Nomad’s Notes - 11/17/16

A new weekly show for the top news in international wrestling. A busy slate of action is coming up, as the European Nations Cup, Golden Grand Prix, Freestyle Clubs Cup and non-Olympic weight world championships are all in a row!

At this time, Japan, Iran and Georgia are the only countries I have seen to finalize their rosters for the world championships in Budapest. Also finalized are the Belarusian men's freestyle rosters.

Japan
55kg: Mayu Mukaida
60kg: Yui Banno
61kg: Arimoto Shingo
70kg: Tago Nobuyoshi
71kg: Takahiro Umeno
80kg: Osaka

Georgia
61kg: Beka Lomtadze
70kg: David Tlashadze
71kg: Minda AJR Tsulukidze
80kg: Zurabi Datunashvili

Iran
61kg: Behnam Ehsanpour
70kg: Mostafa Hosseinkhani
71kg: Afshin Byabangard
80kg: Yousef Ghaderian

Belarus
61kg: Denis Maksimov
70kg: Azamat Nurikov

The Golden Grand Prix is going to be amazing as always. Currently slated to compete are Yowlys Bonne Rodriguez, Abdusalam Gadisov, Magomed Kurbanaliev, Alan Zaseev, Chiho Hamada, Geno Petriashvili, Yasmany Lugo, Andrey Yatsenko and Reineris Salas Perez. They are expecting 700 wrestlers from 50 different countries in Baku this year.

Not mentioned are all of the coaching changes. Azerbaijan changed their MFS (Zelimkhan Huseynov) and GR (Akif Aliyev) coaches, while Serafim Barzakov takes over the Bulgarian men's freestyle after coaching the women. As expected, Rasoul Khadem stepped down to allow Mohamed Talai to take over the Iranian MFS team after several successful years coaching their junior squad. Khetag Gazyumov, now Hetag Gozyumov, is the coach for North Ossetia.

Mentioned on the show:
Sunkist Kids Partners With Tar Heel WC
Three More Olympic Medals Stripped
USA Lineup for Golden Grand Prix