Wrestlers set to show their skills internationally
Wrestlers from across the country travelled to Primrose this weekend to take part in the South African Wrestling Federation’s (SAWF) African Continental Championships training camp.
The Raptors Wrestling Club in Oak Avenue Primrose once again hosted the South African Wrestling Federation’s (SAWF) African Continental Championships training camp this weekend.
The camp saw the South African national team, with wrestlers from Johannesburg, Pretoria, Roodepoort, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and even Cape Town, training together in preparation for the African Continental Championships, which will take place next week at the Alfred Diete Spiff Civic Centre in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Three teams from South Africa will be competing in the championships, namely the cadet team, the junior team and the senior team.
National team members Fernando Booysen, who has been identified by the International Federation United World Wrestling as a hopeful for the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires in August, and Matthew Bartlett, were absent from the training as they have been preparing for the championships in Germany since November last year.
They will join the team in Nigeria.
The championships comprise a total of 10 weight categories in each of the disciplines that will be wrestled. These include the men’s freestyle, men’s Greco-Roman and women’s wrestling where all participants are in the senior age group.
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The wrestling will continue for three young wrestlers, namely Fernando Booysen, Riehand Botha and Charmone Oosthuizen, who have been identified to take part in the More Than Medals training camp, which will take place after the competition.
The camp hosts all champions of all divisions and all future Olympic hopefuls.
Coach Kurt Herzog and former Commonwealth Games bronze medallist, Mpho Madi will accompany these three young team members to the camp.
At the end of the training camp, coaches announced the wrestlers who have been selected for the Commonwealth Games to be held in Australia.
They were Kleinjan Combrinck, Terry van Rensburg, Hanru Botha, Michael Gaitskill and Martin Erasmus, as well as their coach and manager, Nico Coetzee.
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