WELCOME TO THE WRESTLING ACADEMY
The Wrestling Academy is an initiative established under the leadership of United World Wrestling’s President Mr Nenad Lalovic.
The vision of the Wrestling Academy is to develop a global workforce of trained individuals, knowledgeable and competent at applying their skills and enabling the continued global growth of the sport of wrestling.
United World Wrestling’s desire is to elevate the stakeholders’ knowledge of the discipline of wrestling through the creation of tailored programmes relevant for the global wrestling family.
All nations will have the opportunity to benefit from these programme pathways as they are progressively developed.
UNITED WORLD WRESTLING DEVELOPMENT & EDUCATION
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DEVELOPMENT DEPARTEMENT
The core mission of the UWW Development Department is to grow wrestling worldwide by providing a framework for increased participation, enhanced promotion, and global competitive success in the sport. The department focuses its work on education, high performance & training, technical assistance & financial subsidy, youth development and social inclusion at a global scale.
Led by Mrs Deqa Niamkey, UWW Development Director, the development team comprises 6 development staff, consultant coaches, and 55 mission-based world-renowned experts.
The UWW Development Department is also the main workforce in developing and managing the UWW Academy together with the UWW IT department.
Deqa NIAMKEY
Development Director
Vincent AKA
Development Officer
Lei LIANG
Development Manager
Yuri MAIER
Sports and Development Officer
Zachary David ERRETT
Education Manager
Olzhas BEISEMBAYEV
Sport and Devlopment Officer Asia
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
The General Affairs Department is in charge of all matters related to governance, legal, disciplinary, anti-doping, members and institutional relations, as well as the general administration of the federation. It coordinates the work of the Medical, Prevention & Anti-doping Commission and the Legal & Ethics Commission.
Carlos ROY
General Secretary
Yannick GOLLARD
Finance and Accounting Manager
Julien DUCHOUD
Licence and translations
Isabelle DUSSON
Human Resource
Judith DUCHOUD
Licence and Nationality department
IT DEPARTMENT
The IT Department oversees technology system at all UWW events and major events, arena and Athena systems including the internal support for the UWW headquarters.
Sébastien GUENAT
IT Director
Emmanuel VEYRAT
IT Manager
Youssef BOUAZIZ
IT Specialist
Slaven DOKMANAC
Content Publisher
SPORT DEPARTMENT
The Sport Department oversees all matters related to competitions, events, Olympic Games, allocation of events, bidding and hosting agreements, while making sure the events comply to the required conditions. It coordinates the work of the Technical, Beach Wrestling, Associated Styles Referees Commissions.
Jean Daniel REY
Sports Director
Ramil AHMADOV
Senior Competition Manager
Tristan MORARD
Sports Coordinator
Yauheniya MENHEL
Competition Manager
Antonina BOSSER
Sports Coordinator
Onur SIMSEK
ASO Manager
MARKETING & COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT
The Marketing and Communication Department oversees sponsorship, marketing, branding while communication with the various stakeholders on the current affairs and news. It coordinates the work of the Marketing and Media Commissions.
Gordon TEMPLEMAN
Marketing and Communication Director
Rita PIVORIUNAITE
Marketing and Communication Coordinator
Florian BAKOUR
Digital Project Manager
UNITED WORLD WRESTLING CERTIFIED EDUCATORS
The UWW Educators are a group of high-level coaches and referees from around the world. They were endorsed by either their National Federation, UWW Continental Councils and UWW Coaches and Refereeing Commissions. They are the main force for conducting the UWW educational courses world-wide.
All of UWW Educators have attended and successfully passed the Educator Course with a sound understanding of pedagogical approach and deliver the content in a dynamic and interactive way.
Most of the UWW Educators are active in their professions, which allows enhanced experience of the participants through real-world examples.
The UWW Educators come from diverse backgrounds and can accommodate a variety of different languages for the courses.
