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Dare Kuti August 19, 2017 News ,  Wrestling           South African Wrestling Referee, Charles Villet, has been selected to officiate wrestling matches at the World Championship in Paris France. The South Africa Wrestling Federation expressed confidence in the ability of Charles Villet to deliver in highly rated tournament. In a statement available on the South Africa Wrestling social media page, the federation wished him best of luck and looked forward for the referee to make it to his second Olympics come Tokyo 2020. The statement read, “South Africa’s very own Olympic Referee and international instructor, Mr Charles Villet, departs tonight to Paris, France, for the United World Wrestling Senior World Wrestling Championships. “We wish him all the best and look forward to another great event in Olympic Wrestling”. The Olympic referee last year alongside 34 other referees officiated at the the Rio 2016 Olympic Games last year (Four African Referee

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PARIS (August 25) – The bureau of United World Wrestling wrapped up its week of meetings Thursday night at the Pullman Hotel in Bercy, passing several recommendations including the designation for the ten new weight categories and the announcement of host cities for the 2018 season. The new weight categories were the most deliberated issues of the meetings. Last year, United World Wrestling president stated the intention for wrestling to move from 8 to 10 weight categories, prompting speculation on how those new weights would be distributed and if they would affect the six Olympic weight categories. In the end, the bureau chose an overall moderate approach, looking to impact as few existing weight categories as possible. Freestyle will keep all their current Olympic and non-Olympic weight categories and will simply add 79kg and 92kg. 57kg -61kg- 65kg -70kg- 74kg -79kg- 86kg -92kg- 97kg - 125kg Women’s wrestling will increase the lowest weight from 48kg to 50kg a

PARIS (August 23) – Marwa AMRI (TUN) and Odunayo ADEKUOROYE (NGR) on Wednesday became the first women from Africa to march into the gold medal finals at a senior wrestling world championships. In the evening’s championship session, they will also try to become the first female world champions from Africa. Amri, a bronze medalist from the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, was the first to qualify for the gold medal round at AccorHotels Arena as she came from behind in the 58kg semifinals with a four-point takedown for an 8-7 win over two-time Asia champion Aisuluu TYNYBEKOVA (KGZ). Odunayo ADEKUOROYE (NGR) Adekuoroye, a Las Vegas 2015 world bronze medalist, rolled up a technical fall over European under-23 champion Irina KURACHKINA (BLR) in her 55kg semifinal to become the second African woman the gold medal finals.  In the championship bout at 55kg, Adekuoroye will take on cadet world champion Haruna OKUNO (JPN), who also advanced by technical fall,