Scientific Commission

Scientific Commission Meets in Slovakia

Tuesday, September 18, 2018 - 15:45 By United World Wrestling Press

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TRNAVA, Slovakia (September 18) -- The United World Wrestling Scientific Commission held a meeting this week during the Junior World Championships. Eight members of the commission took part in this important annual meeting and discussed a wide range of topics.

Commission chair Daulet TURLYKHANOV commenced the meeting and welcomed the participants as commission secretary David CURBY helped facilitate the discussion.

Key points discussed included advanced-level coaches further education, potential UWW scientific commission certified wrestling specific sports science programs and coaching courses, collaboration in building wrestling online research database, and the possibility of hosting an integrated wrestling symposium together with other UWW commissions prior to Tokyo Olympic Games.

The meeting concluded on a successful note with all participating members.

Pictured:

Front Row from left: Barna Tibor (HUN), Harold Tünnemann (GER), Lei Liang (CHN), David Curby (USA)Back Row from left: Mario Baić (CRO), Ioannis Barbas (GRE), Daulet Turlykhanov (KAZ), Celal Taskiran TUR), Didier Sauvaire (FRA)

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Women's Wrestling: 2024 Paris Olympic Games Qualified Nations

Wednesday, September 27, 2023 - 11:20 By United World Wrestling Press

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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)