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AFRICA
Mohamed Kamel BOUAZIZ
Charles VILLET
Sherif HALAWA
Christian Lazare DANGA
Akuh PURITY
Juan Maren DELIS
Hassan Ibrahim MADANY IBRAHIM
Marwa AMRI
Ahmed KHEDHRI
Sherif is a Technical Specialist at the Saudi Wrestling Federation since 2017. He is a UWW Referee (category IS) and a UWW Educator. He officiated as a referee at the first Youth Olympic Games in Singapore (2010), 7 World Wrestling Championships, 13 Continental Wrestling Championships and many other international events. He is a referee since 2014 and an international referee since 2017.
South African-born Charles has been part of the wrestling family for 46 years, 38 of which as a referee. He is also an educator and an assistant instructor. He was South Africa’s Chairperson for the National Referee Council. He also proudly served at the Tournaments the few times he represented the UWW. His most outstanding achievement - in his opinion - was his participation in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, but the Commonwealth Games and Senior World Championships were remarkable as well. South Africa South Africa Rio (BRA)
Hassan is one of the most successful wrestlers from Africa. He was a 5-time gold medalist in the African Championships. He won a gold medal at the 2005 & 2009 Mediterranean Games. Hassan was a 2-time Olympian (Beijing, London). In 2012, he began his coaching career as a coach of the National Wrestling Team of Egypt. He served in the role through 2013 and then one additional year in 2017. Hassan then became a National Coach for Morocco and worked from 2014-2016. Since 2018, he has been the National Coach of Saudi Arabia. He has worked with Freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestlers.
Marwa has been a high-level wrestler for many years. She has participated in 4 Olympic games, 11 World Championships, and 14 Continental Championships. She earned a bronze medal in the Rio Olympic Games in 2016, a silver medal at the Senior World Championships in 2017, and has 12 African titles. Marwa has attended more than 80 training camps during her career. Marwa also has a sports instructor diploma from Tunisian Ministry of Youth Sports and has been a sports teacher since 2011.
Ahmed has served in many capacities within the Tunisia Wrestling Federation. He has worked as the National Technical Director for 13 years, President of Technical Commission for 6 years and 2 years as the National Freestyle Coach. He has attended training camps in Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, and Iran. He has participated as a coach in over 40 major international competitions including 2 Olympic Games, 7 World Championships, and 14 Continental Championships. Ahmed has a 3rd degree wrestling coach diploma for the Tunisian Ministry of Youth, Sports & Physical Education. He has a Master’s degree in Sports Training & Physical Education and a Bachelor’s degree in Experimental Sciences.
Juan Luís is a UWW Educator and coach. He is a former wrestling champion (World Championships, Pan-American Games, Pan-American Championships, etc.). He stopped his career as an athlete in 2006. With a bachelor’s degree in Physical Education and Sport. As an educator, he has given training courses to UWW coaches in many countries (e.g. Colombia, Venezuela, Morocco, France, etc.) Atlanta (GEO) Sydney (AUS) Barcelona With him, they obtained a gold medal at the Olympic Games, a bronze one at the Junior World Championships and other medals at European championships. America
AMERICAS
Pedro ROJAS
Juan Jose MALDONADO
Gary Lee MAYABB
Clarissa CHUN
Juan Arturo CAMACHO
Hector CAMACHO PEDRIQUEZ
David GUTIRRIEZ
Casey GOESSL
Eduardo PAZ GONCALVES
Raul TRUJILLO DIAZ
Ignacio D ALLESSANDRO
Rafael GALVA
AGUILA CAÑIZALEZ, Millie
Filiberto DELGADO
Nestor ALMANZA
Mohamed ABDELFATTAH
36 Senior-level World medals, 9 Senior-level World champions, 5 Olympic medalists and 1 Olympic champion. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Work from the University of Iowa in 1993. United States United States 36 Senior-level World medals, 9 Senior-level World champions, 5 Olympic medalists and 1 Olympic champion.
