Heute ist der 19.05.2025
Datum: 19.05.2025 - Source 1 (https://www.laola1.at/de/red/sport-mix/mehr-sport/wrestling/naechster-oesterreicher--fara-wird-gunther-wwe-kollege/):
- WWE erhält neuen Zuwachs aus Österreich.
- "Gunther" (Walter Hahn) trat 2019 in die Wrestling-Meisterschaft ein.
- Aaron Fara, Judo-Goldmedaillenträger des 2023 IJF Grand Slam, wird am 18. Mai 2025 Teil der WWE.
- Fara ist Teilnehmer an den Olympischen Spielen 2024 in Paris.
- Fara unterschreibt einen "Development Vertrag" zusammen mit:
- Shady Elnahas (Ex-Judo-Goldmedaillen-Gewinner aus Kanada).
- Francois Prinsloo (Südafrika, im Bereich Track and Field).
- Das Trio wird zunächst im Performance Center untergebracht, bevor sie auf die WWE-Bühne gehen.
Source 3 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrestling_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics):
- Wrestling competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris
- Dates: 5 to 11 August 2024
- Venue: Grand Palais Éphémère, Champ de Mars
- Total competitors: 288 wrestlers
- Weight categories: 18 (12 men, 6 women)
- Men's events: Freestyle and Greco-Roman
- Women's events: Freestyle only
- Total gold medals awarded: 18
- Wrestling has been part of every modern Summer Olympic Games except Paris 1900
- Mijaín López won gold in Greco-Roman wrestling 130 kg, achieving five consecutive gold medals in the same event
- Japan topped the medal table for the fourth time
- Competition format: Single-elimination tournament with repechage for bronze medals
- Each division features 16 wrestlers
- Qualification: 288 quota places available through three competition phases
- Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can qualify one wrestler per weight class
- No host country spots allocated in wrestling
- Qualification period began at the 2023 World Wrestling Championships (16-24 September 2023, Belgrade, Serbia)
- Five quota places awarded per weight category to four medalists and the champion of a bout between two bronze medal match losers
- Four continental qualification tournaments at the start of the 2024 season distributed 144 spots to top two finalists from each continent
- Remaining quota decided at the 2024 World Qualification Tournament, offering three quota places per weight category
- Azerbaijani qualification match-fixing scandal: Italian wrestler Frank Chamizo offered $300,000 to lose to Turan Bayramov, which he refused
- Controversial referee decision led to Bayramov winning; referee body suspended after independent review
- Chamizo qualified by ranking due to redistribution of Olympic spots after denial of athletes from Russia and Belarus
- 60 participating nations in total