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WATCH LIVE: U17 Pan-American Championships, Rio de Janeiro

By United World Wrestling Press

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (June 19) — The U17 Pan-American Championships will kick-off in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from Thursday at the CT Niteroi. The competition will be held on two mats.

Greco-Roman will be the first style that will begin at the U17 Pan-American Championships followed by Women’s Wrestling and then Freestyle. All bouts of Greco-Roman will be completed on Thursday. Women’s Wrestling will run on Friday and Freestyle on Saturday.

WATCH LIVE: MAT A and B

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Dittmann re-elected as European Council President

By United World Wrestling Press

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (April 6) — Karl Martin DITTMANN was re-elected as the President of the European Council at the election held Sunday on the sidelines of the European Championships in Bratislava.

The elections were held for the Executive Committee of the UWW-European Council for seven members and 11 nominations were received for the same. Four members were re-elected while three new members were added after they won the majority vote of at least 17 from total votes of 33.

Four re-elected members:

Razvan PIRCALABU (ROU)
Csilla ALI (HUN)
Karl-Martin DITTMANN (GER)
Georgy BRYUSOV (RUS)

Three newly elected members are:

Yusif ABBASOV (SRB)
Edisher MACHAIDZE (GEO)
Salvatore FINIZIO (ITA)

Pircalabu was also re-elected as the Vice-President and so was Ali who was re-elected as the Secretary of the council.

Onder YAKSI (TUR), who was the member of the European Council, was approved to be the co-opted member of the council at the general assembly.