#BurundiWrestling

Burundi Begins the Development Process of its National Sports System

By United World Wrestling Press

Following the agreement of Olympic Solidarity to grant the program of development of the structure to the Burundian wrestling federation. United World wrestling, through its development department headed by Madame Deqa Niamkey, has dispatched Vincent AKA, development officer, to carry out this program. This program will run for one year and will be carried out in three stages:

The first phase, taking place from November 31 to 8, 2021 made it possible to assess the situation of the fight in Burundi. The entire first phase also made it possible to train young coaches and to launch the phase of structuring wrestling clubs. Burundian level 1 coaches trained in 2019 by educator Juan Maren Delis were thus able to be contacted for the launch of this program.

Following this phase, the expert gave recommendations for the next step.

This first phase ended on a positive note because the expert was able to meet the President of the Burundian NOC and IOC member, Ms. NSEKERA Lydia, who is committed to supporting the wrestling development project in Burundi. The president also showed her willingness to help women's wrestling.

 

The second phase of the DNSS (from April 1 to 10, 2022): Intermediate evaluation regarding the recommendations and directives of the first phase, training of national technical officials. The training of these national technical officials will be based on an Olympic wrestling competition. At the end of this phase, the expert will also make recommendations for the third phase.

Phase 3 of the DNSS (1st to 10th November 2022): Final evaluation and Complete ‘Establishment of wrestling academies (Wrestle for fun, Beach Wrestling and Olympic value). In this phase will be organize the seminar for club presidents, general secretary, and treasurer. This final evaluation will also be followed by recommendations with regard to the terminal phase in order to allow sustainable development.

#WrestleSkopje

Watch Live: U17 European Championships, Skopje

By United World Wrestling Press

SKOKPJE, North Macedonia (June 9) -- The U17 European Championships will begin June 9 in Skopje, North Macedonia with more than 550 wrestlers registered in Freestyle, Women's Wrestling and Greco-Roman.

The competition will begin with Greco-Roman followed by Women's Wrestling and finishing with Freestyle. The full schedule can be accessed here.

WATCH LIVE: MAT A, B and C

Qualification and repechage rounds will begins 1030 hours local time and medal bouts will begin at 1800 hours local time. On June 9, as there is no repechage and medal bouts, semifinals will begin at 1800 hours. On June 15, Sunday, as there are no qualification bouts, the repechage will begin 1600 hours local time.

The live match order and results can be followed here. The full list of wrestlers entered from different countries is here. All brackets available here

For all photos, click here.