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WATCH: 10 freestyle finals from European Championships

Thursday, May 11, 2023 - 12:22 By Vinay Siwach

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ZAGREB, Croatia (May 11) -- The European Championships in Zagreb gave wrestling fans epic bouts from day one. The continent's freestyle stars fought for the top honors and it was a neck-to-beck battle for supremacy.

Azerbaijan, Turkiye and Armenia won two gold medals each in the competition and Ukraine, Greece, Georgia, and Slovakia took home a gold medal each.

Relive the action from the 10 gold medal bouts of the freestyle competition at the European Championships

GOLD: 57kg - Aliabbas RZAZADE (AZE) vs. Suleyman ATLI (TUR)

GOLD: 61kg - Arsen HARUTYUNYAN (ARM) vs. Zelimkhan ABAKAROV (ALB)

GOLD: 65kg - Vazgen TEVANYAN (ARM) vs. Mikyay NAIM (BUL)

GOLD: 65kg - Haji ALIYEV (AZE) vs. Ramazan RAMAZANOV (BUL)

GOLD: 74kg - Taimuraz SALKAZANOV (SVK) vs. Frank CHAMIZO (ITA)

GOLD: 79kg - Vasyl MYKHAILOV (UKR) vs. Georgios KOUGIOUMTSIDIS (GRE)

GOLD: 86kg - Dauren KURUGLIEV (GRE) vs. Myles AMINE (SMR)

GOLD: 92kg - Feyzullah AKTURK (TUR) vs. Osman NURMAGOMEDOV (AZE)

GOLD: 97kg - Givi MATCHARASHVILI (GEO) df. Magomedkhan MAGOMEDOV (AZE)

GOLD: 125kg - Taha AKGUL (TUR) vs. Geno PETRIASHVILI (GEO)

Development

Advanced Beach Wrestling Course Now Available on UWW Academy

Wednesday, August 21, 2024 - 11:59 By United World Wrestling Press

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CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (August 21) -- Beach Wrestling continues to grow around the world.  Each year more and more federations are introducing the style and competing at the events.  In 2023, UWW launched their first Beach Wrestling course on the UWW Academy.  UWW is excited to now launch their second Beach Wrestling course titled “Advanced Beach Wrestling Course: Rules – Training – Referees.”  This course goes more in-depth on those three areas and is divided into 6 separate modules.  Those modules include: The Bout, Scoring, Illegal Actions and Negative Wrestling, Beach Wrestling vs Olympic Styles, Strategies and Preparation for Training, and Referees – Roles and Responsibilities. 

This course is very interactive and provides a more detailed understanding of Beach Wrestling. Please check out the course on the UWW Academy.  https://academy.uww.org/

The UWW Academy is the official educational site for United World Wrestling. The Academy is an all-encompassing online portal designed to educate, provide information, necessary learning tools and resources to be able to assist different stakeholders and enhance the knowledge and value of wrestling. Access to the Academy and all its resources are free. Registration only requires a working email to confirm your account. UWW encourages all stakeholders to get registered and utilize all of the free resources.