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Georgia announces Freestyle World Cup team

Tuesday, November 22, 2022 - 02:48 By Gary Abbott

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CORALVILLE, Iowa (November 21) --- The lineups for Georgia, which will compete in Freestyle World Cup, has been released.

The Freestyle and Women’s Wrestling World Cup will be held at Xtream Arena in Coralville, Iowa, Dec. 10-11. It is the first time that  freestyle and women’s wrestling will be held together side-by-side at the World Cup.

The World Cup is the annual international dual meet championships, conducted by United World Wrestling. The top five teams in freestyle and the top five teams in women’s wrestling from the 2022 Senior World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia in September have confirmed their participation. There is also an All World Team in each discipline, featuring the top available athlete from the World Championships in each weight class that were not from a nation which qualified for the World Cup.

The Georgia World Cup team will feature five senior world medalists and three others who have been age-group World medalists.

The team is led by three-time world champion and two-time Olympic medalist Geno PETRIASHVILI at 125kg. Petriashvili won Senior World titles in 2017, 2018 and 2019. He was a 2020 Olympic silver medalist and 2016 Olympic bronze medalist. Add in a 2021 world silver medal and three world bronze medals (2013, 2015, 2022) and you have one of the best wrestlers in the world today. He also boasts world titles at the U23 and U20 levels.

2017 world champion Zurabi IAKOBIASHVILI will compete at 70kg. Iakobishvili also won three world bronze medals (2018, 2021 and 2022). He was 10th in the 2016 Olympic Games.

Other senior world medalists on the Georgia team include 2016 world silver medalist Beka LOMTADZE  (65kg) and a pair of 2022 world bronze medalists, Miriani MAISURADZE (92kg) and Givi MATCHARASHVILI (97kg). Maisuradze was a 2016 U17 World champion and a 2022 U23 World bronze medalist. Matcharashvili won a U23 World title in 2018 and a U17 World title in 2014, plus two other age-group World medals.

Age-group World medalists on the Georgia roster includes 2022 U23 World champion Vladimeri GAMKRELIDZE (79kg), plus 2019 U23 world bronze medalist Giorgi SULAVA (74kg) and 2015 U20 world bronze medalist Tarzan MAISURADZE (86kg).

Georgia, which placed fifth at the 2022 World Championships in men’s freestyle, will be joined in the World Cup by first place United States, second place Iran, third place Japan and fourth place Mongolia, in addition to the All-World Team.

The rosters of the World Cup teams for the other nations will be announced over the next week by USA Wrestling.

Ticket packages for the 2022 Men’s and Women’s Wrestling World Cup are currently on sale. The seating capacity for Xtream Arena for the World Cup will be approximately 5,300. Ticket packages include a Gold package for $275, Silver package for $200 and All-Session tickets for $90.

A special Presentation of Teams and Team USA Meet & Greet will also be held on Friday, December 9 at 6:45 p.m. It is free and open to the public.

Men’s and Women’s Wrestling World Cup tickets -> https://worldcupiowacity.com/tickets/

Georgia Freestyle World Cup team
57 kg – Beka Bujiashvili
61 kg – Teimuraz VANISHVILI
65 kg – Beka LOMTADZE 
70 kg – Zurabi IAKOBIASHVILI
74 kg – Giorgi SULAVA
79 kg – Vladimeri GAMKRELIDZE
86 kg – Tarzan MAISURADZE
92 kg – Miriani MAISURADZE
97 kg – Givi MATCHARASHVILI
125 kg – Geno PETRIASHVILI

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Finland looking for head coaching candidates

Monday, September 23, 2024 - 12:58 By United World Wrestling Press

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HELSINKI, Finland (September 23) --- The Finnish Wrestling Federation is looking for a head coach and national team coaches for results-responsible positions for the 2025–2028 Olympics. We require the coach to have competence and commitment to the level of requirements of international top sports/youth coaching activities aimed at the top.

Duties and responsibilities of the Head Coach

  • Acts as the head of coaching and leads coaching activities (all forms of wrestling)
  • Responsible for LA2028 federation-led coaching of elite athletes (plans, daily coaching, competitions, camps, follow-up)
  • Responsible for success according to the goals, works closely with HUY, coaching centers and other important stakeholders
  • Responsible for the implementation of the national team activities of all forms of wrestling according to the budget (monitoring)
  • Developer of top coaching and participates in coach training.


The national team coach works full-time in contract-led coaching positions (e.g. top-level coach, youth national team coach) and in daily coaching. In addition to his own job, the OTO national team coach works in the coaching positions of the federation management according to the contract. The tasks and responsibilities of the national team coaches in question become clearer when the whole of the coaching is clear.

Responsibilities, tasks and other working conditions related to the content of the work are agreed upon in negotiations between the parties. The tasks, their fulfillment and the duration of the fixed-term contract depend on the commitments of the Olympic Committee's elite sports unit and other sponsors of the salary. An entity other than Painiliitto can also act as an employer. The work includes travel and evening and weekend work, and no separate compensation is paid for it.

If you are interested in the above-mentioned positions, please send a free-form application and a concise summary of your skills, education and experience by email to info@painiliitto.net by Friday, October 4, 2024.

Also, tell us your salary expectations and which positions you are interested in ( wrestling form, age group, full-time job, or working alongside your own job, etc. ). You can apply for several different positions with one application, as long as you tell us which positions you are interested in. Employment begins on January 1, 2025 or later, when case-specific salary funding has been confirmed.

Inquiries: Pekka Paavola, Chairman of the Wrestling Association (044 977 5287)