Anthony gets gold, Ragan and Perrelli add silver, Maroulis and Dieringer take bronze at Outstanding Ukrainian Memorial
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by Gary Abbott, USA Wrestling
Victoria Anthony receives the gold medal at 48 kg at the Outstanding Ukrainian Wrestlers and Coaches Memorial in Kiev. Photo by Terry Steiner.
KIEV, Ukraine – Victoria Anthony (Tempe, Ariz./Sunkist Kids) won a gold medal as five U.S. wrestlers captured medals on the first day of the Outstanding Ukrainian Wrestlers and Coaches Memorial. The United States had seven men and four women competing on Friday.
In the championship finals at 48 kg/105.5 lbs., Anthony defeated 2015 Junior World champion Turkan Nasirova of Azerbaijan in a 10-0 technical fall. Anthony, a two-time Junior World Champion, was also fifth at the 2013 Senior World Championships.
Anthony opened with an 8-0 decision over Katharina Baumgartner of Germany, 8-0, then stopped Ilona Semkiv of Ukraine, 6-3 in the semifinals.
“I definitely had a slow start for the day. I didn’t feel like I had my offense going in the first couple of matches. I felt really good in the finals. It was good to start feeling like myself, wrestling like myself, and getting to my scores,” said Anthony.
2016 World silver medalist Alli Ragan claimed a silver medal at 60 kg/132 lbs., falling to 2016 European U23 champion Tetyana Omelchenko of Azerbaijan in the finals, 5-2.
Ragan opened with a 10-8 win over 2016 Junior World silver medalist Anhelina Lysak of Ukraine 10-8. In the semifinals, she stopped 2016 University World silver medalist Gabriella Sleisz of Hungary, 4-1.
Winning a silver medal at 57 kg/125.5 lbs was Frank Perrelli (Charlottesville, Va./Titan Mercury WC), who was defeated in the finals by 2016 European silver medalist Andre Yatsenko of Ukraine, 3-2.
Perrelli won his first three matches to reach the finals. He beat a pair of wrestlers from Belarus right off the bat, stopping Andrei Bekreneu, 6-4 and Dzimchyk Rynchynau, 5-5. In the semifinals, he dominated 2009 Junior World bronze medalist Mikhail Ivanov of Russia with a 10-0 technical fall
2016 Olympic champion Helen Maroulis (Rockville, Md./Sunkist Kids) won a bronze medal in her first competition since claiming the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was competing at 60 kg/132 lbs., which is up three weight classes from where she won the Olympics at 53 kg/116.5 lbs.
Maroulis won her first match over Mariia Ilchyshyn of Ukraine, 4-2. In her second match, Maroulis was defeated by Omelchenko by pin. It snapped her 64-match winning streak, the longest among U.S. wrestlers. The last time that Maroulis lost was at the 2014 World Championships in Uzbekistan in September 2014, where she fell to Japan’s Chiho Hamada, 6-2.
In her bronze medal match, Maroulis scored a 10-0 technical fall over Iryna Koliadenko of Ukraine.
Three-time NCAA champion and Freestyle National Team member Alex Dieringer won a bronze medal for the USA in men’s freestyle at 74 kg/163 lbs.
Dieringer opened with a pair of wins, stopping Rustam Rasuiev of Ukraine and Svetoslav Dimitrov of Bulgaria. In the semifinals, Dieringer lost 7-5 to Reza Afzalipaemami of Iran, a 2012 and 2016 University World champion and 2014 Asian Senior champion. Afzalipaemami went on to win the gold. Dieringer rebounded by pinning Oleksiy Scherbak of Ukraine in the bronze-medal bout.
Two Americans placed fifth after losing bronze-medal bouts, Sarah Hildebrandt (Colorado Springs, Colo./New York AC/OTC) at 55 kg/121 lbs. in women’s freestyle and Nathan Burak (Iowa City, Iowa/Hawkeye WC) at 97 kg/213 lbs. in men’s freestyle.
