Odunayo ADEKUOROYE (NGR) and Blessing OBORUDUDU (NGR) improved on their top-three world rankings, as Nigerian women nabbed six African gold medals on Saturday night. Adekuoroye won her fifth consecutive African crown and overthrew Risako KAWAI (JPN) for the world’s…
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Artur ALEKSANYAN of Armenia returned to the mat for the first time since he suffered from rib injury during the Nur-Sultan world wrestling championships in 2019. Due to the injury 2016 Olympic champion Armenian had to settle for…
It’s no secret that ZHOU Feng (CHN) was the underdog coming into her Matteo Pellicone finals against reigning world champion Tamyra MENSAH (USA), and though she fell behind by eight points, she remained composed enough to erase an 8-0…
The Kuortane Olympic Training Centre in Kuortane, Finland, which serves as one of United World Wrestling’s High-Performance training centres, has added a new wrestling hall, which will be inaugurated in March, with a 1000m2 surface and new wrestling…
United World Wrestling has announced its Wrestler of the Year Award winners for 2019 as Frank CHAMIZO (ITA) in freestyle, Viktor LORINCZ (HUN) in Greco-Roman, and Tamyra MENSAH (USA) in women’s wrestling has been named the best wrestlers…
United World Wrestling joined the International Olympic Committee in the Sport Coalition for the Refugees during the Global Refugee Forum held in Geneva. Recognising the unique unifying power of sport, the IOC and the Olympic Refuge Foundation (ORF)…
UWW and ICSD will work together on the promotion of sports practice amid all deaf athletes, as well as the development of deaf women in sport. In addition, the organizations will work together to preserve sports against the…
United World Wrestling President Nenad Lalovic took part at the 8th Olympic Summit on Dec. 6-7 following the invitation sent by President of the IOC, Dr. Thomas Bach. Lalovic was invited to discuss current international sporting issues related…
CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (December 10) — The world’s oldest sport is showing signs that it could be among the most innovative. United World Wrestling has announced the implementation of a new draw process for competitions that includes the use…
CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (December 10) — United World Wrestling has announced a change in the format for Senior World Cup events. Senior World Cup events will now be held in November or early December of non-Olympic years. The events…