JASMIT Phulka will be the only South Asian on the Canadian wrestling team that is headed for the Senior World Wrestling Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, in September, after winning in the 79 kg free style category last weekend at Calgary at the Non-Olympic Weight Trials. Jasmit, seen in this photo wrestling with Manitoba’s Brock Munro, won all four matches against the top wrestlers in Canada: vs. Miles Kent (Alberta) 10-0; vs. Brock Munro (Manitoba) 10-0; vs. Sam Barmish (Quebec) 7-3; and vs. Shawn Daye Finley (Alberta) 4-4. Jasmit, 25, who graduated from Abbotsford’s Rick Hansen High School, has been wrestling since grade 4 with Abbotsford’s Miri Piri Wrestling Club under famous head coach Sucha Mann. Mann told The VOICE that this world championship is the first qualifying tournament for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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This story appeared in our Saturday, July 6 print paper