Juan Luís is a UWW Educator and coach. He is a former wrestling champion (World Championships, Pan-American Games, Pan-American Championships, etc.). He stopped his career as an athlete in 2006. With a bachelor’s degree in Physical Education and Sport. As an educator, he has given training courses to UWW coaches in many countries (e.g. Colombia, Venezuela, Morocco, France, etc.) Atlanta (GEO) Sydney (AUS) Barcelona With him, they obtained a gold medal at the Olympic Games, a bronze one at the Junior World Championships and other medals at European championships. America
As a coach: In addition to his 18 years as a University level coach (Div. 1, III, NCWA), he also coached the Team USA Cadet Pan Am (GR & FS) to Golds in Campeche, Mexico in 2011. As an educator: Mike has developed USA Wrestling’s Athlete Development Model (ADM) and built USA Wrestling’s Copper and Bronze Level Coach Education Courses. Coaches Education Program (NCEP). USA
In addition to her 2008 World title, she won 20 gold, 14 silver and 10 bronze medals at international tournaments over the course of a wrestling career that spanned nearly twenty years. She has been a United World Wrestling Educator since 2016 and served as an Athlete Role Model for the International Olympic Committee during the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires. Clarissa holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. London United Kingdom Beijing (CHN) Hawaii (USA)
Former athlete from Chile, South-American medallist. Graduated in Education, Master’s degree in Administration and High Performance, egressed from MOSO, Navy Official. 16 Pan-American championship Beach Wrestling world championships 2018 Santhiago (CHI) Santhiago (CHI)
He is a board member of the United States Wrestling Officials Association (2011-present), the curator and digital co-editor of USA Wrestling Rulebook (2015-present) and Head of the USA Wrestling International Assessment Committee. He officiated as an educator at the USA Cadet/Junior championships (2018 and 2019 UWW Courses) and as a referee at the USA Olympic (2008, 2012, 2016) & World (2007-2018) team trials. He has been a UWW Referee for many years (2012-present) at several games and championships. He was honored as Official of the Year by USA Wrestling in 2013 and as International Referee Delegate at nine different UWW events (2013-2018). Category M1 now Category IS
13 years of experience as international referee. Graduated in Administration, President of the Brazilian Referees Commission. He is currently the Administrative Manager of the Brazilian Wrestling Federation. Rio (BRA) Nanjing (CHN) Kazan (RUS)
41 years of experience as coach, 32 years as Cuba National Team’s coach. 3 Olympic Games as coach with Cuba, 2 Olympic Games with Portugal (1996 and 2004). Currently Head Coach of Cuba’s Greco-Roman team. He holds a Master in Wrestling Science from Manuel Fajardo University, Havana - Cuba.
41 years of experience as coach, 32 years as Cuba National Team’s coach. 3 Olympic Games as coach with Cuba, 2 Olympic Games with Portugal (1996 and 2004). Currently Head Coach of Cuba’s Greco-Roman team. He holds a Master in Wrestling Science from Manuel Fajardo University, Havana - Cuba.
He is the President of the Referee Union of the Puerto Rican Wrestling Federation (Federación de Luchas Asociadas de Puerto Rico). He combines more than 25 years of experience as an athlete, coach, referee and educator and is Puerto Rico National Wrestling Team’s coach, a UWW Delegate and an International UWW Referee Facilitator (Category IS). He has given many referee courses between 2014 and 2019. Rafael was named Most Outstanding Referee in Puerto Rico in 2011 and at the 2015 Pan-American championships in Chile, and UWW Educator for the Americas in 2017. He was selected for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires. He holds an associate degree in Adapted Physical Education for Disabled Children.
Former wrestler from Venezuela, national team member for 15 years. 10 years of experience as coach, 6 years in development and 4 years with Venezuela national team. 2016 Olympic Games (5th place, best result ever for Venezuela, coach for Pan-American Games 2015 She graduated in Physical Education from Pedago Experimental Libertador University, Lara - Venezuela. Rio (BRA)
46 years of experience as coach. 9 years as Junior National Team coach. 12 years as Senior National Team coach. 3 years as Freestyle Head Coach and currently Women Wrestling National Team coach. 7 Olympic medals, 30 Junior World Championships and 25 Senior World Championships. Filiberto has a Master in Wrestling Science from Manuel Fajardo University, Havana – Cuba.