"Our team performance on day one was encouraging. Specifically, in the three athletes that wrestled for medals we saw them executing skills and winning position battles. Frank Perrelli showed his offensive prowess putting up a lot of points, staying in the fight and opening up leads in hard fought matches on his way to a silver medal. Alex Dieringer continues to prove his ability winning a bronze. We have four great athletes stepping on the mat tomorrow with Green, Chamberlain, Trotman and Nelson. I'm excited to watch their performances and I think it will be a fun day," said National Freestyle Coach Bill Zadick.
The USA will have four men and four women competing on Saturday. Included among the USA entries will be 2012 Olympian Kelsey Campbell and 2016 Olympian Haley Augello in women’s freestyle and 2015 World bronze medalist James Green in men’s freestyle. Their draws are listed below.
The Ukrainian Wrestling Federation has set up a live webcast on its results page for the event. To keep up with the action, click the link below.
http://sport-tv.com.ua/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1&lang=en
XXI OUTSTANDING UKRAINIAN WRESTLERS AND COACHES MEMORIAL 2017
at Kiev, Ukraine, March 3
Women’s freestyle results
48 kg/105.5 lbs.
Gold – Victoria Anthony (USA)
Silver – Turkan Nasirova (Azerbaijan)
Bronze – Ilona Semkiv (Ukraine)
Bornze – Oksana Livach (Ukraine)
55 kg/121 lbs.
Gold – Olena Kremzer (Ukraine)
Silver – Iryna Kurachkina (Belarus)
Bronze – Tetiana Kit (Ukraine)
Bronze – Ramona Galambos (Hungary)
60 kg/130 lbs.
Gold – Tetiana Olmelchenko (Azerbaijan)
Silver – Alli Ragan (USA)
Bronze – Anhelina Lysak (Ukraine)
Bronze – Helen Maroulis (USA)
69 kg/152 lbs.
Gold – Alla Cherkasova (Ukraine)
Silver – Alla Belinska (Ukraine)
Bronze – Ilana Kratysh (Israel)
Bronze – Aline Focken (Germany)
U.S. women’s freestyle results
48 kg/105.5 lbs.- Victoria Anthony, Tempe, Ariz. (Sunkist Kids), gold medal
WIN Katharina Baumgartner (Germany), 8-0
WIN Ilona Semkiv (Ukraine), 6-3
WIN Turkan Nasirova (Azerbaijan), tech. fall 10-0
55 kg/121 lbs.- Sarah Hildebrandt, Colorado Springs, Colo. (New York AC/OTC), 5th
LOSS Olena Kremzer (Ukraine), 4-4
LOSS Tetiana Kit (Ukraine), 2-2
60 kg/132 lbs.- - Helen Maroulis, Huntington Beach, Calif. (Sunkist Kids), bronze medal
WIN Mariia Ilchyshyn (Ukraine), 4-2
LOSS Tetiana Omelchenko (Azerbaijan), pin
WIN Iryna Koliadenko (Ukraine), tech. fall 10-0
60 kg/132 lbs.- Alli Ragan, Colorado Springs, Colo. (Sunkist Kids), silver medal
WIN Anhelina Lysak (Ukraine), 10-8
WIN Gabriella Sleisz (Hungary), 4-1
LOSS Tetyana Omelchenko (Azerbaijan), 5-2
Men’s freestyle results
57 kg/125.5 lbs.
Gold – Andriy Yatsenko (Ukraine)
Silver – Frank Perrelli (USA)
Bronze – Andrei Bekreneu (Belarus)
Bronze – Reza Atrinacharchi (Iran)
65 kg/143 lbs.
Gold – George Bucar (Romania)
Silver – Gor Ogannesyan (Ukraine)
Bronze – Magomed Muslimov (Azerbaijan)
Bronze – Gitinomagomed Gadjiyev (Azerbaijan)
74 kg/163 lbs.
Gold - Reza Afzalipaemami (Iran)
Silver – Rasul Tsikhayeu (Belarus)
Bronze – Alex Dieringer (USA)
Bronze – Lennard Wickel (Germany)
97 kg/213 lbs.
