HIGH PERFORMANCE

ASSISTANT HIGH PERFORMANCE AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGER- APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN

Wrestling Australia are asking for Expressions of Interest for the position of Assistant High Performance and Development Manager.

Please see here for the position description and here for the expression of interest form.

All applicants are asked to compete the expression of interest form and return this to admin@wrestling.com.au along with the required paperwork by the 23^rd of September.

Incomplete or late applications will not be accepted.

Africa and Oceania Olympic Games Qualifier 

The Africa and Oceania Olympic Games Qualifier was conducted in Tunisia from the 2nd-4th April 2021.  Wrestling Australia send four wrestlers to the Olympic Qualifier:

65kgs Freestyle- Mostafa Rezaeifar

86kgs Freestyle- Jayden Lawrence

97kgs- Thomas Barns

53kgs Females- Irene Symeonidis

The team was accompanied by the Head Coach Aminullah Yaqhobi

Appointment of High Performance Roles

The following 2 National Coaching Roles were appointed in October 2020, these positions will be in place for 1 years:

Assistant Greco-Roman Coach- Amir Gholiizadeh

Assistant High Performance and Development Manager- Jakob Panotas

Assistant Female Coach- Carissa Holland

Appointment of Nationals Coaching Role

The following 6 Nationals Coaching Roles were appointed in October 2019, these positions will be in place for 2 years.

Nationals Head Coach- Aminullah Yaqhobi

National Skills Coach- Talgat Ilyasov

Nationals Greco-Roman Coach- Adrian Tesanovic

Nationals Assistant Greco-Roman Coach- Ben Keaney

National Female Coach- Ainura Igamberdyyeva

National High Performance and Development Manager- Brett Cash.

2019 Senior World Championships

Wrestling Australia will be sending a team of 3 athletes to the 2019 Senior World Championships:

Female 76kgs- Naomi De Bruine

Female 55kgs: Irene Symeonidis

Male 70kgs: Josh Riley

Good luck to all competitors..

2018 Youth Olympic Games

Wrestling Australia is happy to have one representative at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games:

110kg Male- Thomas Barns

Thomas will be accompanied to the event by National Skills Coach

Good Luck to Thomas.

2018 Commonwealth Games

Wrestling Australia is happy to announce that the following eight athletes will represent Australia at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast:

50kg Female- Rupinder Kaur

53kg Female- Carissa Holland

76kg Female- Naomi De Bruine

57kg Male- Tom Cicchini

65kg Male- Mehrdad Tarash

74kg Male- Connor Evans

86kgs Male- Jayden Lawrence

97ks Male- Nick Verreynne

Good Luck to all competitors..

2017 Senior World Wrestling Championships 

Wrestling Australia is happy to announce that the following six athletes have been selected to compete at the 2017 Senior Worlds Wrestling Championships .  The event is being held in France, Paris between the 21st to 26th August.

The following two coaches will attend the team to the event: Konstantin Ermakovic.

2017 Cadet World Wrestling Championships

Wrestling Australia is happy to announce that one athlete will be representing Australia at the 2017 Cadet World Wrestling Championships.

Tom Barns- 100kgs

Alan Landy will be accompanying Tom to the competition.

2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games 

Wrestling Australia is happy to announce that the following six athletes have been selected to compete at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games.

The following two coaches will accompany the Wrestling Team:
Konstantin Ermakovic
Brett Cash

The Games are being between the 17th-27th September in Ashgabat, Turkenistan.

More information can be found here:http://corporate.olympics.com.au/news/eighteen-athletes-selected-for-ashgabat-2017

Good Luck to all wrestlers and coaches.