Wrestling UWW World Championships 2017

[OlympicsFan 860]

Wow ... i come home from work just to see two german guys in the fight for gold!

Amazing, are those olympic weight categories?

[dareza 911]

  On 8/21/2017 at 7:06 PM, OlympicsFan said:

Wow ... i come home from work just to see two german guys in the fight for gold!

Amazing, are those olympic weight categories?

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71kg not, 85kg yes.

[OlympicsFan 860]

  On 8/21/2017 at 7:11 PM, dareza said:

 

71kg not, 85kg yes.

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So Stäbler won in a weak category? Isnt he good enough to compete in -66 kg?

[merlinsbeard 22]

Başar (Turkey) has won the gold in 85 kg. I was not expecting him to win but I am not too hapy about this gold since grekoroman is still very boring and uncertain when you think about the rules. You can win the gold without a play which does not make any sense to me. Wrestling (especially the traditional Turkish Wrestling) is all about making plays and taking the competitor down. Clearly, this has not been happening in greko for a long time.

Edited August 21, 2017 by merlinsbeard

[MHSN 3,661]

  On 8/21/2017 at 7:19 PM, OlympicsFan said:

So Stäbler won in a weak category? Isnt he good enough to compete in -66 kg?

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Don't worry about that, UWW wll change the weight classes completely after this tournament. in one of their proposals, 70kg will be an Olympic weight,  i can't remember the other proposal right now.

 

and wrestling is not like Rowing or Canoeing when non-Olympic events have less importance, the importance is 100% the same as Olympic weights, except the year before the Olympics which is an Olympic qualifier.

 

and 71kg was a strong competition, that was a well deserved world title for Stabler. so many 66kg wrestlres moved up weight after the Olympics, btoh Rio bronze medalists among them Chunayev and Bolkvadze.

 

[MHSN 3,661]

so 3 bronze medals at the end of the day. actually that was a good result. with a bit more luck and better officiating we could have won 2 gold medals today. but I'm glad our Greco-Roman is still alive. we have 6 debutantes this year.most of our top wrestlers retied after the Olympics and I wasn't sure we even can win a single bronze here.

 

our tomorrow draw is much better but the problem is our wrestlers are much weaker tomorrow ! I don't expect a medal except for Ghaderian at 80kg maybe.

 

interesting point, no medal for Azerbaijan , from what I heard they are in deep financial trouble. looks like they can't even pay their coaches !

[De_Gambassi 1,225]

Yesterday, on french TV, it was said there is one million wrestlers in Iran. @MHSN and others, is there any truth in that number ?

Edited August 22, 2017 by De_Gambassi

[EselTheDonkey 825]

I can't believe my eyes. Gold and Silver on day 1 for Germany in wrestling.

[dareza 911]

Russian GR team is joke lol. What a debacle

[phelps 7,847]

Greco-Roman Wrestling, -59Kg

 

Semifinals:

Kenichiro Fumita (JPN) b. Kanibek Zholchubekov (KGZ)

Mirambek Ainagulov (KAZ) b. Seung Hak Kim (KOR)

 

 

Greco-Roman Wrestling, -66Kg

 

Semifinals:

Han Su Ryu (KOR) b. Artem Surkov (RUS)

Mateusz Lucjan Bernatek (POL) b. Mohammad Hossein Elyasi (IRI)

 

 

Greco-Roman Wrestling, -80Kg

 

Semifinals:

Radzik Kuliyeu (BLR) b. Elvin Mursaliyev (AZE)

Maksim Manukyan (ARM) b. Zurabi Datunashvili (GEO)

 

 

Greco-Roman Wrestling, -130Kg

 

Semifinals:

Riza Kayaalp (TUR) b. Oscar Pino Hinds (CUB)

Heiki Nabi (EST) b. Yasmani Acosta Fernadez (CHI)