#WrestleWarsaw

Turkey's Freestyle Team Late-Scratches from #WrestleWarsaw Poland Open

By Eric Olanowski

WARSAW, Poland (June 7) --- Turkey's freestyle team has late-scratched from this week's #WrestleWarsaw Poland Open (May 8-13) after most of the 22-man roster competed last weekend in Istanbul at the Freestyle National Championships. According to the Turkish Wrestling Federation, "It was decided to hold the National Wrestling Freestyle Championships (June 4-7) in Istanbul. Due to this reason our freestyle team can not take part in the Ranking Series Tournament in Warsaw."

The Poland Open kicks off tomorrow morning at 11:00 (local time) and can be followed live on www.uww.org.

Turkey's team pulled from the entry list:
57kg - Saban KIZILTAS
57kg - Engin CETIN
57kg - Hafiz Can HASDEMIR
61kg - Recep TOPAL
61kg - Emrah ORMANOGLU
61kg - Cabbar Taner DUYUM
65kg - Selim KOZAN
65kg - Cavit ACAR
70kg - Mustafa KAYA
70kg - Selahattin KILICSALLAYAN
70kg - Cuneyt BUDAK
74kg - Soner DEMIRTAS
74kg - Yakup GOR
74kg - Fazli ERYILMAZ
79kg - Ramazan SARI
86kg - Fatih ERDIN
92kg - Erhan YAYLACI
92kg - Selim YASAR
92kg - Mustafa Kemal KIYI
97kg - Ibrahim CIFTCI
97kg - Feyzullah AKTURK
125kg - Anil Berkan KILICSALLAYAN

#UnitedWorldWrestling

Dittmann re-elected as European Council President

By United World Wrestling Press

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (April 6) — Karl Martin DITTMANN was re-elected as the President of the European Council at the election held Sunday on the sidelines of the European Championships in Bratislava.

The elections were held for the Executive Committee of the UWW-European Council for seven members and 11 nominations were received for the same. Four members were re-elected while three new members were added after they won the majority vote of at least 17 from total votes of 33.

Four re-elected members:

Razvan PIRCALABU (ROU)
Csilla ALI (HUN)
Karl-Martin DITTMANN (GER)
Georgy BRYUSOV (RUS)

Three newly elected members are:

Yusif ABBASOV (SRB)
Edisher MACHAIDZE (GEO)
Salvatore FINIZIO (ITA)

Pircalabu was also re-elected as the Vice-President and so was Ali who was re-elected as the Secretary of the council.

Onder YAKSI (TUR), who was the member of the European Council, was approved to be the co-opted member of the council at the general assembly.