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WATCH: 10 women's wrestling finals from Asian Championships

Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 10:27 By Vinay Siwach

ASTANA, Kazakhstan (May 8) -- Japan once again showed why it is the most dominant country when it comes to women's wrestling. At the Asian Championships, Japan claimed five gold medals out of 10 to win the team title. China finished second while India came third. China and Kazakhstan won two gold medals each and Kyrgyzstan captured one.

Relive all the gold medal bouts from the women's wrestling at the Asian Championships.

GOLD: 50kg - Jasmina IMMAEVA (UZB) vs. Remina YOSHIMOTO (JPN)

GOLD: 53kg - ANTIM (IND) vs. Akari FUJINAMI (JPN)

GOLD: 55kg - Otgontuya CHINBOLD (MGL) vs. PANG Qianyu (CHN)

GOLD: 57kg - Laylokhon SOBIROVA (UZB) vs. Sae NANJO (JPN)

GOLD: 59kg - ZHUOMALAGA (CHN) vs. Yui SAKANO (JPN)

GOLD: 62kg - Orkhon PUREVDORJ (MGL) vs. Aisuluu TYNYBEKOVA (KGZ)

GOLD: 65kg - Jia LONG (CHN) vs. Mahiro YOSHITAKE (JPN)

GOLD: 68kg - Ami ISHII (JPN) vs. NISHA (IND)

GOLD: 72kg - Zhamila BAKBERGENOVA (KAZ) vs. Sumire NIIKURA (JPN)

GOLD: 76kg - Elmira SYZDYKOVA (KAZ) vs. Aiperi MEDET KYZY (KGZ)

Development

Advanced Beach Wrestling Course Now Available on UWW Academy

Wednesday, August 21, 2024 - 11:59 By United World Wrestling Press

CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (August 21) -- Beach Wrestling continues to grow around the world. Each year more and more federations are introducing the style and competing at the events. In 2023, UWW launched their first Beach Wrestling course on the UWW Academy. UWW is excited to now launch their second Beach Wrestling course titled “Advanced Beach Wrestling Course: Rules – Training – Referees.” This course goes more in-depth on those three areas and is divided into 6 separate modules. Those modules include: The Bout, Scoring, Illegal Actions and Negative Wrestling, Beach Wrestling vs Olympic Styles, Strategies and Preparation for Training, and Referees – Roles and Responsibilities.

This course is very interactive and provides a more detailed understanding of Beach Wrestling. Please check out the course on the UWW Academy. https://academy.uww.org/

The UWW Academy is the official educational site for United World Wrestling. The Academy is an all-encompassing online portal designed to educate, provide information, necessary learning tools and resources to be able to assist different stakeholders and enhance the knowledge and value of wrestling. Access to the Academy and all its resources are free. Registration only requires a working email to confirm your account. UWW encourages all stakeholders to get registered and utilize all of the free resources.