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WATCH: 10 women's wrestling finals from World Championships

Wednesday, September 28, 2022 - 09:14 By Vinay Siwach

BELGRADE, Serbia (September 28) -- The women's competition was dominated by two nations as they competed for the team title. Japan and the USA went toe-to-toe for the title but ultimately it was Japan that claimed the top honors. Japan won five gold medals the USA won three. Moldova and Turkey won one each.

Watch all the 10 gold medals bouts from the World Championships here.

GOLD: 50kg - Otgonjargal DOLGORJAV (MGL) vs. Yui SUSAKI (JPN)

GOLD: 53kg - Khulan BATKHUYAG (MGL) vs. Dominique PARRISH (USA)

GOLD: 55kg - Mayu SHIDOCHI (JPN) vs. Oleksandra KHOMENETS (UKR)

GOLD: 57kg - Helen MAROULIS (USA) vs. Tsugumi SAKURAI (JPN)

GOLD: 59kg - Grace BULLEN (NOR) vs. Anastasia NICHITA (MDA)

GOLD: 62kg - Nonoka OZAKI (JPN) vs. Kayla MIRACLE (USA)

GOLD: 65kg - Miwa MORIKAWA (JPN) vs. Jia LONG (CHN)

GOLD: 68kg - Ami ISHII (JPN) vs. Tamyra MENSAH STOCK (USA)

GOLD: 72kg - Zhamila BAKBERGENOVA (KAZ) vs. Amit ELOR (USA)

GOLD: 76kg - Yasemin ADAR (TUR) vs. Samar HAMZA (EGY)

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Al Awamleh elected UWW Asia president

Monday, March 24, 2025 - 17:15 By United World Wrestling Press

AMMAN, Jordan (March 23) -- Mohamad AL-AWAMLEH, the president of the Jordan Wrestling Federation, was elected as the president of United World Wrestling Asia at the General Assembly held on the sidelines of the Asian Championships 2025.

The election for new UWW Asia council was held Monday for seven members. 14 nominations were received for the same and 38 national federations participated in the elections.

Four out of the seven are newly elected:

Mohamad AL-AWAMLEH (JOR)
Alireza DABIR (IRI)
Lana KHDOUR (PLE)
Sanjay SINGH (IND)

Three members were re-elected:

Kenneth LEE (KOR)
Melis TURGANBAEV (KGZ)
Ye ZHANG (CHN)

After the elections, the council members elected the president, vice-president and secretary general for UWW Asia.

Al-Awamleh as elected as the president while Dabir was elected as the vice-president of UWW Asia.

Lee, who was the vice-president in the previous term, was elected as the secretary general of UWW Asia for the next four years.