Former athlete from Cuba, national team member for 15 years. Head Coach of Chile National Team. First World medal in the history of the country, 3rd place in Paris 2017. Graduated in Physical Culture from Manuel Fajardo University, specialty in High Performance Sport. Stocholm (SWE) Toronto (CAN)
Former wrestler from Colombia, national champion. He is currently Head Coach of Colombia. Graduated in Physical Culture from the Fajardo University, Havana – Cuba and in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Colombia.
11 years of experience as an international referee: 8 Pan-American Championships, 2014 South-American Games Santiago. He also acted as Front of House Coordinator for the 2011 Pan-American Games in Guadalajara and Technical Delegate for the 2017 Brazil Cup, the 2017 South-American Championships and the 2018 South-American Games in Cochabamba. Mex
Former wrestler from Venezuela. He is currently Head coach of Guatemala. Graduated lawyer from Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho University and Superior Technician in Administration of Human Resources, University School of Administration and Marketing. He is also Superior Technician in Sports from Los Teques University, Caracas - Venezuela. MGL and TUR Lauro de Freitas (BRA)
Former Cuban National Team member from 1983 to 1989. 12 times World Championships coach. Graduated in Sports and Physical Culture from Manuel Fajardo University, Havana - Cuba.
Former wrestler with more than 34 years of coaching experience. He has been 16 times a cadet/junior/senior/university coach for USA World Team. USA Wrestling Greco-Roman World Team Coach, travelling with teams to 15 different countries. He is often invited to coaching presentations. Gary obtained his Master of Science in Curriculum Instruction with an emphasis in Psychology. He is currently teaching at Staley High School in Kansas City, Missouri (USA). NWCA/MWA/MSHSAA
ASIA
Shuichiro YABUI
Igor LIGAY
Ashok KUMAR
Nima SEDEGHI
Ji woo LEE
Hadi HASAN ISMAEL
Mohammed MOSALEIPOUR
Shuichiro Yabui is one of United World Wrestling’s first-ever educators and Asia’s first UWW Educator. As such, he has delivered coaching courses - mainly in Asia and Oceania. With a Bachelor of Business Administration and a secondary school teaching certificate in business management, he has been a teacher and wrestling coach in Japan for 14 years. He also assists in the UWW Coaches Commission and in UWW media translations.
Ashok is currently Chief referee at the Wrestling Federation of India. He is a category IS UWW referee and was promoted a UWW referee educator in 2018. He has 24 years of experience as a national referee and 13 as an international one. He started wrestling at the age of 10. He joined the Indian Air Force in 1985 and competed at the Indian Armed Forces National Level Championships (inter-services) for 6 years. He won a freestyle bronze medal in 1990 in 74kg. He was coach of the Indian Armed Forces team for 7 years. Rio (BRA)
Igor studied at the Department of Physical Culture and Sports at the University of Aulie-Ata in Kazakhstan. From 1992 to 2010, he competed as a Greco-Roman wrestling. He was a Greco-Roman coach from 2010 to 2018 at the Kazhymukan Children’s Sport School. In 2018, he began coach Greco-Roman wrestling at the Olympic Training Center in Saryagash. In 2015, he obtained the highest referee category (IS). In 2018, he refereed the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires. He also refereed at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
Mohammed has a degree in Computer Engineering from Yazd University and a certificate of advanced English language from Iran Language Institute. He has been serving as a referee in I.R. Iran since 2012. In 2020, he became the head of the Referee Commission in I.R. Iran Wrestling Federation. In 2015, he obtained the highest referee category of IS in UWW. Mohammed has refereed 4 World Senior Championships and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He is also a member of the UWW Referee Commission.
Hadi Hasan has a master’s degree in Biomechanics of wrestling and currently serves as a referee for UWW. He is a category IS referee and has worked many major championships. These include Senior World Championships (4x), U20 World Championships (5x), Senior Asian Championships (5x), and the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Nima has a Master of Industrial Science and Technology. In I.R. Iran, he is member of Referee Commission and responsible of national education for the wrestling federation. In UWW, he currently holds the highest referee category (IS). He has refereed the U23 World Championships (2017, 2021), Senior World Championships (2016, 2019), and the Buenos Aires Youth Olympic Games in 2018.
