2004 Athens Olympic Games

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2004 OLYMPIC'S Women's Wrestling 2004 Athens Olympics - Women's Wrestling photos

10/20/2004 71 Photos

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Wrestling

   

Sport of the Month: Wrestling

The sport of Wrestling offers spectators great excitement due to its rare techniques, the quick changes in the score, as well as the strength, the combative spirit and the amazing physical attributes of the wrestlers.

Based on historic evidence, Wrestling as a sport can be found in many civilizations. In ancient Greece, Wrestling was one of the most popular sports, conducted by athletes in the nude. In modern history, Greek athletes have won many distinctions in this specific sport, which continues to be included among the most popular sports in Greece.

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Wrestling has two styles: greco-roman and free style.
In the greco-roman style, holds are allowed from the waist up, while in free style holds are allowed on the whole body. Matches in both styles consist of two, three-minute parts, with a 30 second interval.

ATHENS 2004 Wrestling

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At the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games, Wrestling took place at the Ano Liossia Olympic Hall, which has a seating capacity of 9,150 spectators. The competition programme had been completed within eight days, from August 22 to August 29, 2004.
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Commonwealth Nations  wrestlers at the 2004 Olympics

Australia -    Talgat Ilyasov 

Canada -  ( click on athletes name for full profile)

Men -   Guivi Sissaouri  (60kg) ,  Evan MacDonald   (66kg) ,  Daniel Igali (74kg)

Women  - Lyndsay Belisle  - 48 kilograms,    Tonya Verbeek     - 55 kilograms

                         - Viola Yanik    - 63 kilograms,     - Christine Nordhagen   - 72 kilograms

 

Great Britain  -  Nate Ackerman (74kg)

India - 

Yogesh Dutt  (55kg) ,  Sushil Kumar (60kg) , Ramesh Kumar (66kg)

Sujeet Mann (74kg) ,  Anuj Chaudhary (85kg) , Pawilder Cheema (120kg)

Mukesh Khatari (55kg) - Greco-Roman

 

Namibia -   Nico Jacobs (96kg)

Nigeria -   Fred Jesse (55kg)

South Africa -  Saun Williams (55kg)

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Canada's women's wrestling team heads into Athens  

(CP) - There could be a medal bonanza for Canada when women's freestyle wrestling makes its Olympic debut in Athens. "We have a very strong team," said Todd Hinds, the Canadian women's assistant coach. "We've got four medal hopefuls - four true medal hopefuls." _______________________________________________________________________