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#WrestleOslo Day Six Finals Preview

Thursday, October 7, 2021 - 14:43 By Eric Olanowski

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Thursday’s final session of women’s wrestling features Olympic champion Helen MAROULIS ?? and Olympic bronze medal winner Meerim ZHUMANAZAROVA ??. Anshu ANSHU ?? and Zhamila BAKBERGENOVA ?? have a shot at becoming the first WW world champs from their countries.

The gold-medal matches kickoff at 18:00 (local time) and can be followed live on www.uww.org.

Day Six Finals Matchups:
57kg - Helen Louise MAROULIS ?? vs. Anshu ANSHU ??
59kg - Akie HANAI ?? vs. Bilyana DUDOVA ??
68kg - Rin MIYAJI ?? vs. Meerim ZHUMANAZAROVA ??
72kg - Zhamila BAKBERGENOVA ?? vs. Masako FURUICHI??

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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.’