She is formally named Na Lae LEE and competed as an athlete for the Korea Wrestling Federation. She was a 3-time bronze medalist at the Asian Championships (1999, 2004, and 2005). She also competed in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games at 55kg and finished in 7th place. In 2010, she became an UWW Referee while coaching for the Korea Wrestling Federation. At the 2012 London Olympics, she was the coach of the Women’s National Team. While continuing to referee, she earned the highest category of IS. She refereed the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. She is one of the few individuals in the world you have wrestled, coached, and refereed in the Olympic games.
EUROPE
Georgi SREDKOV
Vladimir SHATSKYKH
Stanislav SERNEK
Ibrahim CICIOGLU
Levent SEN
Norovard ARUSTAMYAN
Yusup ABDULSALAMOV
Trevor HOSKINS
Alexey BAZULIN
Davor PETANJEK
Petru TOARCA
Carlos GARCIA
Vaclav SCHEINER
Julian KWIT
Anzor TEMBOTOV
Karol LEBKOWSKI
Roman PAVLOV
Ferenc GYARMATI
Edit DOZSA
Diletta GIAMPICCOLO
He is a member of the Bulgarian Coaches Commission. He has 20 years of experience as a wrestler and is a twelve-time Bulgarian champion. He has won numerous titles and medals at various championships and tournaments. He also has 5 years of experience as a coach in Bulgaria, Germany and international camps. Georgi holds a bachelor’s degree in Tourism Management from the European High School of Economics and Management of Plovdiv, Bulgaria and a second one as a Wrestling coach and Sport teacher. He also holds a master’s degree in Sport for High Results and Condition Training from the National Sport Academy Vasil Levski of Sofia, Bulgaria.
Vladimir works closely with United World Wrestling. He is a technical expert of Greco-Roman wrestling. He also creates content and provides education tools for UWW’s education platform and online courses. He has received many awards throughout the years (e.g. Sportsman of the Year in Ukraine in 2006 and 2009). Vladimir has been working at the School for High Sport Skills as a coach since 2012 and has been the senior coach for the Ukrainian national Greco-Roman wrestling team since 2013 (he was previously the sportsman-instructor of the team from 2000 to 2012 and the coach of the Junior team from 2015 to 2017). He works for the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine. Tashkent (UZB) Guangzhou (CHN) Vilnius (LTU)
Šernek is a member of the UWW Refereeing Commission, holds an educator position and is the current Secretary General of the Slovenian Wrestling Federation. Besides his work, he is constantly working hard to develop himself as a wrestling referee and has been officiating as such at local and international levels for the last 25 years. Mr. Šernek is very well known and respected among all the wrestling community of Slovenia and at UWW, especially by his colleagues. Also, for the past couple of years, Mr. Šernek often worked as a neutral referee and assistant educator at referee clinics and seminars, where he helped educate new generations of referees. In 2018, he acquired the level 1 certificate for referees in Tbilisi. London (GBR) Rio (BRA) Tokyo (JPN) Baku (AZE) Las Vegas (USA)
He is a member of the UWW Refereeing Commission as well as an instructor and educator, positions he has been holding since 2013. He is also the chair of the Refereeing Commission of the Turkish Wrestling Federation. He started his refereeing career in 1989 and became an international referee in 1996. He is now a top category referee (Olympic level). In addition, he is the technical chair for wrestling at the International University Sport Federation (FISU). He has refereed more than 25 Continental and World Championships. As an educator and an instructor, he has taught several referee and coach seminars and courses. He obtained his Doctorate degree (PhD) in Exercise Sciences in 1998, became an Associate Professor in the same domain in 2012 and a Professor in 2018. Crteil (FRA) 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games
Levent was born in Bulgaria and emigrated to Turkey 15 years later. He took a referee course in 1994 and became a national referee in 1999. In 2005, he became an international referee. He upgraded in 2013 when he became a IS referee (highest level). Budapest (HUN) Rio de Janeiro (BRA) Tokyo (JPN)
