Baiju to lead Kerala at national armwrestling championship

Kozhikode, Aug 21 (UNI) Armwrestler Baiju Lucose will lead defending champion Kerala in the 30th National Armwrestling Championship to be held at Hyderabad from August 25.

Those grabbing the first and second positions at the nationals would represent India at the 28th World Armwrestling Championship at Manchester City in London, Kerala Armwrestling Association said in a release.

The other members of the Kerala team are -- V T Shoukatali, P A Jibin, P Siddique, Jeeson Joseph, A Rajan, P R Praveen, Muhammad Iqbal, K P Jaffer, N P Shajir, K S Manoj, T P Ajit Kumar, Abdul Jaffer, K S Vinoj, T V Akbar, K V Vinod, E V Saleesh, T V Habeeb, T K Suresh Kumar, Sebastan Mathew, M Vinod Kumar, M V Aneesh, P R Mukesh.

Coach: P T Sundaran, Team Manager: P S Suman.

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