Results from Sassari City

The past weekend saw two international tournaments take place in Sassari City in Sardinia Italy, the Sassari Grand Prix for Juniors on Friday the 26th and the Matteo Pellicone Memorial for Seniors the day after. The tournament features athletes from Austria, Italy, Russia, Germany, Kazakhstan, Switzerland, South Korea, Romania, Georgia, The United States of America, Great Britain and of course Canada. Various clubs from Quebec ranging from Concordia University, Montreal YMHA, les Patriotes de St-Cesaire and Vanier College sent wrestlers to both tournaments and the results were quite good.

At the Sassari Grand Prix in the Junior Girls division, Kaya Dube-Snow took Bronze in the 51 kgs while Laurence Beauregard (55 kgs) would beat Romania en-route to winning a Bronze at 60 kgs. Rounding out the results for the Junior Girls, Amanda Savard beat her opponent from Italy (6-4) but lost a close contest to Romania by a score of 3-2 to claim a Silver Medal at 67 kgs while Jade Dufour won her division by beating her opponents from Canada and Italy to win Gold at 51 kgs. For the Junior Boys, Alex Moore beat his opponent from Italy but lost to a Swiss opponent to capture Silver at 84 kgs while Aly Barghout captured Gold at 120 kgs.

In the Senior division at the Matteo Pellicone Memorial, Vincent De Marinnis wrestling at 65 kgs won Gold while Jordan Steen wrestling at 86 kgs would also capture Gold. Rounding out the results for the Mens division, Frederique Choquette would go on to beat his opponent from Israel to win Silver in the 125 kgs division. Finally in 60 kgs Womens division, LInda Morais would also win a Gold medal in a dominating fashion by beating her opponent from Kazakhstan.

Vincent De Marinnis (Photo credit Wrestling Canada Lutte)

Jordan Steen (Photo credit Wrestling Canada Lutte)

Linda Morais (Photo credit Wrestling Canada Lutte)

In addition to this, the tournament featured an international training camp with athletes and coaches from the tournament training and exchanging techniques. The training camp was open to all athletes who particpated in the camp as well as members from their clubs. Once again, Quebec clubs featured prominently. The training camp was a great experience for all and a good way to create memories for everyone involved.