Gold – Aliaksandr Hushtyn (Belarus)
Silver – Mihail Ganev (Bulgaria)
Brozne – Hossein Shahbazigazvar (Iran)
Bronze – Murazi Mchedlidze (Ukraine)
U.S. men’s freestyle results
57 kg/125.5 lbs.- Frank Perrelli, Charlottesville, Va., silver medal
WIN Andrei Bekreneu (Belarus), 6-4
WIN Dzimchyk Rynchynau (Belarus), 5-5
WIN Mikhail Ivanov (Russia), tech. fall 10-0
LOSS Andre Yatsenko (Ukraine), 3-2
65 kg/143 lbs.- Evan Henderson, Chapel Hill, N.C. (North Carolina RTC)
WIN Gabriel Janatsch (Austria) tech. fall 10-0
LOSS Gitinomagomed Gadjiev (Azerbaijan), 10-4
74 kg/163 lbs.- Alex Dieringer, Stillwater, Okla. (Titan Mercury WC), bronze medal
WIN Rustam Rasuiev (Ukraine), 4-2
WIN Svetoslav Dimitrov (Bulgaria), tech. fall 11-1
LOSS Reza Afzalipaemami (Iran), 7-5
WIN Oleksiy Scherbak (Ukraine), pin
97 kg/213 lbs.- Micah Burak, Colorado Springs, Colo. (Titan Mercury WC)
LOSS Dustin Kilgore (USA), 5-2
97 kg/213 lbs.- Nathan Burak, Iowa City, Iowa (Hawkeye WC), 5th place
WIN Sergiy Mokhort (Ukraine), 6-2
WIN Kyrlo Mieshkov (Ukraine), tech. fall 10-0
WIN Yevgeniy Kolomivets (Russia), 5-2
LOSS Mihael Ganev (Bulgaria), 1-1
LOSS Murazi Mchedlidze (Ukraine), 4-1
97 kg/213 lbs.- Dustin Kilgore, Colorado Springs, Colo. (Sunkist Kids)
WIN Micah Burak (USA), 5-2
LOSS Yevgeniy Kolomivets (Russia), 9-4
97 kg/213 lbs.- Kallen Kleinschmidt, Colorado Springs, Colo. (New York AC)
WIN Pavlo Oliynyk (Ukraine)
LOSS Aliaksandr Hushtyn (Belarus), pin
LOSS Gabriel Seregelyi (Germany), 6-2
SATURDAY PAIRINGS
U.S. women’s freestyle pairings
53 kg/116.5 lbs.- Haley Augello, Lockport, Ill. (New York AC)
Vs. Larysa Skobliuk (Ukraine), 2015 European U23 bronze medalist, 2013 Junior World silver medalist
58 kg/128 lbs.- Kelsey Campbell, Tempe, Ariz. (Sunkist Kids)
Vs. Iryna Chykhradze (Ukraine), 2014 World bronze medalist, 2012 World University silver medalist
60 kg/132 lbs.- Amanda Hendey, San Gabriel, Calif. (Titan Mercury WC)
Vs. Elmira Gambarova (Azerbaijan), 3rd in 2015 European U23 Championships, 5th in 2014 Junior Worlds
69 kg/152 lbs.- Erin Clodgo, Colorado Springs, Colo. (Sunkist Kids)
Vs, Veronika Pavluk (Ukraine), 5th in 2013 Junior Worlds
Men’s Freestyle Pairings
70 kg/154 lbs.- James Green, Lincoln, Neb. (Titan Mercury WC)
Vs. winner of Surho Rashytkhanau (Belarus) and Maher Ghanmi (Tunisia)
70 kg/154 lbs.- Jason Chamberlain, Fresno, Calif. (Titan Mercury WC)
Vs. Stepan Lvlyk (Ukraine), 3rd in 2015 European Cadet Championships
86 kg/189 lbs.- Austin Trotman, Lincoln, Neb. (Titan Mercury WC0
Vs. Denis Balaur (Moldova), 5th in 2014 University Worlds, 2nd in 2014 Henri Deglane (France)
120 kg/275 lbs.- Tony Nelson, Minneapolis, Minn. (Minnesota Storm)
Vs. Tarik Azzouzi (Belgium)
KIEV, Ukraine – Victoria Anthony (Tempe, Ariz./Sunkist Kids) won a gold medal as five U.S. wrestlers captured medals on the first day of the Outstanding Ukrainian Wrestlers and Coaches Memorial. The United States had seven men and four women competing on Friday.
