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WATCH: Matteo Pellicone 10 freestyle finals

Thursday, June 30, 2022 - 08:05 By Vinay Siwach

ROME, Italy (June) -- Freestyle at Matteo Pellicone saw Azerbaijan claim most of the gold medals at the Ranking Series event. Azerbaijan won four gold medals and Slovakia being the second-best with two gold. Turkey, Puerto Rico, Ukraine and Georgia managed to win a gold each in Rome.

Here are the 10 gold-medal bouts from the Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series event.

GOLD: 57kg - Horst LEHR (GER) vs. Aliabbas RZAZADE (AZE)

GOLD: 61kg - Andrii DZHELEP (UKR) vs. Recep TOPAL (TUR)

GOLD: 65kg - Erik ARUSHANIAN (UKR) vs. Sebastian RIVERA (PUR)

GOLD: 70kg - Joshgun AZIMOV (AZE) vs. Murad EVLOEV (AZE)

GOLD: 74kg - Turan BAYRAMOV (AZE) vs. Taimuraz SALKAZANOV (SVK)

GOLD: 79kg - Vasyl MYKHAILOV (UKR) vs. Iakub SHIKHDZHAMALOV (ROU)

GOLD: 86kg - Tarzan MAISURADZE (GEO) vs. Abubakr ABAKAROV (AZE)

GOLD: 92kg - Miriani MAISURADZE (GEO) vs. Osman NURMAGOMEDOV (AZE)

GOLD: 97kg - Givi MATCHARASHVILI (GEO) vs. Batyrbek TCAKULOV (SVK)

GOLD: 125kg - Geno PETRIASHVILI (GEO) vs. Robert BARAN (POL)

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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.