Wrestling Australia Life Membership
Wrestling Australia Life Membership
Life Membership is the highest honour that can be bestowed by Wrestling Australia for longstanding and valued service to the sport of Wrestling and Associated Styles in Australia.
The sole and primary objectives for awarding a Wrestling Australia Life Membership is;
“To publicly recognise and honour the outstanding dedications, loyalty, service and/or contribution that an individual has made over a period of time or as a result of as significant milestone and/or achievement to Wrestling in Australia”.
Life Memberships Categories
It is recognised that many individuals give countless hours of their time, unquestionable loyalty and a dedicated service to Wrestling in Australia in a number of different roles. Wrestling Australia acknowledges that without these dedicated people, the sport of Wrestling cannot and could not prosper and would not have provided these basic enjoyments to the community and Australia.
In recognition of these dedicated people, Wrestling Australia has created two categories of Life Membership-
- a Gold Life Membership, and
- a Silver Life Membership
On the 25th October 2020 the following people were elected as Gold Life Members of Wrestling Australia
| Name | State | Recognition |
| John Saul | NSW | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a volunteer and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| Donald Brown | NSW | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of Wrestling as an official, coach, volunteer and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| John Kinsela | NSW | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of Wrestling as a coach and volunteer over a period of 10 years |
| Samuel Parker | VIC | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of Wrestling as a coach, volunteer and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| Kuldip Bassi | VIC | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a committee member over a period of 10 years |
| Les Neal | VIC | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a committee member over a period of 10 years |
| Brian Hodgson | VIC | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as an official and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| Lubo Hofr | SA | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of Wrestling as a coach, volunteer and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| David Schumacher | SA | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a volunteer and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| Robert Franklin | QLD | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a coach and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| Yuri Markov | QLD | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of Wrestling as a coach and volunteer over a period of 10 years |
| Witold Rejlich | ACT | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of Wrestling as a coach and volunteer over a period of 10 years |
| Anthony Goonan | ACT | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a volunteer and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| Christopher Samios | WA | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of Wrestling as an official, coach, volunteer and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| George Samios | WA | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a volunteer and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| Kaye Ortis | SA | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a volunteer and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| Talgat Ilyasov | VIC | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling in a High-Performance Capacity over a period of 10 years |
| Larry Papadopoulos | NSW | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of Wrestling as an official, coach, volunteer and committee member over a period of 10 years |
On the 25th October 2020 the following people were elected as Silver Life Members of Wrestling Australia
| Waldemar Chadzynski | QLD | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a volunteer over a period of 5 years |
| Todd Lawler | QLD | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a volunteer and committee member over a period of 5 years |
| Brett Cash | NSW | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling in a High- Performance Capacity over a period of 5 years |
| Alan Landy | WA | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling in a High- Performance capacity over a period of 5 years |
| Konstantin Ermakovich | VIC | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling in a High- Performance capacity over a period of 5 years |