In the championship finals at 48 kg/105.5 lbs., Anthony defeated 2015 Junior World champion Turkan Nasirova of Azerbaijan in a 10-0 technical fall. Anthony, a two-time Junior World Champion, was also fifth at the 2013 Senior World Championships.
Anthony opened with an 8-0 decision over Katharina Baumgartner of Germany, 8-0, then stopped Ilona Semkiv of Ukraine, 6-3 in the semifinals.
“I definitely had a slow start for the day. I didn’t feel like I had my offense going in the first couple of matches. I felt really good in the finals. It was good to start feeling like myself, wrestling like myself, and getting to my scores,” said Anthony.
2016 World silver medalist Alli Ragan claimed a silver medal at 60 kg/132 lbs., falling to 2016 European U23 champion Tetyana Omelchenko of Azerbaijan in the finals, 5-2.
Ragan opened with a 10-8 win over 2016 Junior World silver medalist Anhelina Lysak of Ukraine 10-8. In the semifinals, she stopped 2016 University World silver medalist Gabriella Sleisz of Hungary, 4-1.
Winning a silver medal at 57 kg/125.5 lbs was Frank Perrelli (Charlottesville, Va./Titan Mercury WC), who was defeated in the finals by 2016 European silver medalist Andre Yatsenko of Ukraine, 3-2.
Perrelli won his first three matches to reach the finals. He beat a pair of wrestlers from Belarus right off the bat, stopping Andrei Bekreneu, 6-4 and Dzimchyk Rynchynau, 5-5. In the semifinals, he dominated 2009 Junior World bronze medalist Mikhail Ivanov of Russia with a 10-0 technical fall
2016 Olympic champion Helen Maroulis (Rockville, Md./Sunkist Kids) won a bronze medal in her first competition since claiming the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was competing at 60 kg/132 lbs., which is up three weight classes from where she won the Olympics at 53 kg/116.5 lbs.
Maroulis won her first match over Mariia Ilchyshyn of Ukraine, 4-2. In her second match, Maroulis was defeated by Omelchenko by pin. It snapped her 64-match winning streak, the longest among U.S. wrestlers. The last time that Maroulis lost was at the 2014 World Championships in Uzbekistan in September 2014, where she fell to Japan’s Chiho Hamada, 6-2.
In her bronze medal match, Maroulis scored a 10-0 technical fall over Iryna Koliadenko of Ukraine.
Three-time NCAA champion and Freestyle National Team member Alex Dieringer won a bronze medal for the USA in men’s freestyle at 74 kg/163 lbs.
Dieringer opened with a pair of wins, stopping Rustam Rasuiev of Ukraine and Svetoslav Dimitrov of Bulgaria. In the semifinals, Dieringer lost 7-5 to Reza Afzalipaemami of Iran, a 2012 and 2016 University World champion and 2014 Asian Senior champion. Afzalipaemami went on to win the gold. Dieringer rebounded by pinning Oleksiy Scherbak of Ukraine in the bronze-medal bout.
Two Americans placed fifth after losing bronze-medal bouts, Sarah Hildebrandt (Colorado Springs, Colo./New York AC/OTC) at 55 kg/121 lbs. in women’s freestyle and Nathan Burak (Iowa City, Iowa/Hawkeye WC) at 97 kg/213 lbs. in men’s freestyle.
