Team USA went into the World Championships with a strong team and high expectations. Four wrestlers scored zero team points. You can’t win a world championship starting off like that. Pat Downey had a better tournament than most expected. Guessing that he’s not homeless. I know that there were some very tough brackets, but […]
Category: freestyle wrestling news
Denis Tsargush, RUS Goes Down vs Magomed Khizriev, RUS
65kg Logan Stieber (USA) VS Soslan Ramonov (RUS)
Spanish Grand Prix Results- The United States won the team title in men’s freestyle with 6 Golds
GRAND PRIX OF SPAIN At Madrid, Spain, June 11 This wasn’t the deepest field of wresters but it was good to the Americans travel and do well. Men’s freestyle place winners. 57kg Gold – Kim Sung Gwon (Korea) Silver – Rinya Nakamura (Japan) Bronze – Yun Junsik (Korea) Bronze – Amin Nouri (Iran) 61kg Gold […]
Large U.S. Team Entered for Spanish Grand Prix- Brackets & Link to free webcast
webcast link Brackets SPANISH GRAND PRIX At Madrid, Spain, July 11 Event Schedule (Madrid time, which is 6 hours ahead of U.S. Eastern Time) Saturday, July 11 All styles, All weight classes 9:00 a.m. – Preliminaries 1:00 p.m. – Semifinals and Repechage 5:00 p.m. – Finals (1st place, 3rd place, 5th place) A totally stud […]
6 Americans Ranked in July UWW Freestyle Rankings
4 Americans dropped out of the rankings from last month, including Jake Herbert and Nick Marable. It’s hard to believe that Kyle Snyder isn’t ranked. #15 57 kg – Tony Ramos, Iowa City, Iowa (Titan Mercury WC/Hawkeye WC) #5 66kg – Brent Metcalf, Iowa City, Iowa (New York AC/Hawkeye WC) #16 70 kg – Dustin […]
United World Wrestling Implements Scoring Improvements for Freestyle
By United World Wrestling Press July 9, 2015 – 13:39 CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (July 8) – United World Wrestling has announced a handful of scoring modifications for freestyle and women’s wrestling. The reforms follow the recent success of similar changes in Greco-Roman wrestling. The revisions state that all turns are now two points regardless of where […]
Junior National Freestyle Duals Team Results
At Tulsa, Okla. Gold/Silver Results 1st Place – Oklahoma 2nd Place – Illinois 3rd Place – New Jersey 4th Place – Minnesota 1 5th Place – Iowa 1 6th Place – Michigan 1 7th Place – Utah 8th Place – Arizona CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH – Oklahoma 37, Illinois 28 220 Andrew Marsden (Illinois) over Kyler Childers […]
Russian Gold Rush at European Juniors
by William May more here more here55kg (18 entries) Gold – Ibragim ILYASOV (RUS) df. Salim NAIM MIKYAY (BUL) by TF, 11-0, 2:51 Bronze – Sezgin PISMICOGLU (TUR) df. Andrii YATSENKO (UKR), 10-8 Bronze – Igor CHICHIOI (MDA) df. Grand KARAPETJAN (ESP), 8-1 66kg (23 entries) Gold – Enes USLU (TUR) df. Surkho RASHITKHANOV (BLR), […]
2015 Senior World Team Trials Results- Day 2 Final
Best-of-Three Championship Finals 61kg: #1- Reece Humphrey, NYAC techfall over Dan Dennis, Titan Mercury, 12-1. Humphrey is on a different level. #2- Reece Humphrey, NYAC decision over Dan Dennis, Titan Mercury, 4-1. Nice dance moves too. 65kg: #1- Brent Metcalf, NYAC decision over Jordan Oliver, Sunkist Kids, 9-4. #2- Brent Metcalf, NYAC decision over Jordan […]
Seeds for U.S. World Team Trials on Sunday
61 kilos: Final Wrestle-off Qualifier 2015 U.S. Open champion- Reece Humphrey, Columbus, Ohio (New York AC) Trials Tournament Seeds 1. Kendric Maple, Norman, Okla. (New York AC) 2. Coleman Scott, Chapel Hill, N.C. (Sunkist Kids) 3. Daniel Dennis, Iowa City, Iowa (Titan Mercury WC) 4. Jon Morrison, Stillwater, Okla. (Titan Mercury WC) 5. Kyle Hutter, […]
2015 Senior World Team Trials Results-Day 1
Best-of-3 World Team Trials Finals: In order of appearance. 125kg: #1- Tervel Dlagnev, Sunkist Kids 2-1 over Zach Rey, LVAC. #2 Zach Rey, LVAC. decision over Tervel Dlagnev, Sunkist Kids 4-3. Finally a couple of attacks. Terrell’s first domestic lose in a long time. #3- Tervel Dlagnev, Sunkist Kids over Zach Rey, LVAC 3-0. 53kg: […]
2015 WORLD TEAM TRIALS SEEDS
USA Wrestling has released the Trials Tournament seeds set for the first day of competition at the U.S. World Team Trials, which begin at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wis. on Saturday. There are four weight classes in women’s freestyle and four weight classes in men’s freestyle being contested Saturday. 2015 U.S. Open champions […]