A South African Junior team has been selected to represent our country in the Junior African Championships in Tunisia on the 6-8^th June 2008.

Congratulations to the following Wrestlers, Coaches and Officials that were selected to take part in the Junior African Championships.

The Team Selected is as follows:

JNR AFRICA TEAM  6-8  JUNE 2008 TUNISIA

COACHES / TEAM MANAGER/ REFEREE OFFICIAL

Team Manager:                         M Luff (Bol)

Freestyle Coach:                       N Coetzee (OG) & R Botha (Mpum)

Grecco-Roman Coach:              W Bosse (WP)

Female Coach:                          S Bosse (WP)

Referee Official:                       P Wilken (Mpum)

The South African Greco Roman Championships are to be held at the DF Malan Hall, Stellenbosch on the 2^nd and 3^rd May 2008.
 

PROGRAM

FRIDAY            :           2 MAY 2008

DIVISION          :           YOUTH – 0/13, 0/15 & Juniors

WEIGH IN         :           08H00

VENUE             :           D.F. MALAN HALL, STELLENBOSCH

MATS               :           4 MATS

SATERDAG      :           3 MAY 2008

AFDEELING      :           CADET & SENIOR

WEIGH IN         :           08H00

VENUE             :           D.F. MALAN HALL, STELLENBOSCH

MATS               :           3 MATS

FINALS IN THE JUNIOR, CADET AND SENIOR DIVISIONS WILL BE WRESTLED AT THE END OF THE TOURNAMENT.

1 GOLD, 5 SILVER AND 6 BRONZE FOR THE SOUTH AFRICAN WRESTLING TEAM

The South African Senior Team achieved great heights when they attained the 1^st place in the Men’s Freestyle (15 countries), 5^th place in the Mens Greco-Roman (8 countries) and 4^th place in the Women’s division (14 countries) of the Team awards. The highlight of the event was Heinrich Barnes (NG) incredible performance in achieving gold in the 60-66 kg freestyle division. Our team brought home 12 medals in total and out of the 17 wrestlers that took part.

Final Results:

FREESTYLE

55KG - BOTHA Pierre - BRONZE (7 in weight)

60KG - DE JAGER Neels - SILVER (11 in weight)

66KG - BARNES Heinrich - GOUD (12 in weight)

74 KG - ADDINALL Richard - SILVER ( 8 in weight)

84 KG - DE VILLIERS Coenraad - SILVER (10 in weight)

96 KG - BELLA LUFU Kakouma - SILVER (5 in weight)

120 KG - JACOBS Dawie - 4de Plek (5 in weight)

GRECO-ROMAN

55KG - BOSSON Terrence - 6de Plek (6 in weight)

60KG - VAESSLER Rudi - 7de Plek (7 in weight)

66KG - VAN WYK Arrie - SILVER (6 in weight)

74KG - FIVAZ Juandre - 6de Plek (6 in weight)

96KG - VAN HUYSSTEEN Etienne - BRONZE (4 in weight)

120KG - ABRAHAMS Ryan - BRONZE (3 in weight)

FEMALE

51KG - MADI Mpo - BRONZE (3 in weight)

63KG - GERINGER Zumicke - BRONZE (8 in weight)

67KG - COETZEE SONJA - 5de Plek (5 in weight)

72KG - SMITH Desire - BRONZE (8 in weight)

Below are all results received from the Dave Shultz Tournament.

2008 Dave Schultz Memorial International Senior Freestyle Results

Team Score
Freestyle Team Standings: 1. Sunkist Kids, 41; 2. Belarus, 24; 3. (tie) Germany and New York AC, 23 pts.

Freestyle Outstanding Wrestler: Steve Mocco, Colorado Springs, Colo. (New York AC), 120 kg/264.5 lbs.


Results
55 kg/121 lbs.
1st - Naranbaatar Bayaraa (Mongolia) dec. Rizvan Gadzhiev (Belarus), 0-1, 1-0, 1-0
3rd - Stephen Abas, Colorado Springs, Colo. (Sunkist Kids) dec. Nick Simmons, Williamstown, Mich. (Sunkist Kids), 2-0, 1-0

60 kg/132 lbs.
1st - Angel Cejudo, Colorado Springs, Colo. (Sunkist Kids) dec. Aliaksandr Karnitski (Belarus), 1-0, 2-1
3rd - Sukhbaatar Sengedorji (Mongolia) dec. Zach Roberson, Tempe, Ariz. (Sunkist Kids), 4-2, 1-3, 1-0

66 kg/145.5 lbs.
1st - Trent Paulson, Council Bluffs, Iowa (Sunkist Kids) dec. Albert Batyrov (Belarus), 3-0, 3-0
3rd - Batzorig Buyanjav (Mongolia) dec. Adam Sobieraj (Poland), 2-0, 3-1

74 kg/163 lbs.
1st - Andriy Shyyka (Germany) pin Matyl Aliaksandr (Belarus), 1:48
3rd - Donny Pritzlaff, Madison, Wisc. (New York AC) dec. Matthew Gentry (Canada), 1-0, 1-4, 6-0

84 kg/185 lbs.
1st - Jake Herbert, Wexford, Pa. (New York AC) dec. over Davyd Bichinashvili (Germany), 7-0, 1-4, 4-3
3rd - Bryce Hasseman, Colorado Springs, Colo.(New York AC) dec. Clint Wattenberg, Ithaca, N.Y. (New York AC), 3-0, 1-1

96 kg/211.5 lbs.
1st - Sean Stender, Cedar Falls, Iowa (Sunkist Kids) dec. Stefan Kehrer (Germany), 2-1, 1-0
3rd - Wladyslaw Bartnicki (Poland) dec. Israel Silva, Chattanooga, Tenn. (Sunkist Kids), 3-0, 2-0

120 kg/264.5 lbs.
1st - Steve Mocco, Colorado Springs, Colo. (New York AC) dec. Markus Hamann (Germany), 1-0, 5-1
3rd - Les Sigman, Omaha, Neb. (Sunkist Kids) dec. Mike Faust, Coralville, Iowa (Gator WC), 4-0, 1-0