World Cup in freestyle wrestling Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling Soslan Ramonov: The guys from Azerbaijan competed well at the World Cup in Iran, this is a stellar team

Today, December 1, the Women's Freestyle Wrestling World Cup competitions started in Chuvashia.

Preliminary fights of athletes in ice palace The Head of Chuvashia visited the Cheboksary Arena Mikhail Ignatiev and First Vice-President of the Federation wrestling Russia Omar Murtuzaliev.

Teams from Japan, China, the USA, Azerbaijan, Mongolia, Sweden, Ukraine and Russia are taking part in the competition. Competitions are held in eight weight categories. IN weight category up to 58 kg, a representative of Chuvashia, a native of the Kanashsky district, bronze medalist of the European Youth Championship 2016, was declared Veronica Chumikova.

Answering questions from journalists, First Vice-President of the Russian Wrestling Federation Omar Murtuzaliev noted that the Government of the Republic has fulfilled all the requirements and conditions of the United World of Wrestling to organize the World Cup at a high organizational level.

“The week of women’s wrestling in Chuvashia has begun. The World Cup, which we promised to bring to the capital of Chuvashia, is already here. Eight are competing for him best teams peace. I hope that this will bring a lot of positive emotions to viewers, fans and experts freestyle wrestling», – noted Omar Murtuzaliev. He thanked the Head of the Republic for organizing the event, noting that the competition hall provided was no worse than in Paris at the World Championships. “Everything is worthy, at the level, all the issues that were considered at numerous meetings of the organizing committees have been resolved. I think that athletes today wrestle well on Chuvash mats,”– he concluded.

In its turn Mikhail Ignatiev thanked the Russian Wrestling Federation for their trust in holding competitions of this level. “I am glad that the World Cup is taking place in Chuvashia, it is a great honor for us. Today we watched the preliminary fights and received positive emotions. Team Russian Federation tuned to good results, and I support our team", said the head of the region.

He also noted the high level of training of the athletes and wished fair competition and objective judging to the competition participants.

The Women's Freestyle Wrestling World Cup is being held in Russia for the third time. This prestigious team tournament is being held for the first time in the capital of Chuvashia - the city of Cheboksary. The results of fights can be monitored in real time on the official website of the United World of Wrestling .

On the first day of the competition, December 1, preliminary fights will take place in all eight weight categories, and the opening ceremony will also take place in the evening. The program of the second final day consists of semi-final and final matches.

Final bouts of the World Cup on December 2 from 13 to 16 hours at live will be shown on the TV channel “Match! Fighter".

The World Cup in freestyle wrestling has ended in Kermanshah, Iran. The Azerbaijani team took third place, defeating Turkey with a crushing score of 7:1, while the Russian team suffered misfortune and managed to become only fifth.

Olympic champion Rio, the leader of the world ranking in the weight category up to 65 kg, Russian wrestler Soslan Ramonov expressed his opinion "Moscow-Baku" about the reasons for such a disappointing performance Russian team, which came as a surprise to many.

Soslan, your coach Anatoly Margiev said in an interview with Moscow-Baku yesterday that Russia is capable of fighting for third place, and maybe even winning. What happened in your opinion?

I personally also thought that, at a minimum, bronze medals our team will take it. But they went to the Azerbaijani team, for which I sincerely congratulate the Azerbaijanis, this is a star team, there are three Olympic medalists in it. The guys from Azerbaijan always fight with dignity at every tournament, so they deservedly received their award here too.

As for us, as you know, Russia in Iran at the World Cup is represented not by the first, but by the third or fourth numbers of the national team. The lack of experience of these young guys affected. These guys were still “untested”, one might say they are already being prepared for the next Olympic Games, and the coaches wanted to see how they would perform in such difficult conditions. They got a heavy group, to be honest, it was a very heavy group, which also played an important role. I think if we had been in another group, on the Iranian side, we would definitely have won bronze. Another reason also played a role - a difficult, long flight. I heard that the team flew to Iran for about twelve hours, with a transfer, after such a flight the guys probably felt exhausted...

- That’s why you call the conditions in Iran difficult?

I meant first of all the situation itself. There is a special attitude towards wrestling in Iran. The public puts a lot of pressure on you. Anyone who has gone through this will no longer be afraid of anything on the carpet. This cannot be compared with either the European Championship or the World Championship! The hall is crowded, the fans know all the wrestlers by name, the noise and commotion is incredible - but for me, for example, I always really liked it, and it doesn’t matter that they are rooting against you, this excitement still gets you going. I’m just such a person, such an atmosphere does not shock or knock me down, but, on the contrary, energizes and inspires me! I regret that this time I did not go with the team to Iran, I really wanted to, but coaching staff The national team decided that I was apparently not ready to compete yet.

