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Entries for the European Championships https://uww.org/article/wrestlewarsaw-european-cship-entries lots of big names here, some already qualified wrestlers but I think most of those who want to wrestle in Sofia and give themselves a realistic chance to qualify ( and cut a good amount of weight) preferred to stay home and prepare for the last chance tournament. interesting team from Russia, except Naifonov, none of their possible Olympic team athletes are wrestling here in the freestyle competition this confirms that Uguev, Rashidov, Sidakov and Sadulaev don't need to prove themselves anymore and most probably will go to Tokyo

Greco-Roman medal table 4-2-3 2-2-2 2-0-3 1-1-4 1-1-1 0-3-5 0-1-0 0-0-1 ------------------- women's competition starts tomorrow. interestingly we have 7 or less wrestlers in all 10 weights, which means no joint bronze medalists at all !

the 2nd day in Greco was totally different, both in term of results and the officiating, there is an unwritten rule in wrestling about not letting a country win more than certain number of gold medals and that rule was in full force today actually I was surprised with the level of officiating in Kazakhstan so far, specially during the Olympic qualifiers, not a single controversy, that's impossible in wrestling. looks like that was just an accident and they came back to their "normal" today. also I have to add that our wrestlers only have themselves to blame. despite all those bad calls, all 3 of them still could win their matches "easily" finalists for the 2nd day: 60: Sultangali vs Mohsennejad 67: Shimoyamada vs Kebispayev 72: Ryu vs Tsarev 82: Berdimuratov vs Asykeev 97: Bali vs Kim Iran is guaranteed the team title, still 2nd day was quite disappointing.

Iran finished the first day in Greco with 3 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze. Kazakhstan and Japan won the remaining gold medals. a bit disappointed for Dalkhani's defeat, but Alizadeh did good and beat 3 future Olympians on his way to the gold. all 3 wrestlers he beat today had won the Olympic quota before. this is the only weight in men's wrestling that Iran failed to qualify (thanks to Mr Nouri and his mistake) our coach made it clear that Nouri is out. we still have 3 other guys in this weight but I assume this kid Alizadeh now has the upper hand. I don't think he can qualify though but at least he is young and talented.

no. that one was moved to France (I mean the rest of the competition) that was about the last chance worldwide qualifier , which got cancelled and they awarded the quotas based on the ranking. (1 for each continent in each weight)

not necessarily, this European Qualifier will award ranking points as well. it's probably unlikely but maybe someone finishes just outside the qualification zone but still collects enough pts to qualify via ranking. someone should do the math to see if that's even possible mathematically.

good start for Iran at the star of the Greco-Roman competition here are the finalists: 55: Shiotani vs Bakhromov 63: Assetuly vs Dalkhani 77: Rezazade vs Poshtam 87: Alizadeh vs Azisbekov 130: Syzdykov vs Yousefi China isn't here and some countries didn't send some of their best wrestlers, but the level is still OK, for Iran, this is not our Olympic team but they did good in the first day, Poshtam was almost dead against Gurpreet Singh of India but somehow survived the match for a 7-7 win. for Alizadeh this is his first ever international competition but since Nouri failed to qualify the weight 4 days ago he will have a chance (to go to Bulgaria) if he wins the gold here.

I will make it simple I believe anybody from Iran in wrestling, Taekwondo, Weightlifting and Karate (men and women) will have a good chance for medal. average 50%. some of them much more. some of them much less. we have 11 quotas in wrestling, 2 in Taekwondo, probably (and hopefully) 2 in weightlifting, already 3 in Karate and I expect to qualify at least 2 more. that's 20 quotas 20/2 = 10 so my prediction is 10 medals.

I had that question too but I probably know the answer per rules only participating countries from the 2020 continental Champs were allowed to send wrestlers to the Olympic Qualifiers, (the same number they had in the Continental Ch) and Sri Lanka didn't send a wrestler to the 2020 Asian Champs in India. but then Lebanon also didn't participate in that competition, yet their American wrestler was allowed to compete in the AQT. so I don't know

Entries for the Asian Championships starting from tomorrow https://uww.org/article/asian-championship-april-13-18-entries brackets are available for Greco-Roman and apparently all Chinese wrestlers withdrew ! they had some names in the entry list (all of them wrestled in the qualifiers in past 3 days) Japan also pulled out of women's competition because of some coronavirus infection, women's competition will be very weak without these 2 powerhouses.

whenever they feel they like it there is no rule to update the ranking for example exactly at the 1st day of month. they usually update it when they upload the result of that specific competition in their result section , still no results from the European Championship. https://www.iwf.net/new_bw/results_by_events/

