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Wrestle4Fun Gets an Update

By United World Wrestling Press

(VEVEY, Switzerland) July 15 –- The Wrestle4Fun programme has recently been updated on the UWW Academy platform. Wrestle4Fun is a physical education based curriculum that includes many activities and games to introduce the sport of wrestling to children. The programme can be used in physical education classes at schools or at local clubs.   

Wrestle4Fun is developmentally appropriate for all age levels and designed to support girls’ and boys’ physical literacy journey.  Wrestle4Fun has 5-stages based on different developmental levels.  Each stage has 15 lessons.  In total, there are 75 lessons with over 200 games and activities.

“As part of UWW sustainable future for our community, it was our duty to provide a programme to introduce wrestling to children and youth. Wrestle4Fun is key and fundamental toolkit for schools and clubs to implement wrestling worldwide as we pursue the growth of our beloved sport.” – UWW President Nenad Lalovic

The entire Wrestle4Fun programme was updated on the Academy platform.  The recent updates included making the lessons online more user-friendly, adding videos of all the games and activities into the lessons, and downloadable PDF’s that include links to the videos.    

The UWW Academy can found at https://academy.uww.org/. The Academy is an online learning portal designed to provide information, tools and resources to support and develop wrestling.  To access all the content including the Wrestle4Fun programme, please go to the website and create your free account. 

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UWW 2023 Women’s Wrestler of the Year Nominees

By United World Wrestling Press

CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (December 12) — United World Wrestling has released the five nominations for the 2023 Women’s Wrestler of the Year, which is awarded to the best senior-level women’s wrestler.

The nominations reflect the results from this year’s World Championships, Continental Championships, Continental Games and Ranking Series events.

 
The five finalist are:

Aisuluu TYNYBEKOVA (KGZ)
- 62kg world champion  
- Asian Championships gold medalist 
- Hungarian Ranking Series champion  
- Egypt Ranking Series champion 
- 19th Asian Games bronze medalist  
- Ranked No. 1 in the world with 95,575 points

Yui SUSAKI (JPN)
- 50kg world champion  
- Zagreb Open Ranking Series champion 
- Ranked No. 2 in the world with 58,000 points 

Akari FUJINAMI (JPN)
- 53kg world champion  
- Asian Championships gold medalist 
- 19th Asian Games Champion 
- Zagreb Open Ranking Series champion 
- Ranked No. 2  in the world with 81,000 points 

Amit ELOR (USA)
- 72kg senior world champion  
- U23 world champion 
- U20 world champion  
- Pan-American Championships gold medalist  
- Ranked No. 2 in the world with 50,000 points

Buse TOSUN (TUR)
- 2023 68kg world champion 
- 2023 European silver medalist 
- Ranked No.3  in the world with 50,505 points