- Did any of your opponents seriously surprise you?

I was rather surprised by our Alan Gogaev, we fight in the same weight category, up to 65 kilograms, I thought that he should have won all his fights, I worked with him at the training camp, he was in great shape. I don’t even know what influenced it...And Chermen Valiev, on the contrary, won against a very strong American Franco Molinaro, whom I remember well from the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. For such a young wrestler as Chermen this is a serious achievement, I was sincerely happy for him. So let’s not criticize our guys, they are still, one might say, children. They went through a “baptism of fire” as best they could, in the future, I’m sure everything will be fine for them!

Iran. Kermanshah. World Cup in freestyle wrestling.

The final:

Iran - USA - 5:3.

For 3rd place:

Azerbaijan-Türkiye - 7:1.

For 5th place:

Russia-Mongolia - 7:1

Final classification:

3. Azerbaijan

4. Türkiye

5. Russia

6. Mongolia

Today, Saturday, December 2, in Cheboksary, Russia, the 2017 Women's Freestyle Wrestling World Cup will continue and end. On the second competitive day of wrestling we will see the final matches as well as matches for 5th and 7th place. Despite the fact that our team will not fight for medals today, wrestling fans will still be interested in watching all 4 match meetings that remain to be held national teams at the Women's Freestyle Wrestling World Cup. After all, at all stages, the opponents are almost equal and principled, so it will be interesting, don’t miss it! And the wrestling portal WrestlingUA.com, together with you, will monitor the results of all fights of the final day of the 2017 Women's World Cup in real time. Follow the updates so as not to miss detailed results of match battles of the leading teams on the planet. SCHEDULE | LIVE VIDEO BROADCASTWomen's wrestling. World Cup 2017. FINALS. ONLINE RESULTS. Match for 7th place AZERBAIJAN - SWEDEN 0-048 kg: (SWE) - NASIROVA T. or STADNIK M. (AZE)53 kg: (SWE) - GURBANOVA L. or HAMZALZADA S. or QAMZOCLZADE S. (AZE)55 kg: PETER S. (SWE) - HASHIMZADA S. (AZE)58 kg: NILSSON E. (SWE) - KOLESNIK A. (AZE)60 kg: X X . (SWE) - OMELCHENKO T. (AZE)63 kg: NYGREN M. (SWE) - GAMBAROVA E. (AZE)69 kg: SANDAHL A. (SWE) - MANOLOVA E. (AZE)75 kg: MAKOTA STROE D. ( SWE) - ZUTOVA G. (AZE)Match for 5th place RUSSIA - UKRAINE 0-048 kg: (RUS) - Ilona Semkiv (Ukraine)53 kg: (RUS) - Olga Schneider. (Ukraine)55 kg: (RUS) - Elena Kremzer (Ukraine)58 kg: (RUS) - Irina Chikhradze (Ukraine)60 kg: (RUS) - Sofia Bodnar (Ukraine)63 kg: (RUS) - Irina Kolyadenko (Ukraine) )69 kg: (RUS) - Alla Belinskaya (Ukraine)75 kg: (RUS) - Anastasia Shustova (Ukraine)Match for 3rd place MONGOLIA - USA 0-048kg: ANTHONY V. (USA) - BUYANDALAI C. (MGL )53kg: AUGELLO H. (USA) - GANBAATAR O. (MGL)55kg: (USA) - ERDENECHIMEG S. or ERDENECHIMEG S. (MGL)58kg: MIRACLE K. (USA) - ALTANTSETSEG B. (MGL)60kg: RAGAN A. (USA) - ENKHBAT G. (MGL)63kg: (USA) - PUREVDORJ O. or PUREVDORJ O. (MGL)69kg: MENSAH T. (USA) - SORONZONBOID B. (MGL)75kg: (USA) - GAN OCHIR U. or OCHIRBAT N. or OCHIRBAT N. (MGL)FINAL Match for 1st place CHINA - JAPAN 0-048 kg:(JPN) - NI J. or SUN Y. (CHN)53 kg:(JPN) - OUYANG J. or PANG Q. (CHN)55 kg:(JPN) - LUO L. or RONG N. (CHN)58 kg:(JPN) - CHEN X. or SUN Y. (CHN)60 kg:(JPN) - CHEN X. or LI Q. (CHN)63 kg:(JPN) - LUO X. or XU R. (CHN)69 kg:(JPN) - WANG J. or ZHOU F. (CHN)75 kg:(JPN ) - PALIHA P. or ZHOU Q. (CHN)