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WATCH: 10 women's wrestling from Egypt

Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 09:14 By Vinay Siwach

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (March 2) -- In the absence of Japan, Ukraine and China dominated the competition at the Ibrahim Moustafa Ranking Series event. Ukraine outplaced China with ease and will continue to battle for the second spot below Japan this year.

With more and more wrestlers moving into the Olympic weight classes, a few weight classes saw surprising results but some other stalwarts returned to form before the long season which also includes the World Championships.

GOLD: 50kg - Meng FAN (CHN) vs. Ziqi FENG (CHN)

GOLD: 53kg - Lucia YEPEZ (ECU) vs. Li DENG (CHN)

GOLD: 55kg - Bediha GUN (TUR) vs. Jacarra WINCHESTER (USA)

Semifinal: 57kg - Evelina NIKOLOVA (BUL) vs. Alexandria TOWN (CAN) [The gold medal bout between Town and Alina AKOBIIA (UKR) did not take place after the later pulled out injured]

GOLD: 59kg - Anastasia NICHITA (MDA) vs. Yuliia TKACH (UKR)

GOLD: 62kg - Aisuluu TYNYBEKOVA (KGZ) vs. Xiaojuan LUO (CHN)

Round 2: Emma BRUNTIL (USA) vs. Tetiana RIZHKO (UKR)

GOLD: 65kg - Koumba LARROQUE (FRA) vs. Forrest MOLINARI (USA)

GOLD: 72kg - Alina RUDNYTSKA LEVYTSKA (UKR) vs. Dalma CANEVA (ITA)

GOLD: 76kg - Juan WANG (CHN) vs. Kennedy Alexis BLADES (USA)

Development

Evaluation of Holds course now on the UWW Academy

Thursday, February 13, 2025 - 11:48 By United World Wrestling Press

COSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (February 13) --- The Development Department and Referee Commission launched their 2nd course centered around the rules of Olympic wrestling and refereeing. The course is entitled Evaluation of Holds and can be found on the UWW Academy. Participants will learn how the score is determined for various actions. During the course, they will focus on the 3 questions that referees must ask when an action occurs. The answers to those questions often determine the points that would be scored for an action. The course will also examine other scoring situations such as takedowns and correct holds. However, those topics will be covered in more detail in future courses.

The Evaluation of Holds course will begin with background information and the rules which include video examples. Then the course will provide 10 specific video examples along with explanations. Next the participants will practice their video analysis with 10 videos. The course will finish with a 15-video quiz. This is the same format as the Attack vs Counterattack course.

The UWW Academy is the official educational platform for United World Wrestling. There are numerous courses on coaching, referees, rules, sports administration and beach wrestling. There are also additional resources, performance analysis metrics from major UWW events, videos, and the Wrestle4Fun curriculum. The Academy is free and available to all participants.

To get started and create your free profile, please visit https://academy.uww.org/.