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WATCH: 10 Greco-Roman finals from #WrestleBishkek

By Vinay Siwach

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (June 13) -- Iran brought some of its best Greco-Roman wrestlers to Bishkek for the third Ranking Series event and they did not disappoint, winning five gold medals in the tournament to finish at the top of the team rankings.

Georgian and Uzbekistan won two gold medals each while Kazakhstan won a single gold as well.

Watch all the 10 gold medal bouts from the third Ranking Series event here.

GOLD: 55kg - Marlan MUKASHEV (KAZ) vs. Ikhtiyor BOTIROV (UZB) 

GOLD: 67kg - Danial SOHRABI (IRI) vs. HUSIYUETU (CHN) 

GOLD: 97kg -  Mohammadhadi SARAVI (IRI) vs. Yiming LI (CHN) 

GOLD: 130kg - Amin MIRZAZADEH (IRI) vs. Oscar PINO (CUB) 

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UWW confirms Ranking Series, World Championships hosts for 2025

By United World Wrestling Press

CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (September 25) -- United World Wrestling has announced the World Championships and Ranking Series schedule for 2025.

UWW had earlier announced that the Senior World Championships will be held in Zagreb, Croatia from September 13-21. Here are the dates for the age-group World Championships.

U17 World Championships - Athens, Greece (July 28-3)
U20 World Championships - Bulgaria, Sofia (August 18-24)
U23 World Championships - Novi Sad, Serbia (October 20-26)
Veterans World Championships - Budapest, Hungary (October 7-12)

The calendar for the four Ranking Series tournaments for 2025 was also stamped by the Bureau which decided that the same cities will host the Ranking Series till 2027 in an attempt to further simplify the calendar.

Here are the four stops of the Ranking Series for seasons 2025:

1st Ranking Series - Zagreb, Croatia (February 5-9)
2nd Ranking Series - Tirana, Albania (February 26-March 2)
3rd Ranking Series - Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (May 29-June 1)
4th Ranking Series - Budapest, Hungary (July 17-20)

In the Olympic year 2028, only two Ranking Series will be held. The two hosts will be Zagreb, Croatia and Budapest, Hungary.

The host for the Asian Championships was also approved with Amman, Jordan confirmed to host the tournament from March 25 to 30.

The U17, U20 and Senior African Championships was already allotted to Casablanca, Morocco. However, the dates of the tournament have been changed to April 29 to May 4. The Senior Pan-Am Championships will now be held from May 6 to 9.

For a detailed 2025 calendar, visit uww.org/events.