Wednesday November 11th 2026
The International Bill Farrell Memorial Wrestling Tournament was held at the New York Athletic Club on November 6th and the 7th at the famous New York Athletic Club in New York city. One of the premier wrestling tournaments of the season, athletes from around the world would look to compete in the hopes of gaining valuable international experience.
On Friday, November the 6th, Quebec’s lone representative on the Women’s side, Jade Dufour (Montreal Wrestling Club NTC) would be competing at the WW 50 kg. She would be accompanied by Coach Guivi Sissaouri, where her first match would against Clare Ro Booe of the United States. Jade would cruise to a comfortable victory, winning by Technical Superiority (10-0). Her next match would be against Jaclyn Bouzakis of the United States.
Jade would start off well, but would ultimately lose by pin and would now have to wrestle for the Bronze Medal. Jade would dominate her next opponent, Alexis Miller (USA) by Technical Superiority (15-5) and would move on in the competition to face Kayla Batres of Guatemala. Jade would win the match via Pin and would face Kendra Ryans (USA), with the winner going on to wrestle for the Bronze Medal.
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Jade would make one critical error and would end up losing the match via Pin. Despite the results, Jade should be congratulated for a competitive tournament.
The following day, Jason Luneau of the Montreal Wrestling Club NTC, would be competing at the FS 65 kg division. His first opponent would be against Julian Farber of the United States of America. Jason would start the match strong, but would end up losing by Technical Superiority and would go into the Consolation Rounds to try and wrestle for the Bronze Medal.
His first match in the Consolation Rounds would be Vitali Arujau (USA). Jason would end up losing that match via Technical Superiority (10-0) and be eliminated from the tournament.
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Though the results weren’t what we would have wanted, a congratulations has to go out to our athletes for competing this past weekend.