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Women's Wrestling: 2024 Paris Olympic Games Qualified Nations

Wednesday, September 27, 2023 - 11:20 By United World Wrestling Press

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PARIS, France -- A total of 288 wrestlers will qualify for the Paris Olympics 2024 in 18 weight classes. The qualification is a three-stage process beginning with the World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.

The World Championships offers five quotas for each of the 18 Olympic categories -- a total of 90 quotas. Wrestlers who earn gold, silver or bronze will earn a spot for their countries. Additionally, the losers of the bronze-medal matches will wrestle in a playoff to determine the fifth allocation in Belgrade.

Japan was the only country to qualify for all six weight classes in Women's Wrestling at the World Championships. The United States was second best with three spots for Paris. Mongolia, Moldova and Kyrgyzstan won two spots each from the World Championships while 13 other countries won one spot each.

One Individual Neutral Athlete and one quota for the Indian Olympic Association were also earned in Belgrade.

Here's the list of all the Paris Olympics-qualified nations in Women's Wrestling:

Women's Wrestling

50kg
Japan (Yui SUSAKI)
Mongolia (Otgonjargal DOLGORJAV)
China (Ziqi FENG)
United States (Sarah HILDEBRANDT)
Turkiye (Evin DEMIRHAN)
Colombia (Alisson CARDOZO REY)
Cuba (Yusneylis GUZMAN LOPEZ)
Egypt (Nada MOHAMED)
Algeria (Ibtissem DOUDOU)

53kg
Japan (Akari FUJINAMI)
Vanesa KALADZINSKAYA as Individual Neutral Athlete
ANTIM for Indian Olympic Association
Ecuador (Lucia YEPEZ)
Sweden (Jonna MALMGREN)
United States (Dominique PARRISH)
Venezuela (Betzabeth AGUELLO)
Nigeria (Christianah OGUNSANYA)
Guam (Mia AQUINO)

57kg
Japan (Tsugumi SAKURAI)
Moldova (Anastasia NICHITA)
United States (Helen MAROULIS)
Nigeria (Odunayo ADEKUOROYE)
Poland (Anhelina LYSAK)
Canada (Hannah TAYLOR)
Ecuador (Luisa VALVERDE)
Algeria (Chaimaa AOUISSI)
Guam (Rckaela AQUINO)

62kg
Kyrgyzstan (Aisuluu TYNYBEKOVA)
Japan (Sakura MOTOKI)
Norway (Grace BULLEN)
Ukraine (Iryna KOLIADENKO)
Germany (Luisa NIEMESCH)
United States (Kayla MIRACLE)
Canada (Ana GODINEZ)
Nigeria (Esther KOLAWOLE)
Tunisia (Siwar BOUSETA)

68kg
Turkiye (Buse TOSUN)
Mongolia (Delgermaa ENKHSAIKHAN)
Moldova (Irina RINGACI)
France (Koumba LARROQUE)
Japan (Ami ISHII)
Venezuela (Soleymi CARABALLO)
United States (Amit ELOR)
Nigeria (Blessing OBORUDUDU)
New Zealand (Tayla FORD)

76kg
Japan (Yuka KAGAMI)
Kyrgyzstan (Aiperi MEDEY KYZY)
United States (Adeline GRAY)
Colombia (Tatiana RENTERIA)
Cuba (Milaimys MARIN)
Canada (Justina DI STASIO)
Ecuador (Genesis REASCO)
Nigeria (Hannah RUEBEN)
Tunisia (Zaineb SGHAIER)

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UWW Training PE Teachers at ISF Gymasiade in Bahrain

Monday, December 2, 2024 - 12:18 By United World Wrestling Press

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Bahrain (December 2) – United World Wrestling partnered with the International School Sports Federation (ISF) to train PE teachers at the ISF Gymnasiade in Bahrain. The ISF Gymnasiade event took place from 23-31 October. This annual event involves competitions for sport school athletes over 26 sports. Wrestling has been a part of this event in each edition. During the Gymnasiade, ISF also provides training to local PE teachers to potentially implement more sports within their curriculum.

UWW was fortunate to be able to provide training sessions to the PE teachers on using the Wrestle4Fun curriculum. The training was led by UWW Educators Ahmed Khedhri (TUN) and Rafael Galva (PUR).

The training was held on 25 October and included 51 participants. The training included 2-hour theoretical and 2-hour practical sessions, with participants actively participating in Wrestle4Fun activities. These activities provided the participants with the advantages of adding wrestling to physical education. “Collaborating with PE teachers provided a very valuable experience. I hope this experience will become more common, allowing wrestling to be part of the physical education curriculum,” said Mr. Khedhri.

Mr. Galva also participated in the ISF International Educational Forum. During the forum, Mr. Galva discussed Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle to School Kids. He also spoke about the importance of positive role modeling from parents and coaches. 

ISFParticipants go through the Fun and Skills Zone at the ISF Gymnasiade in Bahrain. (Photo: United World Wrestling)

Mr. Galva and Mr. Khedhri also conducted sessions at the Fun and Skills Zone throughout the event. This was a chance for young athletes to try wrestling games and activities. This included athletes from many different sports and countries.

The wrestling competition was held on October 28-30 and included participation in all three styles. The competition had 321 athletes from 18 countries participating. 

Wrestle4Fun is developmentally appropriate for all age levels and designed to support girls’ and boys’ physical literacy journeys. It has five stages based on different developmental levels. Each stage has 15 lessons. In total, there are 75 lessons with over 200 games and activities. The entire Wrestle4Fun programme can be found on the Academy platform.

The UWW Academy can be found at https://academy.uww.org/.