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Indian Arm Wrestling Federation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ124255435 ↗
Source-derived summary

Indian Arm Wrestling Federation is the governing body for arm wrestling in India.

History

Indian Arm Wrestling Federation was formed in 1977 to promote Arm Wrestling as sport in India.

Arm Wrestling also called as "Panja" has been promoted through Pro Panja League (PPL) set up in Year 2020 for organising League matches.

Tournaments

Indian Arm Wrestling Federation conducted 45th Arm Wrestling Championship in Srinagar with the support of Jammu and Kashmir Arm Wrestling Association.

Indian Arm Wrestling Federation has also been organising regular league level matches across India every year.

Competitions

Indian Arm Wrestling Federation sent 43 member team to World Arm Wrestling Championships held at Almaty, Kazaksthan from August 24 to September 3.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Indian, Wrestling and Federation can be independently traced.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q124255435. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1977 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Indian Arm Wrestling Federation” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.