Mumbai: Sony Pictures Networks India Private Limited (SPN) has acquired media rights comprising of exclusive television broadcast rights and non-exclusive digital transmission rights for the World Wrestling Championship 2019, to be held from September 14 to 22, 2019 in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. The agreement with Sporty Solutionz, UWWs Media Rights exclusive partners for the territory, covers television and digital rights in the Indian sub-continent.
Organized by United World Wrestling, the 2019 World Championships will be the first qualification event in select categories for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. The preliminary rounds will be live-streamed only on SonyLIV. The semi-finals and finals across all the three events - Men's Freestyle, Greco Roman and Women's Wrestling - and weight categories will be telecast daily on SONY TEN 3 SD & HD and SONY ESPN SD & HD channels as well as live-streamed on SonyLIV starting from September 14, 2019, until September 22, 2019. All the matches will be aired live in India between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. IST.
The UWW World Championships are the amateur wrestling world championships organized by United World Wrestling. (IANS)