#kaspeuro2018

Live Notebook - European Championships (Day Three)

By Eric Olanowski

1:20 PM - That'll do it for the morning session on Day 3. We'll be back at 5:15 PM (local time) for the women's wrestling semifinals and the Greco-Roman finals. 

1:08 PM -  Ainztane GORRIA GONI (ESP) scores an early takedown and takes the 2-0 lead on 2017 silver medalist, Emilia Alina VUC (ROU). Vuc immediately comes up to her feet, hits a headlock and picks up the fall with just over a minute gone in the first period. 

12:52 PM -  Evin DEMIRHAN (TUR), U23 world champion trails Oksana LIVACH (UKR), 4-0 after the first minute of wrestling. Demirhan closed out the first period with three takedowns and takes the 6-5 lead into the second period. Livach headlocks Demirhan to her back and takes the 9-8 lead, but a late takedown for the Turk gives her the 10-9 victory. 

12:35 PM -  Mariya STADNIK (AZE), seven-time Euro champion is making her way to Mat C. Stadnik picks up back-to-back technical superiority victories. The second 10-0 victory came against Milana DADASHEVA (RUS) in just under three minutes. 

12:26 PM - Yasemin Adar, 2017 world champion leads 2015 world bronze medalist Epp MAE (EST), 4-0 after a feet to back single leg. Adar starts the second period with another thunderous four-point throw to take the 8-0 lead. Her snap-down-spin-behind gives her the 10-0 technical superiority victory. 

12:16 PM - Koumba LARROQUE (FRA), 2017 world bronze medalist is making her way to Mat C. Larroque's takedown in the first period gives her the 2-0 over Monika MICHALIK (POL) heading into the second period.  

12:09 PM - 50kg WW - Milana DADASHEVA (RUS) picks up the first fall of the day over Fatme MANDEVA (BUL). The Russian had a commanding 6-0  lead before throwing the Bulgarian to her back for the fall. 

12:00 PM - Yasemin ADAR (TUR)  2017 world champion and Olympic silver medalist, Mariya STADNIK (AZE) will be headlining the third day of wrestling. Stadnik has never suffered a defeat at a European Championship will be looking for her eighth European gold medal. 

Start of action
11:00 AM -  Qualification rounds for WW 50kg, 55kg, 59kg, 68kg, and 76kg
11:00 AM - Repechage for GR 60kg, 67kg, 72kg, 82kg, and 97kg

 

#WrestleParis

Women's Wrestling: 2024 Paris Olympic Games Qualified Nations

By United World Wrestling Press

PARIS, France -- A total of 288 wrestlers will qualify for the Paris Olympics 2024 in 18 weight classes. The qualification is a three-stage process beginning with the World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.

The World Championships offers five quotas for each of the 18 Olympic categories -- a total of 90 quotas. Wrestlers who earn gold, silver or bronze will earn a spot for their countries. Additionally, the losers of the bronze-medal matches will wrestle in a playoff to determine the fifth allocation in Belgrade.

Japan was the only country to qualify for all six weight classes in Women's Wrestling at the World Championships. The United States was second best with three spots for Paris. Mongolia, Moldova and Kyrgyzstan won two spots each from the World Championships while 13 other countries won one spot each.

One Individual Neutral Athlete and one quota for the Indian Olympic Association were also earned in Belgrade.

Here's the list of all the Paris Olympics-qualified nations in Women's Wrestling:

Women's Wrestling

50kg
Japan (Yui SUSAKI)
Mongolia (Otgonjargal DOLGORJAV)
China (Ziqi FENG)
United States (Sarah HILDEBRANDT)
Turkiye (Evin DEMIRHAN)
Colombia (Alisson CARDOZO REY)
Cuba (Yusneylis GUZMAN LOPEZ)
Egypt (Nada MOHAMED)
Algeria (Ibtissem DOUDOU)

53kg
Japan (Akari FUJINAMI)
Vanesa KALADZINSKAYA as Individual Neutral Athlete
ANTIM for Indian Olympic Association
Ecuador (Lucia YEPEZ)
Sweden (Jonna MALMGREN)
United States (Dominique PARRISH)
Venezuela (Betzabeth AGUELLO)
Nigeria (Christianah OGUNSANYA)
Guam (Mia AQUINO)

57kg
Japan (Tsugumi SAKURAI)
Moldova (Anastasia NICHITA)
United States (Helen MAROULIS)
Nigeria (Odunayo ADEKUOROYE)
Poland (Anhelina LYSAK)
Canada (Hannah TAYLOR)
Ecuador (Luisa VALVERDE)
Algeria (Chaimaa AOUISSI)
Guam (Rckaela AQUINO)

62kg
Kyrgyzstan (Aisuluu TYNYBEKOVA)
Japan (Sakura MOTOKI)
Norway (Grace BULLEN)
Ukraine (Iryna KOLIADENKO)
Germany (Luisa NIEMESCH)
United States (Kayla MIRACLE)
Canada (Ana GODINEZ)
Nigeria (Esther KOLAWOLE)
Tunisia (Siwar BOUSETA)

68kg
Turkiye (Buse TOSUN)
Mongolia (Delgermaa ENKHSAIKHAN)
Moldova (Irina RINGACI)
France (Koumba LARROQUE)
Japan (Ami ISHII)
Venezuela (Soleymi CARABALLO)
United States (Amit ELOR)
Nigeria (Blessing OBORUDUDU)
New Zealand (Tayla FORD)

76kg
Japan (Yuka KAGAMI)
Kyrgyzstan (Aiperi MEDEY KYZY)
United States (Adeline GRAY)
Colombia (Tatiana RENTERIA)
Cuba (Milaimys MARIN)
Canada (Justina DI STASIO)
Ecuador (Genesis REASCO)
Nigeria (Hannah RUEBEN)
Tunisia (Zaineb SGHAIER)