COLORADO SPRINGS, CO — The United States Olympic Committee today announced the finalists for the Team USA Awards presented by Dow, Best of August, which recognize the outstanding achievements of Team USA athletes from last month. Wrestling is nominated in all three categories: world champion Kyle Snyder (male), world champion Helen Maroulis (female) and the […]
Category: World championships
Weighing In with Mason Manville-Edit
He’s listed at 75kg for Bill Farrell I had a lengthy conversation with Mason Manville today. Mason is currently training at the Olympic Training Center (OTC) in Colorado Springs. He will be competing in the 80KG weight class at the non-Olympic weight World Team Trials in Greco Roman. I’ve talked to Mason a few times […]
Wrestling Enjoys Record Viewership for World Champ’s, 108 Athletes Qualify Spots for Olympic Games
By Tim Foley September 28, 2015 CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (September 28) – The numbers are in and the 2015 Wrestling World Championships, which wrapped earlier this month in Las Vegas, were the most-viewed non-Olympic event in the sport’s history. The competition drew a record-smashing million visitors to the United World Wrestling website with more than 16 […]
Observations about the World Championships
1. American wrestling fans are getting more information, knowledge, exposure and interest in International wrestling styles. United World Wrestling improved some of the rules, improved their website and coverage of events and have taken to social media to change their image and share information with American wrestling fans. Granted their website went down on the […]
Final Freestyle World Championship Results-2015
Team Results 1. Russia 61 2. Iran 48 3. Georgia 44 4. Mongolia 41 5. Azerbaijan 39 6. Turkey 33 7. USA 29 8. Bulgaria 23 9. Ukraine 20 10. India 14 11. Kazakhstan 13 12. Uzbekistan 12 13. Japan 11 14. Belarus 10 14 Italy 10 16. Armenia 8 17. France 7 18. North […]
World Championship Results- Women’s Freestyle
Placement Matches: 48kg Gold: #1-Eri Tosaka (JPN) dec. #2-Mariya Stadnyk (AZE), 3-2 48kg Bronze: Jessica Blaszka (NED) dec. Hui Li (CHN), 5-5 48kg Bronze: #7-Genevieve Morrison (CAN) vs. #6-Valentina Islamova (RUS), 4-2 Semifinal Results 48kg: #2-Mariya Stadnyk (AZE) fall. Hui Li (CHN) 48kg: #1-Eri Tosaka (JPN) dec. #7-Genevieve Morrison (CAN), 6-4 Quarterfinal Results 48kg: Hui […]
World Championship Greco Roman Results- Final
Greco Roman Results Team Scores 1. Russia 46 2.Azerbaijan 39 3. Ukraine 35 4. Iran 31 5. Kazakhstan 23 6. Belarus 21 7. Germany 20 7. Kyrgyzstan 20 7. Turkey 20 10. Cuba 19 11. Armenia 18 12. Hungary 17 12. South Korea 17 12. USA 17 15. Georgia 12 16. Croatia 10 17. Bulgaria […]
Links for Live Wrestling UWW Championships in Vegas
Can you imagine ESPN going down the day of the Super Bowl? Fox Sports going down during a UFC fight? Shockingly, the United World Wrestling website is down the first day of their World Championships. Even startup Flo wrestling has a better record. Geez, no wonder the sport is teettering on the edge of Olympic […]
Some thoughts on Team USA & Senior World Championship Schedule
I see the over under for Team USA at 6 medals. If Greco Roman gets 2 it’s an over performance. I see Women’s freestyle with the highest expectations, 3 medals is the prediction. Men’s Freestyle is the wild card; 2 Medals would be an achievement for this team. The loss of Tervel Dlagnev to injury […]
Junior World Freestyle Wrestling Championships Results
Most Americans expected Lee to at least medal. t’s the way that he took the gold! Total dominating his way through the tournament. Impressive, to say the very least. Does this result make him more coveted than Mark Hall? I say Yes. 50kg:Placement matches GOLD: Spencer Lee (USA) tf. Alireza Goodarzi (IRI), 10-0 BRONZE: Arif […]
Azerbaijan Crowns 2 Women Champs at Junior Worlds & Team USA Results
Women’s Freestyle 44kg: Placement Match Results GOLD: Turkan NASIROVA (AZE) df. Rina OKUNO (JPN), 5-2 BRONZE: Kseniya STANKEVICH (BLR) df. Svetlana ANKICHEVA (KAZ), 9-2 BRONZE: Nadezhda SARAZHKOVA (RUS) df. Naiyeis GUTIERREZ (VEN) by TF, 10-1 51kg: Placement Match Results GOLD: Leyla GURBANOVA (AZE) df. Olena KREMZER (UKR), 10-7 BRONZE: Arianna CARIERI (ITA) df. Marina ZUYEVA […]
Greco-Roman Junior World Championships Medal Results & American Results
Georgia continued their dominance of the Junior World Wrestling Championships Wednesday, winning a pair of Greco-Roman gold medals in the night’s finals to up their tournament tally to four gold. Georgia finished the tournament with four champions out of a total of five finalists. Georgia has been a wrestling powerhouse for decades but the Soviet […]
Jr. Worlds Blog – Crazy travel challenges kick off U.S. Greco trip to Brazil
BY GARY ABBOTT, USA WRESTLING | AUG. 08, 2015, 4:56 P.M. (ET) Friday, August 7/Saturday August 8- The wrestling community is getting excited that we are just a month away from the start of the Senior World Championships in Las Vegas on September 7. Training camps are entering their final phases, and the buzz is […]