Norovard is an IS-category referee. From 2012 to 2018, she worked at the International Department of the Russian Wrestling Federation LLC in Moscow. From 2011 to 2018, she was a trainer at LLC Vityaz Moscow for preschool children. In addition to her role as a referee, she took part in the organization of several championships and has also represented UWW as a delegate at several international tournaments. She has attended 22 workshops for coaches and referees in Russia. She is currently participating in the 2012-2020 wrestling development program “Fight and win!” - approved by the Ministry of Sport of the Russian Federation. Budapest (HUN) 2013, 2018 Las Vegas (USA) 2015 Oslo (NOR) 2021 Oslo (NOR) 2021 Rio de Janeiro (BRA) Tokyo (JPN) Singapore 2010 Nanjing 2014 Buenos Aires 2018 Tbilisi (GEO) 2013, Vantaa (FIN) 2014 Samokov (BUL) 2014
He has been the second coach of the Georgian national team of freestyle wrestling since 2017 and has 9 years of experience as a coach. Indeed, from 2010 to 2012, he was in the national team of freestyle wrestling and from 2013 to 2016 he coached the Junior team of freestyle wrestling. The Georgian national team also won the third place at the World Championships (2017, 2018). During his years as a coach, the team won three gold, one silver and two bronze medals. Paris (FRA) Paris (FRA) Budapest (HUN)
He is the Vice-President of the Georgian National Federation and a Full Professor at the Georgian State University of Physical Education and Sport. He was awarded Best Referee of Georgia every year from 2004 to 2016. He was an international referee from 1988 to 2016. He would officiate at all Senior (and sometimes the other categories) European and World Championships in all styles. Two-time Georgian champion and a two-time Soviet Union Cup holder. As an educator, he is a UWW instructor and supervisor. Edisher is a Doctor, an Academician and an Associate Professor. He has published more than 40 scientific works and publications in international journals and one monograph. In addition to all of that, he is an Honored coach and Honored sports worker of Georgia. Tashkent (UZB) 2004 Athens (GRE) 2008 Beijing (CHN) 2012 London (GBR) 2016 Rio (BRA)
Alexey has completed the standard Master of Sports of Russia in freestyle wrestling. 2009 he became an international referee (category III), which allowed him to officiate at international tournaments (Cadet European Championships, World Cups and Championships) In 2016, he upgraded to the highest refereeing category, the UWW IS. He was elected a UWW Delegate in Lithuania in 2017 and in Armenia in 2018. In total, he has refereed 67 international tournaments from 2009 to 2018 and has attended 22 seminars for referees in Russia. Budapest (HUN) 2016 Paris (FRA) 2017 Budapest (HUN)2018 U23 Bulgaria 2016 Serbia 2017 Russia 2018
Petar has 40 years of experience as a coach and referee. He started coaching in 1975 and has worked in Cuba (1976), in France (1992-93) and in Bulgaria. Several of the athletes he coached became European and World champions. He joined UWW in 1983 and became an international referee in 2013. He has officiated at more than 60 European and World Championships as well as two Olympic Games. He is currently the coach for Bulgaria’s junior national Greco-Roman wrestling team. He studied at the National Sport Academy Vassil Lebski (1971-1975).
Davor is the President of the Croatian Wrestling Referees Association and a member of the Croatian Wrestling Federation. He is also a UWW international referee (IS category). He is a former wrestler (8 years, from Cadet to Senior), and has been an active wrestling referee since 1989. He also has a vast experience in holding referee courses and clinics. As an international referee (since 1993), European Games, more than 40 Junior and Senior World Championships and numerous continental and international tournaments. From 2013 to 2015, he was a FILA/UWW instructor. In addition, he is a 2013 FILA Golden Whistle awardee. Davor has an AD (Associate Degree) in Computer Engineering. He is a certified IT system engineer and an IT specialist.
