the event across multiple weight classes. The names competing in the MMA discipline will be athletes that secured Gold or Silver medal at the GAMMA India MMA Nationals that happened in Bangalore earlier this year. You can check out the complete action from the GAMMA India Nationals by clicking here.

Below is the list of athletes from GAMMA India that will be representing India at the GAMMA Asian Championship 2021.

MMA:

• Havish Reddy (115 lbs)
• Arsenba Ozukum (125 lbs)
• Aaquib Javid (135 lbs)
• Mairidin Newmai (145 lbs)
• Sumit Bhyan (155 lbs)
• Suyash Jadhav (170 lbs)
• Sahil Dahiya (185 lbs)
• Akshata Khadtare (105 lbs Women’s)
• Samata Sonawane (115 lbs Women’s)
• Sanika Patil (125 lbs Women’s)

Striking MMA:

• Jowkhum Dili (115 lbs)
• Vishnu Warrier (125 lbs)
• Limasunep Imchen (135 lbs)
• Kekhrineitso Angami (155 lbs)
• Longstsukumba Ao (170 lbs)
• Anurag Singh (185 lbs)
• Harpreet Kaur (125 lbs Women’s)

What is Striking MMA?

The rules are intuitive as they include all the techniques which have made mixed martial arts popular except with the exclusion of the ground and pound techniques. Athletes are still allowed to submit their opponents to the ground and have a maximum of 30 seconds time to finish the submission to get the tap out and win. The fighter who was saved by 30 sec. the rule gets a point deducted similar to a knockdown in stand-up.

Medals at GAMMA World Championships

India had a great showing at the GAMMA World Championships which was held back in 2019. The team secured a total of seven medals and finished eighth in the medal standings. The team won three silver medals and four bronze medals at the event.

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