To Our Friends in Wrestling Around the world

                    

By William May
(Japan Amateur Wrestling Federation, Public Information Committee
Kyodo World Services, senior sports writer:wmay52@hotmail.com


OLYMPIC WOMEN'S WRESTLING POOLS



   
    ATHENS (August 21) - Pool groupings for the women's wrestling competition August 22-23 at Ano Liossia Olympic Hall:

48 kg (14 entries)

Pool A - Chiharu Icho (JPN), Lyndsay Belisle (CAN), Brigitte Wagner (GER)
Pool B - Angelique Berthenet (FRA), Tsogtbazar Enkhjargal (MGL), Ross Davyes (GBS)
Pool C - Fani Psatha (GRE), Fahila Louati (TUN), Lidia Karamchakova (TJK), Irini Merlini (UKR)
Pool D - Patricia Miranda (USA), Li Hui (CHN), Larisa Oorzhak (RUS), Mayelis Caripa (VEN)
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55 kg (12 entries)

Pool A - Tela O'Donnell (USA), Olga Smirnova (RUS), Tonya Verbeek (CAN)
Pool B - Tatiana Lazareva (UKR), Ida-Theres Karlsson (SWE), Mabel Fonseca(PUR)
Pool C - Sun Dongmei (CHN), Diletta Giampiccolo (ITA), Saori Yoshida (JPN)
Pool D - Anna Gomis (FRA), Lee Na-Lae (KOR), Sofia Poumpouridou(GRE)
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63 kg (12 entries)

Pool A - Stephanie Gross (GER), Stavroula Zigouri (GRE), Sara Eriksson (SWE)
Pool B - Meng Lili (CHN), Sara McMann (USA), Viola Yanik (CAN)
Pool C - Olga Khilko (BLR), Lise Golliot-Legrand (FRA), Natalia Ivanova (TJK)
Pool D - Lyudmila Golovchenko(UKR), Kaori Icho (JPN), Alena Kartacheva (RUS)
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72 kg (12 entries)
Pool A - Marina Gastl (AUT), Gouzel Manyurova (RUS), Anita Schaetzle (GER)
Pool B -Maria Louiza Vryoni (GRE), Svetlana Sayenko (UKR), Burmaa Ochirbat (MGL)
Pool C - Wang Xu (CHN), Katarzyna Juszczak (ITA), Christine Nordhagen (CAN)
Pool D - Kyoko Hamaguchi (JPN), Toccara Montgomery (JPN), Stanka Zlateva (BUL)