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UWW Academy Releases '22 Rule Modifications Breakdown Videos

Tuesday, March 15, 2022 - 14:01 By United World Wrestling Press

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CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (March 15) – UWW Academy, the official educational learning platform for coaches, referees and athletes, released a new course on the 2022 Rule Modifications. The Referee Commission has created a new online course over this year's rule modifications.  This course will focus on the changes that occurred in the articles.

Rule Modifications:
Article 27 – Interrupting the Bout
Article 32 – Challenge
Article 45 – Par Terre Position during the Bout
Article 47 – Enforcement of Passivity & Activity Time in U15, U17, Veterans
Article 49 – Fleeing the Hold
Article 50 – Fleeing the Mat

The short videos covering each of the articles along with video examples from matches can be found on the Academy platform at https://academy.uww.org. At the end of the course, there will be a short assessment to check for understanding of the new modifications.

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UWW hosts pre-Belgrade Worlds training camp

Monday, October 2, 2023 - 11:31 By United World Wrestling Press

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DIVCIBARE, Serbia (October 2) --- United World Wrestling, together with the support of the Olympic Solidarity Sports Development Unit - Athletes and Sport Development Division via the Youth Athletes Development – International Federation Training Opportunity, organized a ten-day acclimatization camp before the first of six qualification events for the Paris Olympic Games from September 5-15, in Divcibare, Serbia.

Over 130 athletes and coaches from 50 nations participated in this year’s training camp and the UWW Technical Assistance for Competitions program.

SRBWrestlers who attended the training camp warm up for practice with a friendly game of basketball. (Photo: United World Wrestling)

‘We understand the importance of this competition and the financial difficulties our federations are facing with the worldwide inflation. At United World Wrestling, we always have our athletes at heart and try to support them as much as we can, to be fair to everyone to have an equal chance to take part in the 1st Paris Olympic Games Qualifier for wrestling, to help them on their first step towards achieving their Olympic dreams,' said Deqa NIAMKEY, UWW Development Director. ‘We had a record-high number of athletes and coaches this year in our supporting program.’