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U15, U17, U20 & Veteran Grappling World Championships in Greece

Friday, July 25, 2025 - 05:35 By United World Wrestling Press

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CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (July 25) -- The Grappling World Championships in four age-group categories will be held in Loutraki, Greece from November 1 to 4.

Wrestlers in U15, U17, U20 and Veteran categories will compete at the Grappling World Championships 2025. This competition will be held before the U15, U17 & U20 Pankration & Amateur MMA World Championships, scheduled for November 5 to 9) at the same venue.

UWW has already announced the senior Grappling World Championships, which will be held in Novi Sad, Serbia on October 15 and 16.

The detailed schedule of the U15, U17, U20 and Veteran Grappling World Championships will be available here. For all events, click uww.org/events.

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Dittmann re-elected as European Council President

Sunday, April 6, 2025 - 13:17 By United World Wrestling Press

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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (April 6) — Karl Martin DITTMANN was re-elected as the President of the European Council at the election held Sunday on the sidelines of the European Championships in Bratislava.

The elections were held for the Executive Committee of the UWW-European Council for seven members and 11 nominations were received for the same. Four members were re-elected while three new members were added after they won the majority vote of at least 17 from total votes of 33.

Four re-elected members:

Razvan PIRCALABU (ROU)
Csilla ALI (HUN)
Karl-Martin DITTMANN (GER)
Georgy BRYUSOV (RUS)

Three newly elected members are:

Yusif ABBASOV (SRB)
Edisher MACHAIDZE (GEO)
Salvatore FINIZIO (ITA)

Pircalabu was also re-elected as the Vice-President and so was Ali who was re-elected as the Secretary of the council.

Onder YAKSI (TUR), who was the member of the European Council, was approved to be the co-opted member of the council at the general assembly.