#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

Obituary

Olympic champion Macha passes away

Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 09:40 By United World Wrestling Press

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CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (May 31) -- Olympic champion and United World Wrestling Hall of Fame member Vitezslav MACHA (CZE) passed away on May 29 aged 75.

Macha, born in 1948, was the only Olympic champion from the country as he won the gold medal in Greco-Roman 74kg weight class at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. He had defeated Petros GALAKTOPOULOS (GRE) in the final bout. At the next Olympics in 1976, Macha won a silver medal at the Montreal Games to become a two-time Olympic medalist.

In World Championships, Macha stood on the top of the podium twice -- 1974 in Poland and 1977 in Sweden. His European Championships record includes a gold medal at the 1977 edition and four other medals -- two silver and two bronze.

Macha last competed at the 1980 Olympic Games, finishing sixth, before moving into coaching and even holding the post of President of the Czech Wrestling Federation.

UWW expresses its deepest condolences to the Macha family.