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WATCH: 10 freestyle finals from Ibrahim Moustafa

Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 09:33 By Vinay Siwach

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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (March 2) -- The Ibrahim Moustafa Ranking Series closed off with freestyle. The gold medal bouts in Alexandria were nothing short of thrilling with gold medals to Turkey, the USA, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Georgia, Ukraine and Slovakia.

Here are the 10 gold medal bouts from the second Ranking Series event of the year.

GOLD: 57kg - Suleyman ATLI (TUR) vs. Andrii YATSENKO (UKR) 

GOLD: 61kg -  Taras MARKOVYCH (UKR) vs. Taiyrbek ZHUMASHBEK UULU (KGZ)

GOLD: 61kg - Vazgen TEVANYAN (ARM) vs. Joseph Christopher MC KENNA (USA)

GOLD: 70kg - Lucas CHITTUM (USA) vs. Ernazar AKMATALIEV (KGZ)

Semifinal: 74kg - Iakub SHIKHDZHAMALOV (ROU) vs. Soner DEMIRTAS (TUR) [The at 74kg did not take place after Vincenzo JOSEPH (USA) got injured]

GOLD: 79kg -  Avtandil KENTCHADZE (GEO) vs. Amirhossein Morteza Gholi KAVOUSI (IRI)

GOLD: 86kg - Vasyl MYKHAILOV (UKR) vs. Zahid VALENCIA (USA)

Semifinal: 92kg - Khaled ELMOATAMADAWI (EGY) vs. Kollin Raymond MOORE (USA)

GOLD: 97kg - Batyrbek TCAKULOV (SVK) vs. Zbigniew BARANOWSKI (POL)

GOLD: 125kg - Kamil Tomasz KOSCIOLEK (POL) vs. Taha AKGUL (TUR)

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Lee re-elected as President of UWW Pan-American Council

Friday, May 9, 2025 - 05:34 By United World Wrestling Press

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MONTERREY, Mexico (May 8) -- Francisco LEE will continue as the President of the UWW Pan-American Council after being re-elected on Wednesday.

The elections, held on the sidelines of the 2025 Pan-American Championships, saw five members being re-elected and two elected as new members.

Re-elected members
Francisco LEE (GUA)
Guillermo DIAZ (MEX)
Fernando RITTNER(ARG)
Fanny ECHEVERRI (COL)
Manuel ESPINOZA (CHI)

Newly elected members
Rich BENDER (USA)
Jose BARRETO (VEN)

After the elections, the council's executive board elected the office bearers with Lee re-elected as the President.

Diaz was given the position of General Secretary of the council while Bender, USA Wrestling Executive Director, was appointed as the Vice-President.