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WATCH: 10 women's wrestling finals from #WrestleBishkek

Sunday, June 11, 2023 - 10:30 By Vinay Siwach

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (June 11) -- Women's wrestling at the Ranking Series in Bishkek was expected to be dominated by China, a powerhouse. However, Ukraine had different ideas.

Ukraine showed by in big numbers and outperformed other nations in the third Ranking Series event, winning three gold medals. China and Kazakhstan won two each while India and Kyrgyzstan won one each.

Watch the 10 gold medal bouts from the third Ranking Series event.

GOLD: 50kg - Meng FAN (CHN) vs. Oksana LIVACH (UKR)

GOLD: 53kg - Khulan BATKHUYAG (MGL) vs. Otgonjargal GANBAATAR (MGL)

GOLD: 55kg - Marina SEDNEVA (KAZ) vs. Karla GODINEZ (CAN)

GOLD: 57kg - Alina HRUSHYNA (UKR) vs. Kexin HONG (CHN)

GOLD: 59kg - Yuliia TKACH (UKR) vs. Solomiia VYNNYK (UKR)

GOLD: 62kg - Ilona PROKOPEVNIUK (UKR) vs. Orkhon PUREVDORJ (MGL)

Round 4: 65kg - MANISHA (IND) vs. Purevsuren ULZIISAIKHAN (MGL)

GOLD: 68kg - Feng ZHOU (CHN) vs. Delgermaa ENKHSAIKHAN (MGL)

Round 3: 72kg - Zhamila BAKBERGENOVA (KAZ) vs. REETIKA (IND)

GOLD: 76kg - Aiperi MEDET KYZY (KGZ) vs. Yuanyuan HUANG (CHN)

#Anti-Doping

CAS dismisses Datunashvili appeal against anti-doping violation

Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 02:28 By United World Wrestling Press

CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (November 22) -- The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has upheld the five-year ban imposed on Zurabi DATUNASHVILI (SRB), dismissing his appeal against the sanction handed down last year.

The CAS Anti-Doping Division (CAS ADD) sanctioned Datunashvili with five years of ineligibility on September 19, 2024. He filed an appeal against the decision, but on November 17, 2025, CAS dismissed the appeal and confirmed the sanction. His period of ineligibility will run until April 10, 2028.

Datunashvili had been charged by the ITA with multiple anti-doping rule violations (ADRVs), including the use of urine substitution in the lead-up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and the creation and use of a fabricated video as evidence to justify a missed out-of-competition doping control in 2022.

As a result of the sanction, all results obtained by Datunashvili from May 27, 2021, to April 11, 2023 (the date of his provisional suspension) were disqualified, including his bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics and the gold medals he won at the 2021 and 2022 World Championships.