He has achieved significant results as a wrestler: medalist at the Asian Wrestling Championships (Gold in 2003, Bronze in 2008 and 2012), ranked 9th at the 2004 Olympic Games, Silver medal at the World Wrestling Championships in 2007, Silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games. He has 10 years of coaching experience and was the personal coach of many young champions and prize-winning athletes (e.g. Gadzhiev Magomedmurad, Baranowski Zbigniew). He has worked in the United Arab Emirates, Russia and Poland. He has a degree in High Physical and Sport Education from State
Carlos has been the Director of Marketing, Advertising and International Relations of the Spanish Wrestling Federation since 2011. He has 17 years of experience as an international referee. He officiated at 14 World Championships and at the London Olympic Games in 2012. He is a member of the UWW Refereeing Commission and a referee educator. He graduated in Agricultural Engineering and holds a Master of Business Administration.
Petru is a multiple times national champion of Romania and Ukraine. From 2000 to 2008, he was part of the Romanian national team as a freestyle wrestler. He won the title of World Military Champion in 2006 and participated in the Olympic Games of Beijing (2008). He is now a coach at the club Steaua Bucuresti. Best results with the women’s national team: Senior European Championships (2018, 2nd, 3rd), U23 (3× 3rd, 2× 5th), World Nations Cup 2018, World Championships 2017 (2nd place). He was named Emeritus Coach and Master of Sports of Romania and Master of Sport of Ukraine, International class. Petru studied at the faculty of Physical Education and Sport of the South Ukrainian K.D.Ushynsky National Pedagogical University, Odessa (Ukraine).
He works at the British Wrestling Association. His positions there are Tutor Pathway Lead, which involves initial tutor identification (coach and referee) and organizing training, identifying where courses are needed and at what level, circulating documentation, sourcing and booking venues, organizing and allocating tutors, and Lead Coach Tutor, which consists of leading courses and organizing the delivery of the technical and theoretical content of courses. He has been a UWW Educator since 2004 and obtained his Level 2 UWW coaching certificate in 2018. He was a technical official at the London Olympic Games in 2012. He says it was a great honor and privilege to carry the Olympic Torch.
He lives in England. As a day job, he works in events for the Local Government. He also runs JR Wrestling, which is a management and consultancy company for athletes from around the world. Within the British Wrestling Association, he is the Talent Pathway Lead, with over 25 years of experience in freestyle wrestling. He has held various roles in the discipline, which include being an athlete, coach, team manager, pathway manager and now a coach educator for UWW. Jatinder holds a BA (Hons.) in Sports and Leisure Management.
Vaclav has been a board member of the Czech Wrestling Federation and the Chairman of the Referee Commission since 2009. He is a national referee since 2001, an international referee since 2009 and is also a UWW Referee (IS category). e received the Golden Whistle Award at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Vaclav holds a master’s degree as a wrestling coach from the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports - Charles University, Prague. Rio de Janeiro (BRA)
He is a UWW Coach Educator and Academy Educator (World Academy of Sport). Kwit is a coach for the Polish national team and the club “WKS ŚLĄSK,” where he has been coaching the Junior and Senior groups since 2012 and the Cadet group since 2014. In 2015, he received his diploma of certified trainer from the Academy of Physical Education in Wrocław (POL). He has attended several conferences throughout the years since 2012. As an athlete, he has participated in 3 World Championships (1998 – 1st, 2007 – 5th and 2009 – 11th) and 3 European Championships (2000 – 7th, 2002 - 13th and 2008 – 5th), among other games and tournaments.
He is an Honored coach of Russia. He has been working with the Russian wrestling national team for 15 years. The national team has been champion of the European Championships 13 times and of the World Championships 7 times. His athletes won 2 Gold medals during the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore, the same at the 2018 YOG in Buenos Aires and 1 Gold medal at the 2014 YOG in Nanjing. He is the Head coach of SC Gladiator since 2002.
