U20 Day 5 thru Day 8...

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AND gets 5 pointed while flying through the air with the greatest of ease!

... and THAT ends Drury's U20 experience.

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The last of the medals matches will begin in less than 50 minutes...

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Last Mat assignments for the U20 tournament:

Finals Day 7
Mat A
Upcoming Matches
GR - 63 kg    Final 3-5    782    (UWW) Igor PUNCHENKO (10)    (KAZ) Damir IBRASHOV (6)
GR - 77 kg    Final 3-5    783    (USA) Leister Wayne BOWLING IV (5)    (UWW) Kiryl VALEUSKI (6)
GR - 87 kg    Final 3-5    784    (AZE) Orkhan Fizuli HAJIYEV (4)    (KAZ) Temirlan TURDAKYN (10)
GR - 130 kg    Final 3-5    785    (UWW) Viachaslau FEDARYNA (9)    (IRI) Abolfazl Gholamhossein FATHITAZANGI (3)
Mat B
Upcoming Matches
GR - 63 kg    Final 3-5    786    (IRI) Mohammad Javad Mohammad ABOUTALEBI NAVID (15)    (BUL) Kristiyan Svetoslavov MILENKOV (23)
GR - 63 kg    Final 1-2    787    (UZB) AYTJAN KHALMAKHANOV (7)    (ARM) Aleks MARGARYAN (17)
GR - 77 kg    Final 3-5    788    (KGZ) Raatbek Zhenishbekovich PAIAZBEKOV (12)    (UWW) Zaur BESLEKOEV (19)
GR - 77 kg    Final 1-2    789    (GEO) Anri PUTKARADZE (1)    (IRI) Ahoura Malek Mohammad BOUVEIRI PIANI (14)
GR - 87 kg    Final 3-5    790    (ARM) Erik TER MATEVOSYAN (13)    (FIN) Elias Konsta Johannes LYYSKI (23)
GR - 87 kg    Final 1-2    791    (UWW) Abdurakhman ABDULKADYROV (6)    (GEO) Luka KOCHALIDZE (17)
GR - 130 kg    Final 3-5    792    (AZE) Mazaim MARDANOV (17)    (UKR) Ivan YANKOVSKYI (14)
GR - 130 kg    Final 1-2    793    (UWW) Ali ILIASOV (8)    (TUR) Cemal Yusuf BAKIR (18)

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The last a session is about to begin.

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After the 63Kg three medal matches conclude... GR - 77 kg    Final 3-5    783    (USA) Leister Wayne BOWLING IV (5)    (UWW) Kiryl VALEUSKI (6) will start on Mat A.

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The announcer on Mat B mentioned the passing (today) of Emam-Ali Habibi, Iranian's first Olympic medalist in the '56 Olympics in Melbourne Australia...

Representing  Iran
Olympic Games

Gold medal – first place    1956 Melbourne    67 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place    1959 Tehran    73 kg
Gold medal – first place    1961 Yokohama    73 kg
Gold medal – first place    1962 Toledo    78 kg
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place    1958 Tokyo    67 kg

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Bowling IV coming up NOW on Mat A...

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Not good... 4 point throw by Valeuski

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AND a point for the UWW wrestler + putting Bowlig IV down in parterre...

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AND it's OVAH...

9-0 TF

No 

Medals

for

the US in greco.

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DID YOU KNOW...

That in Bulgaria, nodding your head:

... means NO!

 AND...

shaking your head:

...means  YES!

It's crazy, I know, isn't it?

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A final look at each of the final team rankings of this U20 tournament:

Freestyle:

https://arena.uww.org/weight-category/show/1f066b8b-b19e-662e-83a3-1dc79ae411c9/print/teams/ranking

Women's FS: 

https://arena.uww.org/weight-category/show/1f066b8b-c667-69c0-bd3b-0f532a931759/print/teams/ranking

And, the Greco-Roman final team stadings;

https://arena.uww.org/weight-category/show/1f066b8b-bc92-6c6a-88a5-ad636d85c5ed/print/teams/ranking

 

That's it.

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[GrandOlm]

On 8/23/2025 at 8:25 AM, D3 for LU said:

Now... Flashing back to when most foreign wrestlers react upon learning that their 1st opponent in the greco roman brackets of the upcoming U20 tournament... will be an AMERICAN:

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Well when you have a system that funnels people who aren't the pinnacle of the main track into something, what to expect? 

Add to them being usually well undertrained in the style compared to their competitors. Greco is far from optimized by the rest of the world, but other countries have figured out that at least by 15 you get them training full time. 

Other countries who are good at multiples styles often geographically separate them. It helps ameliorate the "jack of all trades master of none" and "Team A style Team B style" problems.