Hubbard

Thanks, akzent!!

Hubbard

Akzent, I'm not familiar with North Korean culture. Why would he change his name?

ziggy

I doubt he changed his name, it was probably just a translation problem. I watched the webcast and it was definately the same guy.

jba205

Akzent, if possible please find a way to get some videos online. The webcast was pretty brutal...

akzent

no videos available yet.

120

In the upper part of the barckets, Fatih Chakiroglu (Tur) won.
Bahtiar Akhmedov withrew after his 1st match; didn't shou up vs. Chakiroglu in the quarters.

In the low part:
In the qualification round, Mocco beat the Chechen Hizar Durgaev; Dlagnev beat a less known wrestler of Caucasus.

In the round of 16, Dlagnev def. Mocco.
In the quarters, Alan Dzampaev def. Dlagnev. Then Dzmapaev lost the semis to Alexei Shemarov (Blr), so Dlagnev was out.

A boring final Shemarov vs. Chakiroglu 3:0, 1:0 in both periods from the clinch.

Dzmapaev placed 3rd.

akzent

96 kg

The seeded favorits Ketoev and Ibragim Saidov lost.

Upper part:
Ketoev won 2 matches, one of them vs. Anzor Boltukaev.
He lost to Yurii Belanovski in the semis in 3 periods; in the 3rd period, Ketoev took leg for the clinch but failed to keep the hold and Belanovski won.

Lower part:

Qualifications:
Cerminara pinned by an Azeri.
Hrovat beat a guy from Kazakhstan.
Ibragim Saidov beat Serhat Balci (Tur) in 3 periods. In the 1st period Balci had Saidov nearly pinned.

Round of 16:
Saidov lost to Shamil Akhmedov who eventually became finalist.
Hrovat got pinned by a Caucasian guy in the 3rd period.

Final: Belanovski beat Akhmedov.
Ketoev placed 3rd.

akzent

Interesting developments this year:

In 3 classes (55, 60, 120) - winners from nations other than Russia.
2 finals (60, 120) without wrestlers of Russia (well Shemarov represented Russian until recently).

In the last years, wrestling in Russia and in the other post-soviet states has been more or less ethnicaly marked - dominance of Caucasian wrestlers and (to some extent) Siberian/Asiatic wrestlers in the leight weights. Now we see a shift - Slavic wrestlers (60, 96, 120) come back after having been not successful for many years, while Caucasians lose their positions.

akzent

absolute class - 96 vs 120

3rd place Chakiroglu def. Ketoev in 3 periods.
1st palce Belanovski def. Shemarov 0:1, 1:1, 1:1.

arm-spin

Wow those sound like some dreadful finals, clinches all the way. Kind of cool though that a 96 kg athlete won the Super championship, i'd like to see that match.

I notice that- other than Tsargush- the World Team members for Russia did not compete?

asap

akzent, what about 66 and 74kg? whats your summary of those weight classes at yarygin? did top wrestlers compete