Karol is a member of the Polish Wrestling Federation, where he has been the Head Chief of Referees for 12 years. He is also a UWW Referee (IS category). He has been an international referee since 1994. He has refereed 18 World Championships and 14 European Championships. He has also refereed the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, the Baku 2015 European Games and the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan. He holds a Master of Physical Education. He is also Principal in an Elementary School. Baku (AZE) Kazan (RUS)
Mohamed started wrestling at university and has been involved in the discipline for over 15 years. He has been, for 11 years now, Head coach (and programme coordinator) at Brondesbury College in London, teaching students from 10 to 19 years of age - who participate in regional and national (school boy, cadet, junior and senior) training programmes. He also runs the “Student Athlete Academic Support Programme” (SAASP) at the college, a programme that gives academic support to student athletes who have high sporting potential. Over the last 11 years, they have obtained numerous medals on the domestic circuit and internationally (club level). They now have multi-tier activity levels (e.g. National Youth Team, Regional Squad, Senior Squad, Junior Squad, etc.) Mohamed has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Systems Engineering (Bachelor of Engineering - BEng).
He has been a UWW Coach Educator for about 5 years now and has delivered courses in Malawi, Tanzania, Singapore and Sierra Leone. Eric is a former athlete. He is an English Wrestling National Champion and a British Wrestling Champion. He has received many awards during his career. Indeed, from 2000 to 2002, he was awarded Sports Person of the year and Best Wrestler and got into the Hall of Fame of Cameroon. He is a wrestling coach and mentor at The Champ Foundation. He is a Level 1 UKCC wrestling coach. In addition to being an associate member of the British Wrestling Federation and United World Wrestling, he is also a member of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences. He works at the Brent River College, where he teaches both Sciences and Sport. He also got his purple belt in Jiu-Jitsu at the London Open Champion. Club and national coaches
Anatolie is a former wrestler who first represented Moldova, then Bulgaria. He has won many medals and participated in two Olympic Games editions (2008 and 2012). He was awarded the titles of International Master of Sports in Moldova (2001) and Bulgaria (2006), as well as that of Emeritus Wrestling Coach for Freestyle in Moldova (2014) and Romania (2017). In 2010, he obtained his master’s degree in Physical Culture and Sports from the State University of Physical Education and Sport of Chisinau and specialized in Sports Training Technology.
Roman is a manager at the Federation of Women's Wrestling of Ukraine, where he has been working since 2015. He has refereed 3 European Championships, 4 World Championships, He has 13 years of experience as a freestyle wrestling coach thanks to his position at the Kherson Higher School of Physical Education from 2002-2015. Roman studied Physical Education and Sport at Kiev National University of Physical Education and Sport of Ukraine. IS category Jiangsu (CHN) Rio (BRA)
Ferenc has worked as worked at the Sport and School Club Targu Mures in Romania. He was a teacher and coach from 1998 to 2011 and has served as the director of the school since 2011. He obtained the highest referee category (IS) in 2013. Since then, he has referee 2 Olympic Games (Rio de Janiero and Tokyo), 2 European Games, 7 Senior World Championships, and received the Golden Whistle in 2019. Ferenc also serves on the Referee Commission for the UWW European Council Commission. He is also the President of the Romanian Referee Commission.
Diletta had a very successful career as a wrestler. She won a silver medal at the 2001 World Championships, earned 3 bronze medals at the European Championships, was a 2 time Mediterranean Games gold medalist, and competed in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. After her wrestling career, she began coaching with Hungarian Women’s National Team. She started in 2006 and coached seniors, U20, and U17 wrestlers. Diletta is currently the head coach of the U20 sector and the head coach of the National Wrestling Academy. She has a degree is Sport Sciences from the University of Padova and has achieved the 4th CONI Level at the CONI Sports School. She also completed the High-Performance Coach Programme for the Women Sport Leadership Academy.
Edit has been the President of Refereeing Commission of the Italian Wrestling Federation (FIJLKAM) since 2016. She is also working in other areas of the Federation. She currently serves Vice Team Manager of Italian National Teams and Sport Event Commission. Edit has been a Category IS referee since 2007 and a UWW referee since 2003. During her referee career, she has refereed 3 Olympic Games (Tokyo, Rio de Janiero, Beijing), 25 World Championships, 25 European Championships and is a current member of the UWW Referee Commission.
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Stefan RUDEVICS
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