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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)

World Grappling Committee President Bochkev passes away

Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 09:25 By United World Wrestling Press

CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (May 2) -- United World Wrestling's World Grappling Committee's President Rizvan BOCHKEV passed away Wednesday. The sudden passing of the 59-year-old has left the UWW and its family in shock.

Bochkev, vice president of the Russian Wrestling Federation and a coach, was involved with UWW and Grappling for a long time.

Before 2013, Bochkev was an active member of Grappling and promoted it under FILA. He worked tirelessly to reintroduce it as a recognized wrestling style under UWW after it was dropped in late 2013. This gave the right recognition to a wrestling style growing in several countries.

Bochkev was elected as the President of the World Grappling Committee in 2016 and was instrumental in reintroducing the UWW World Grappling Championships. In 2022, Bochkev was re-elected as the President of the World Grappling Committee and remained an active promoter of the sport.

United World Wrestling expresses its deepest condolences to the Bochkev family.