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#WrestleOslo Day Seven Finals Preview

Friday, October 8, 2021 - 17:52 By Eric Olanowski

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Friday night’s finals will be highlighted by two-time Olympic champion Roman VLASOV (RWF) who will wrestle for 77kg gold and Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist Rafig HUSEYNOV ?? who will compete in the 82kg finals.

The gold-medal matches kick off at 18:00 (local time) and can be followed live on www.uww.org.

Day Seven Finals Matchups:
55kg - Emin SEFERSHAEV (RWF) vs. Ken MATSUI ??
72kg - Sergei KUTUZOV (RWF) vs. Malkhas AMOYAN ??
77kg - Sanan SULEYMANOV ?? vs. Roman VLASOV (RWF)
82kg - Rafig HUSEYNOV ?? vs. Burhan AKBUDAK ??

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Al Awamleh elected UWW Asia president

Monday, March 24, 2025 - 17:15 By United World Wrestling Press

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AMMAN, Jordan (March 23) -- Mohamad AL-AWAMLEH, the president of the Jordan Wrestling Federation, was elected as the president of United World Wrestling Asia at the General Assembly held on the sidelines of the Asian Championships 2025.

The election for new UWW Asia council was held Monday for seven members. 14 nominations were received for the same and 38 national federations participated in the elections.

Four out of the seven are newly elected:

Mohamad AL-AWAMLEH (JOR)
Alireza DABIR (IRI)
Lana KHDOUR (PLE)
Sanjay SINGH (IND)

Three members were re-elected:

Kenneth LEE (KOR)
Melis TURGANBAEV (KGZ)
Ye ZHANG (CHN)

After the elections, the council members elected the president, vice-president and secretary general for UWW Asia.

Al-Awamleh as elected as the president while Dabir was elected as the vice-president of UWW Asia.

Lee, who was the vice-president in the previous term, was elected as the secretary general of UWW Asia for the next four years.