Williams, Cormier win gold, as U.S. men capture five medals at Ivan Yarygin International in Russia
Gary Abbott\/USA Wrestling<\/p>\n
Joe Williams (Ames, Iowa\/Sunkist Kids) and Daniel Cormier (Stillwater, Okla.\/Gator WC) won gold medals in men’s freestyle at the Ivan Yarygin Memorial Tournament in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.<\/p>\n
Williams captured the 74 kg\/163 lbs. weight class, and Cormier won at 96 kg\/211.5 pounds. Both were members of the 2004 U.S. Olympic Team.<\/p>\n
The United States won five medals overall in the men’s freestyle division. Capturing a silver medal was Tommy Rowlands (Columbus, Ohio\/Dave Schultz WC) at 96 kg\/211.5 lbs. Capturing bronze medals were Sammie Henson (St. Louis, Mo.\/Sunkist Kids) at 55 kg\/121 lbs. and Lee Fullhart (Blacksburg, Va.\/Gator WC) at 84 kg\/185 lbs.<\/p>\n
Williams won five matches on the way to the title. He defeated Sergei Vitkovsky of Russia in the championship match.<\/p>\n
Williams opened with a victory over Dimitry Kirilov of Russia, then stopped Ruslan Kokaev of Russia. In the quarterfinals, Williams stopped Magomed Isagadjiev of Russia. His semifinal win was over Ivan Fundora of Cuba.<\/p>\n
Cormier won four matches to claim his victory, defeating American teammate Rowlands in the gold-medal match.<\/p>\n
He opening with a win over Nurjane Cateav of Kazakhstan. His quarterfinals victory came over Oleg Kallagov of Russia. In the semifinals, Cormier defeated Muhammad Hadi Purslgian of Iran.<\/p>\n
Rowlands won his first three matches before losing to Cormier in the finals. He opened with a victory over Aleksey Mastepanov of Belarus. In the quarterfinals, he stopped Kazvbek Kudzaev of Russia. His semifinal victory was over Roman Kudryevtsev of Russia.<\/p>\n
Henson, a 1998 World Champion, won his first three matches, then was defeated by Alexander Kontoev of Russia in the semifinals. Kontoeve went on to win the gold medal.<\/p>\n
In the repechage round, Henson defeated Asey Serikhaev of Kazakhstan to win one of the two bronze medals.<\/p>\n
Fullhart won his first two matches, then was stopped in the semifinals by Vadim Laliev of Russia. Laliev went on to capture the silver medal.<\/p>\n
In the repechage round, Fullhart defeated Soslan Gatciev of Belarus to capture one of the two bronze medals.<\/p>\n
More results will be posted when available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Williams, Cormier win gold, as U.S. men capture five medals at Ivan Yarygin International in RussiaGary Abbott\/USA Wrestling Joe Williams (Ames, Iowa\/Sunkist Kids) and Daniel Cormier (Stillwater, Okla.\/Gator WC) won gold medals in men’s freestyle at the Ivan Yarygin Memorial Tournament in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Williams captured the 74 kg\/163 lbs. weight class, and Cormier won […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrestling"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B7Di-cE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}