AL-MARAFI WINS GOLD, ABU TABEEKH TAKES BRONZE AT VETERANS WRESTLING WORLDS

Ramzi Al-Marafi has won gold and Yahya Abu Tabeekh has secured a bronze at the Veterans Wrestling World Championships, hosted by the capital Amman at Princess Sumaya Hall in Al-Hussein Youth City.
Al-Marafi won gold in the Greco-Roman 78kg weight category, opening his campaign with a 9-0 victory over Kazakhstan’s Otemis, before defeating another Kazakh wrestler, Eduard Durmanov, in the semi-final.
In the gold medal match he beat the USA’s Andrei Stashonak, 7-0, to be crowned with the gold medal.
Abu Tabeekh secured the bronze medal in the Greco-Roman 100kg weight after achieving victory in two bouts against Russia’s Berishev and Croatia’s Kaditshka.