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Webinars for the Week of Aug 4-8

Thursday, July 30, 2020 - 11:49 By United World Wrestling Press

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Title:  Coaching Skills
Date:  Tuesday, 4 August
Time:  20:00 (Zurich) – 14:00 (New York)
Speaker:  Pedro ROJAS
Language:  Spanish
Target Audience:  Local and National Coaches
Zoom link:  https://zoom.us/j/98533965328

Title:  Controlling the Bout - Referees
Date:  Wednesday, 5 August
Time:  14:00 (Zurich) – 8:00 (New York)
Speaker:  Norovard ARUSTAMYAN
Language:  Russian
Target Audience:  National and International Referees
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/99220705941

Title:  Coaching Skills
Date:  Thursday, 6 August
Time:  14:00 (Zurich) – 8:00 (New York)
Speaker:  Vladimir SHATSKYKH
Language:  Russian
Target Audience:  Local and National Coaches
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/97322511991

Title:  Active Wrestling and Criteria for Passive Wrestling (GR)
Date:  Thursday, 6 August
Time:  14:00 (Zurich) – 8:00 (New York)
Speaker:  Norovard ARUSTAMYAN & Roman PAVLOV
Language:  Russian
Target Audience:  National and International Referees & National Coaches
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/91676038879

Title:  Active Wrestling and Criteria for Passive Wrestling (GR)
Date:  Thursday, 6 August
Time:  16:00 (Zurich) – 10:00 (New York)
Speaker:  Kamel BOUAZIZ
Language:  French
Target Audience:  National and International Referees & National Coaches
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/96696325344

Title:  Active Wrestling and Criteria for Passive Wrestling (GR)
Date:  Thursday, 6 August
Time:  18:00 (Zurich) – 12:00 (New York)
Speaker:  Carlos GARCIA & Abraham GALVA
Language:  Spanish
Target Audience:  National and International Referees & National Coaches
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/94714591491

Title:  Controlling the Bout - Referees
Date:  Friday, 7 August
Time:  17:00 (Zurich) – 11:00 (New York)
Speaker:  Carlos GARCIA
Language:  Spanish
Target Audience:  National and International Referees
Zoom link:  https://zoom.us/j/99788891015

Title:  Basic Point Scoring
Date:  Saturday, 8 August
Time:  16:00 (Zurich) – 10:00 (New York)
Speaker:  Kamel BOUAZIZ & Sherif HALAWA
Language:  Arabic
Target Audience:  National and International Coaches
Zoom link:  https://zoom.us/j/91930064452

 

Saitiev, three-time Olympic champion, passes away aged 49

Sunday, March 2, 2025 - 17:40 By United World Wrestling Press

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CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (March 2) -- Wrestling legend, three-time Olympic gold medalist and six-time world champion Buvaisar SAITIEV passed away Sunday. He was 49 years old and nine days short of his 50th birthday.

Saitiev was buried in the village of Novokuli in the Novolaksky district of Dagestan on Tuesday, March 4.

Saitiev, widely considered the best Freestyle wrestler of all time, was born in Dagestan but moved to Krasnoyarsk, Siberia to train at the Mindiashvili wrestling academy under the legendary coach Dmitri Mindiashvili.

The 49-year-old announced his retirement soon after winning his third Olympic title in Beijing 2008. His other two titles came in 1996 Atlanta Olympics and 2004 Athens Olympics. In 2000 Sydney Olympics, Brandon SLAY (USA) defeated him.

Apart from the world and Olympic titles, Saitiev was six-time European champion.

 

United World Wrestling President Nenad LALOVIC expressed his shock on the untimely passing of Saitiev.

"The wrestling family is in shock with the passing of Saitiev," Lalovic said. "He was a legend of the sport and we lost him at a very young age of 49. Saitiev inspired wrestlers around the world and many took up the sport because of him. It's an unrepairable loss to the wrestling community and we are with the Saitiev family during this time of grief."

In 2007, Saitiev was awarded as the best Freestyle wrestler in history by UWW [then FILA].

Wrestling majorly in the 74kg weight class, Saitiev stood at 183 centimetres and made his World Championships debut in Atlanta, 1995. A year later, he won the gold medal at 74kg at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

He became world champion in 1997 and 1998 but did not participate in 1999. He lost to Slay in early rounds of the 2000 Sydney Olympics and finished ninth.

But he captured the gold medals again at the 2001 and 2003 World Championships and returned to the top at the 2004 Athens Olympics. He became the world champion in 2005 and 2006 and claimed his third Olympic gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Games.