"Our team performance on day one was encouraging. Specifically, in the three athletes that wrestled for medals we saw them executing skills and winning position battles. Frank Perrelli showed his offensive prowess putting up a lot of points, staying in the fight and opening up leads in hard fought matches on his way to a silver medal. Alex Dieringer continues to prove his ability winning a bronze. We have four great athletes stepping on the mat tomorrow with Green, Chamberlain, Trotman and Nelson. I'm excited to watch their performances and I think it will be a fun day," said National Freestyle Coach Bill Zadick.
The USA will have four men and four women competing on Saturday. Included among the USA entries will be 2012 Olympian Kelsey Campbell and 2016 Olympian Haley Augello in women’s freestyle and 2015 World bronze medalist James Green in men’s freestyle. Their draws are listed below.
The Ukrainian Wrestling Federation has set up a live webcast on its results page for the event. To keep up with the action, click the link below.
http://sport-tv.com.ua/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1&lang=en
XXI OUTSTANDING UKRAINIAN WRESTLERS AND COACHES MEMORIAL 2017
at Kiev, Ukraine, March 3
Women’s freestyle results
48 kg/105.5 lbs.
Gold – Victoria Anthony (USA)
Silver – Turkan Nasirova (Azerbaijan)
Bronze – Ilona Semkiv (Ukraine)
Bornze – Oksana Livach (Ukraine)
55 kg/121 lbs.
Gold – Olena Kremzer (Ukraine)
Silver – Iryna Kurachkina (Belarus)
Bronze – Tetiana Kit (Ukraine)
Bronze – Ramona Galambos (Hungary)
60 kg/130 lbs.
Gold – Tetiana Olmelchenko (Azerbaijan)
Silver – Alli Ragan (USA)
Bronze – Anhelina Lysak (Ukraine)
Bronze – Helen Maroulis (USA)
69 kg/152 lbs.
Gold – Alla Cherkasova (Ukraine)
Silver – Alla Belinska (Ukraine)
Bronze – Ilana Kratysh (Israel)
Bronze – Aline Focken (Germany)
U.S. women’s freestyle results
48 kg/105.5 lbs.- Victoria Anthony, Tempe, Ariz. (Sunkist Kids), gold medal
WIN Katharina Baumgartner (Germany), 8-0
WIN Ilona Semkiv (Ukraine), 6-3
WIN Turkan Nasirova (Azerbaijan), tech. fall 10-0
55 kg/121 lbs.- Sarah Hildebrandt, Colorado Springs, Colo. (New York AC/OTC), 5th
LOSS Olena Kremzer (Ukraine), 4-4
LOSS Tetiana Kit (Ukraine), 2-2
60 kg/132 lbs.- - Helen Maroulis, Huntington Beach, Calif. (Sunkist Kids), bronze medal
WIN Mariia Ilchyshyn (Ukraine), 4-2
LOSS Tetiana Omelchenko (Azerbaijan), pin
WIN Iryna Koliadenko (Ukraine), tech. fall 10-0
60 kg/132 lbs.- Alli Ragan, Colorado Springs, Colo. (Sunkist Kids), silver medal
WIN Anhelina Lysak (Ukraine), 10-8
WIN Gabriella Sleisz (Hungary), 4-1
LOSS Tetyana Omelchenko (Azerbaijan), 5-2
Men’s freestyle results
57 kg/125.5 lbs.
Gold – Andriy Yatsenko (Ukraine)
Silver – Frank Perrelli (USA)
Bronze – Andrei Bekreneu (Belarus)
Bronze – Reza Atrinacharchi (Iran)
65 kg/143 lbs.
Gold – George Bucar (Romania)
Silver – Gor Ogannesyan (Ukraine)
Bronze – Magomed Muslimov (Azerbaijan)
Bronze – Gitinomagomed Gadjiyev (Azerbaijan)
74 kg/163 lbs.
Gold - Reza Afzalipaemami (Iran)
Silver – Rasul Tsikhayeu (Belarus)
Bronze – Alex Dieringer (USA)
Bronze – Lennard Wickel (Germany)
97 kg/213 lbs.