I'm quite sure they used Continental Championships as the only qualifier in wrestling for 1996 Atlanta, I'm old enough to remember that actually

I wanted to ask a question not related to 2020 Olympics but didn't know where to ask lol when exactly IOC started to have qualification tournaments in all individual sports ? I know team sports have qualifiers for a long time but in individual sports it started something like 30/40 years ago. I'm just not sure if it was 1988 ? or 1992 ? or maybe even the boycotted 1984?

hard to tell , he is currently 20th and I believe he will climb few positions when they update the ranking after this Euro but we don't know his real ranking, there is a loophole in the rules, some weaker weightlifters may use it in their advantage to qualify in another weight just to participate in the Olympics some guys above Nagy are in fact 109kg weightlifters who just participated once or twice in the super heavy weight to complete their 6 mandatory events. Yang (CHN), Martirosyan (ARM), Kitts (USA), Michalski (POL), Ruiz (ESP) Aramnau (BLR) and Mastirosjan (AUT) remove these guys, also 2 other guys from Armenia and Belarus (most probably won't go to Tokyo) Nagy will be probably in top 8 ! but what's the loophole , consider that guy from Austria, if he doesn't qualify at 109kg, he simply can try his chance at +109kg and he may qualify because he registered twice in that weight too (which is mandatory to make you eligible) he will be weak in Tokyo at +109kg but at least he will go to Tokyo.

Talakhadze just broke another WR . this time in total 485kg. this is the best total ever in the history of this sport. 222kg Snatch today was also the best snatch ever.

another snatch world record for Talakhadze, well boring news I expect him to break the CJ and total records too. I wonder where is his limit! he rarely misses and lifts anything they put in front of him

84 men's freestyle quotas 6 5 4 3 2 1 Russia has a very good chance to make its team complete in Bulgaria. things won't be easy for USA, 65kg will be a hell of a competition. lots of big names still remaining.

Turkmenistani wrestlers were a bit more competitive in freestyle. but still after losing 7 matches in a row FINALLY they won a match in the 97kg repechage

apparently. I still have to check Japan wrestling website to see the reason but that's usually the reason when you got a VFO on your scorecard.

Quotas for today 57: 65: 74: 86: 97: 125: have to add that Olympic silver medalist Rei Higuchi of Japan apparently didn't make weight at 57 and got eliminated.

our freestyle team finished the job here, winning all 3 remaining quotas all 3 of them won all of their matches by technical superiority. I was sure about Mohammadian and somehow about Emami. but Yazdani junior teching that Russian guy of Bahrain was a bit surprising. it was a great tournament overall, 5 of our wrestlers dominated their matches and won the quota convincingly, only if it wasn't for the "Nouri disaster"

Ilyas Bekbulatov got pinned wow he was leading 8-0 but then bang. fall. he is a European Champion from Russia and was supposed to be a medal contender in Tokyo. now he has to travel to Bulgaria.

Semifinals: 57: vs /// vs 65: vs /// vs 74: vs /// vs 86: vs /// vs 97: vs /// vs 125: vs /// vs

I think this result will move him up to 6th/7th place or something like that, I can guarantee you that he will qualify. some of those guys in top 15 won't go to Tokyo. I can say those 2 Iranians are already out, CHN too, RUS has to pick just one. Michalski is 99.99% safe I couldn't watch this one live but wow Martirostyan bombed out ?! I know this is an "Armenian" thing to bomb out on unnecessary high weights but this is the World Record holder , you expect more from him.

considering how the current regime/dictatorship in Iran is unpopular among the people (at least the majority, they have their own "people" and they are hard to understand) most athletes who just leave the country and say something bad about the regime will get automatically popular. doesn't matter even if they lie or not. but I can't say the same about her. people really didn't feel sympathy with her, she was OK with everything as long as she was getting paid. and she received prize money probably more than any other athlete in the history of Iran. her medal was historical and she deserved it probably, she was getting paid for her TV interviews (that's a very uncommon thing in Iran) but then all of a sudden when her TKD career was in trouble and the national team coach (who happened to be her childhood coach) said she better think about retirement, Alizadeh found out she is being used and you know the rest of the story. I still can't wish her bad, she is still just a kid, I think 21. too much happened for her at this young age, Olympic medal, becoming a VERY famous person, marriage, leaving the country, that's too much to handle. she will probably regret some of her decisions when she gets 30. Beigi ? yeah, you know his coach (who is Iranian too) always claims Beigi lost his semifinal because he was "feeling guilty" after destroying Khodabakhshi in the QF. I believe Beigi probably lost his concentrations after dominating the world champion from his own country. but feeling guilty ? no way he was probably tooo happy