#Webinar

Beach Wrestling Webinar Schedule

Friday, October 2, 2020 - 13:47 By United World Wrestling Press

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Different subjects will be covered during this webinar. The main objectives of this webinar will be the following :

  • Learning the competition system for beach wrestling
  • Knowing the ranking criteria within a group
  • Understanding the evaluation of technical actions
  • Explaining special situations

Topic: Beach Wrestling - English
Date:  Thursday, 8 October
Time:  14:00 - Zurich (UTC+2)
Speaker: Rui Marta and Stilianos Kanidis
Language:  English
Meeting Link: https://zoom.us/j/99093632254

Topic: Beach Wrestling - French
Date:  Friday, 9 October
Time:  10:00 - Zurich (UTC+2)
Speaker: Carlos Garcia
Language:  French
Meeting Link: https://zoom.us/j/91594618062

Topic: Beach Wrestling - Spanish
Date:  Friday, 9 October
Time:  18:00 - Zurich (UTC+2)
Speaker: Rui Marta and Carlos Garcia
Language:  Spanish
Meeting Link: https://zoom.us/j/93207589651

#WrestleTokyo

Al Obaidi of IOC Refugee Team Makes Winning Olympic Debut at Tokyo 2020

Tuesday, August 3, 2021 - 04:37 By Tim Foley

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CHIBA, Japan (August 3) --- Aker AL OBAIDI (EOR) of the IOC's Refugee team earned the first victory in his Olympic career Tuesday morning at the Makuhari Messe Hall in Chiba.

Al Obaidi, an Iraqi refugee now living and training in Austria, looked superb in his first round 67kg weight class match besting Souleymen NASIR (TUN) by technical fall, 8-0.

"I felt really good in the bout," said Al Obaidi. "My wrestling was good and my mind and body were working perfectly together."

In his second match, Al Obaidi dropped the quarterfinal against Ramaz ZOIDZE (GEO), 10-0. Should Zoidze win his semifinal match on Tuesday night, Al Obaidi will compete in the repechage.

"I am disappointed, but I will go step-by-step. I don't have enough words to thank UWW and the IOC. I am really happy to compete and that was because of them. I am very young and I look forward to competing for a long time."