Gold – Aliaksandr Hushtyn (Belarus)
Silver – Mihail Ganev (Bulgaria)
Brozne – Hossein Shahbazigazvar (Iran)
Bronze – Murazi Mchedlidze (Ukraine)
U.S. men’s freestyle results
57 kg/125.5 lbs.- Frank Perrelli, Charlottesville, Va., silver medal
WIN Andrei Bekreneu (Belarus), 6-4
WIN Dzimchyk Rynchynau (Belarus), 5-5
WIN Mikhail Ivanov (Russia), tech. fall 10-0
LOSS Andre Yatsenko (Ukraine), 3-2
65 kg/143 lbs.- Evan Henderson, Chapel Hill, N.C. (North Carolina RTC)
WIN Gabriel Janatsch (Austria) tech. fall 10-0
LOSS Gitinomagomed Gadjiev (Azerbaijan), 10-4
74 kg/163 lbs.- Alex Dieringer, Stillwater, Okla. (Titan Mercury WC), bronze medal
WIN Rustam Rasuiev (Ukraine), 4-2
WIN Svetoslav Dimitrov (Bulgaria), tech. fall 11-1
LOSS Reza Afzalipaemami (Iran), 7-5
WIN Oleksiy Scherbak (Ukraine), pin
97 kg/213 lbs.- Micah Burak, Colorado Springs, Colo. (Titan Mercury WC)
LOSS Dustin Kilgore (USA), 5-2
97 kg/213 lbs.- Nathan Burak, Iowa City, Iowa (Hawkeye WC), 5th place
WIN Sergiy Mokhort (Ukraine), 6-2
WIN Kyrlo Mieshkov (Ukraine), tech. fall 10-0
WIN Yevgeniy Kolomivets (Russia), 5-2
LOSS Mihael Ganev (Bulgaria), 1-1
LOSS Murazi Mchedlidze (Ukraine), 4-1
97 kg/213 lbs.- Dustin Kilgore, Colorado Springs, Colo. (Sunkist Kids)
WIN Micah Burak (USA), 5-2
LOSS Yevgeniy Kolomivets (Russia), 9-4
97 kg/213 lbs.- Kallen Kleinschmidt, Colorado Springs, Colo. (New York AC)
WIN Pavlo Oliynyk (Ukraine)
LOSS Aliaksandr Hushtyn (Belarus), pin
LOSS Gabriel Seregelyi (Germany), 6-2
SATURDAY PAIRINGS
U.S. women’s freestyle pairings
53 kg/116.5 lbs.- Haley Augello, Lockport, Ill. (New York AC)
Vs. Larysa Skobliuk (Ukraine), 2015 European U23 bronze medalist, 2013 Junior World silver medalist
58 kg/128 lbs.- Kelsey Campbell, Tempe, Ariz. (Sunkist Kids)
Vs. Iryna Chykhradze (Ukraine), 2014 World bronze medalist, 2012 World University silver medalist
60 kg/132 lbs.- Amanda Hendey, San Gabriel, Calif. (Titan Mercury WC)
Vs. Elmira Gambarova (Azerbaijan), 3rd in 2015 European U23 Championships, 5th in 2014 Junior Worlds
69 kg/152 lbs.- Erin Clodgo, Colorado Springs, Colo. (Sunkist Kids)
Vs, Veronika Pavluk (Ukraine), 5th in 2013 Junior Worlds
Men’s Freestyle Pairings
70 kg/154 lbs.- James Green, Lincoln, Neb. (Titan Mercury WC)
Vs. winner of Surho Rashytkhanau (Belarus) and Maher Ghanmi (Tunisia)
70 kg/154 lbs.- Jason Chamberlain, Fresno, Calif. (Titan Mercury WC)
Vs. Stepan Lvlyk (Ukraine), 3rd in 2015 European Cadet Championships
86 kg/189 lbs.- Austin Trotman, Lincoln, Neb. (Titan Mercury WC0
Vs. Denis Balaur (Moldova), 5th in 2014 University Worlds, 2nd in 2014 Henri Deglane (France)
120 kg/275 lbs.- Tony Nelson, Minneapolis, Minn. (Minnesota Storm)
Vs. Tarik Azzouzi (Belgium)
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