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Cadet’s Excels in Algeria at Continental Championships

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This year’s Cadet and Junior Continental Championships took place in Algeria after the withdrawal of Cameroon as host country.
The teams departed on the 11th of July on a 21 hour Journey to Algiers.

The Junior and Cadet Teams wrestled over 3 days and managed to secure 23 medals, placing 1st in the FS Cadet Team rankings ahead of  Hosts Algeria and Egypt and 3rd in the Junior Greco Team Rankings.

 

 

Below are the final results

1.       Cadet Freestyle
•         42kg – Jacques Ludik – 3rd
•         46kg – Casey van Baalen – 2nd
•         46kg – Wiets Behr – 4th
•         50kg – Xander Coetzee – 1st
•         54kg – Edricj Nortje – 2nd
•         58kg – Francois Rossouw – 2nd
•         58kg – Arghale Muller – 5th
•         63kg – Luco Meyer – 3rd
•         63kg – Obed Ngoepe – 4th
•         69kg – Matthew Bartlett – 2nd
•         76kg – Zian Roux – 2nd
•         85kg – Jacques Kriel – 3rd
•         100kg – Alex Stenos – 2nd
•         100kg – Jean Jacques Kotze – 3rd
2.       Junior Freetyle
•         50kg – Jason Beukes – 3rd
•         55kg – Gift Chochi – 4th
•         60kg – Nico van den Berg – 5th
•         66kg – Tebou Mzimase – 6th
•         84kg – Dylan Marais – 2nd
•         120kg – Henk van Zyl – 3rd
3.       Cadet Greco Roman
•         50kg – Gershwin Farao – 4th
•         50kg – Rhyno Groenewald – 5th
•         54kg – Nicol van Schalkwyk – 3rd
•         58kg – JJ Ludick – 2nd
•         58kg – Ruben van den Berg – 4th
•         63kg – Jaundre van Riel – 4th
•         63kg – Ce-Jade Westraadt – 5th
•         69kg – Johan Hulme – 3rd
•         69kg – Machiel Grobler – 5th
•         76kg – Ondrej Dvoulety – 3rd
4.       Junior Greco Roman
•         50kg – Given Chochi – 4th
•         60kg – Titsetsang Khathali – 3rd
•         66kg – Onke Osadolor – 4th
•         74kg – Wiehan Whelan – 4th
•         84kg – Ian Nel – 3rd
5.       Cadet Woman
•         46kg – Lezandri Zandberg – 4th
•         56kg – Zuleike Ludick – 3rd
•         60kg – Cheyenne Smit – 2nd
6.       Junior Woman
•         44kg – Patricia Theledi – 3rd

United World Wrestling with the assistance of the Algerian Wrestling Federation hosted a Training Camp and Level 1 Coaching Course directly after the 2016 Continental Championships.

Each country who participated in the championships was allocated 9 places in the camp, 3 for woman, 3 for Greco and 3 for Free Style. The top wrestlers from each country were chosen by UWW based on their individual performances.

UWW launched the More than Medals program to promote and develop cadet wrestling. The training camps are part of a larger initiative to grow the sport amongst the youth. Part of this initiative was allowing Federations to enter more than one wrestler in each category and weight for the Continental Championships.
The wrestlers chosen to remain for the camp were:

1.    Freestyle
•         Xander Coetzee
•         Francois Rossouw
•         Matthew Bartlett
2.    Greco Roman
•         JJ Ludick
•         Ondrej Dvoulety
•         Johan Hulme
3.    Woman
•         Cheyenne Smit

The two coaches who stayed for the camp and attended the course were Hansie Kruger (FS & FW) and Kurt Herzog (GR)
We are extremely proud of all our wrestlers and coaches who participated, through hard work and dedication we managed to achieve excellent results and look forward to seeing these guys in action for many more years.