Webinar

Webinar Schedule for August 31 – September 6

By United World Wrestling Press

Topic: Challenge Procedure / Consultation Procedure (GR/FS/WW)
Date:  Monday, 31 August
Time:  15:00 - Zurich (UTC+2) – 09:00 - New York (Check your local time)
Speaker: Antonio Silvestri and Ibrahim Cicioglu
Language:  English
Level:  National and International Referees
Meeting Link: https://zoom.us/j/96345976630

Topic: Negative Wrestling: Offensive and Defensive foul
Date:  Thursday, 03 September
Time:  14:00 - Zurich (UTC+2) – 08:00 - New York (Check your local time)
Speaker: Noravard Arustamyan and Sergei Kovalenko
Language:  Russian
Level:  National and International Referees
Meeting Link: https://zoom.us/j/94972300511

Topic: Negative Wrestling: Offensive and Defensive foul
Date:  Thursday, 03 September
Time:  16:00 - Zurich (UTC+2) – 10:00 - New York (Check your local time)
Speaker: Kamel Bouaziz
Language:  French
Level:  National and International Referees
Meeting Link: https://zoom.us/j/98045646253

Topic: Negative Wrestling: Offensive and Defensive foul
Date:  Thursday, 03 September
Time:  18:00 - Zurich (UTC+2) – 12:00 - New York (Check your local time)
Speaker: Carlos Garcia
Language:  Spanish
Level:  National and International Referees
Meeting Link: https://zoom.us/j/98839072853

Topic: Referee – Controlling the bout
Date:  Saturday, 05 September
Time:  16:00 - Zurich (UTC+2) – 10:00 - New York (Check your local time)
Speaker: Kamel Bouaziz and Sherif Halawa
Language:  Arabic
Level:  National and International Referees
Meeting Link: https://zoom.us/j/91827185620

#Anti-Doping

CAS dismisses Datunashvili appeal against anti-doping violation

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.