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By Gary Abbott USA Wrestling 11/06/2010 Eight U.S. wrestlers win gold at Hargobind International in Canada; Rowlands win $5k bonus prize SURREY, B.C., Canada – Eight U.S. wrestlers on gold medals at the Hargobind International on Saturday. The men’s division was held in its entirety on Saturday, along with the gold-medal finals of the women’s division in the four Olympic weights. The rest of the women’s tournament was held on Friday. Claiming gold medals in men’s freestyle were: • Shawn Bunch (Columbus, Ohio/G...

 Results to follow the event this coming Saturday!

By Gary Abbott USA Wrestling 10/11/2010 Tommy Rowlands in action at the 2007 World Championships. Larry Slater photo GROZNY, Russia - A pair of U.S. wrestlers claimed bronze medals at the Ramzan Kadirov Cup of freestyle wrestling, Oct. 9-10. Winning bronze medals were Nick Marable (Columbia, Mo./unattached) at 74 kg/163 lbs. and Tommy Rowlands (Hilliard, Ohio/Sunkist Kids) at 120 kg/264.5 lbs. Marable defeated Samuel Imeksuyan of Russia, 1-0, 0-2, 1-0 in the bronze-medal bout. He finished with a 4-1 record in the tournament. His only loss was ...

By Gary Abbott USA Wrestling 08/08/2010 SPALA, Poland – Two U.S. men’s freestyle wrestlers won medals on the last day of the Ziolkowski International on Sunday. Trent Paulson (Ames, Iowa/Sunkist Kids) claimed a silver medal at 74 kg/163 lbs., while Tommy Rowlands (Columbus, Ohio/Sunkist Kids) won a bronze medal at 120 kg/264.5 lbs. Paulson was defeated in the gold-medal finals by Gabor Hatos of Hungary, 1-0, 0-3, 0-2. Hatos was a 2006 European bronze medalist. Paulson won four straight matches to qualify for the finals, defeating Da...

(CNN) -- When it comes to the sport of wrestling, longtime adversaries Iran and the United States are friendly enemies. Andy Hrovat, right, seen wrestling Reineris Salas of Cuba, is among the U.S. wrestlers touring this winter. A U.S. freestyle men's wrestling team will go to the Islamic republic -- where the sport is widely popular -- for a prestigious tournament in March. Nine American wrestlers will take part in the Takhti Cup competition, scheduled for March 12-13, according to state Iranian media and USA Wrestling -- the national governing...

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JD Bergman defeated Jake Varner in 2 straight matches to make his first world team. JD won the first match with an amazing 3 pt double leg after a short scramble. In the 2nd match, JD came back from in the 1st period with his signature inside trip to win the period. In the 2nd period, he had a push out and another takedown to garner his victory. Tomorrow, Tommy Rowlands and Tervel Dlagnev will battle to earn their spot on the World Team.

The Ohio Regional Training Center athletes had a very successful weekend at the US Open this past weekend in Cleveland, OH. This tournament further set the ORTC as the premier training center in the United States. Shawn Bunch took gold after defeating Mike Zadick in the finals in straight periods. JD topped 2x NCAA champion Jake Varner in 3 periods. Besides the 2 champions, the ORTC had much other success. Reece Humphrey took 4th, Tervel Dlagnev took 2nd and Tommy Rowlands took 3rd. Also placing, Nikko Triggas took 6th in th...

Tervel Dlagnev and JD Bergman continued their impressive international winter tour by medaling at the Medved International in Belarus. Known as one of the toughest tournaments in the world, these Ohio RTC athletes are making their mark. Tervel went 5-0, including a 3 period win in the finals against Alan Tsarikaev of Russia in the finals. JD went 3-1, falling to Valerii Andriitsev of Ukraine in the finals. National Team Coach Brandon Slay had this to say about the two: “Tervel has a priceless attitude which encompasses being coachabl...