2015 Australian Sambo Nationals

Australian National Championships was staged in Sydney on December 2-3, 2015.

The champions are:

Sport Sambo

62  Kyle Montgomery – Southern Sambo
68. Thomas Grover – Southern Sambo
74 Bailey Mathieson – Southern Sambo
82 Andrew Roberts – Sydney University
90 Jeremiah Letele  – Cabramatta Pcyc
100 Greg Walsh – Sydney University

Masters
68 Terry Devlin – Mt Druitt Pcyc
74 Kon Papaioannou – The Fight Lab
82 Terry Williams – Southern Sambo
90 Tom Christopoulos – The Fight Lab
100 Peter Zakis – The Fight Lab

Michael Wynne Parker steps in as The Commonwealth Sambo President

The Vice-President, Michael Wynne Parker, takes over the Association as its new President to secede Lord Reading due to his retirement, after four years of its most successful development .

Established in 2012, the organization is going from strength to strength in promotion of Sambo in countries of Commonwealth, and is instrumental to the International Sambo Federation (FIAS) in the pursuit of its Olympic recognition.

Michael Wynne Parker is a consultant to private and public companies, charities and governments.

See more on www.wynne-parker.co.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Presidents Cup, Land Rover run, Flight and Elbrus climbing

The last week saw several events all in the name of the 2nd Presidents Cup to be staged in Manchester on September 27th.

Elbrus climbing was performed by a team which included Leo Malim (Presidents Cup Organizing committee) and Alexander Kuznetsov (FIAS President Adviser). The flags of European Sambo Federation and M1 Global were erected at the top of the highest peak in Europe.

The flight on the aircraft over the city was performed by Presidents Cup Official partner – travel agency GTO from St. Petersburg

Land Rover owners club run has started on September 22, 2015 06:00am from St. Petersburg. The vehicles will drive through Finland, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Holland, will cross the Straight Channel and are expected to arrive in Manchester on September 24th. The vehicles will deliver the prestige trophy which will find its new owner, though only for one year till the next year challenge. The possible owners could be – Germany, France, Russia, Spain, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago.

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1st British Combat Sambo Grand Slam fighters announced

1st British Combat Sambo Grand Slam fighters announced today.

The 1^st British Combat Sambo Grand Slam (pinnacle part of the 2nd Presidents Cup) promises to become the most interesting and exhilarating tournament, where the strongest heavyweight fighters will go up against each other in combat sambo.

The organizers of this event have planned Manchester to be the playground of 8 strongest fighters in the world; they will be competing not only for the prestigious trophy, but for the champion’s belt and a money prize (the amount of the prize money to be given will be announced at the preceding press-conference).

The group of 8 fighters consists of athletes under 100kg, as well as the over 100kg weight category. Although, weight has never been a decisive factor for whether the fighter will win or lose, therefore the open weight category will undoubtedly cause intrigue amongst the crowd. Combat sambo – is a very unique type of mixed martial arts. There are certain fighters who possess an exceptional striking/boxing technique, relying on a knockout win, but there are also fighters who go for a more traditional grappling approach, such as arm-leg locks and throws.

The lighter athletes will be relying on their speed and agility advantage. Heavier athletes will be relying more on their strength and closing distances between themselves and go into a clinch, and in order to achieve this to perform a series of hard hits to set up for a good grip, go into the close quarter and utilize on their advantage in weight.

The glorious 8 fighters include: Genko Ivanov (BULGARIA), Denis Mohnatkin (RUSSIA), Bjorn Bachmann (GERMANY), Sidi Bouarfa (FRANCE), Constantine Soldatov (KAZAKHSTAN), Matthew Clempner (GREAT BRITAIN) – well known athletes in the European sambo world for their fighting in Combat Sambo and mixed martial arts championships.

There will also be some new fighters coming from across the Atlantic Ocean: Diego Vazquez Montes (MEXICO)– a Mixed Martial Art fighter, and Moises Aaron Fernandez (NICARAGUA) – winner of the recent Combat Sambo Pan-American Championship and accomplished judoka.

The intrigue is guaranteed!

Don’t miss this spectacular event!

Samoa makes sporting history as the first day of Commonwealth Youth Games competition begins

With the first day of competition about to start, Samoa’s capital is ready for an impactful festival of Commonwealth sporting action at the Vth Commonwealth Youth Games. Following the immersive and impressive Opening Ceremony – the largest-ever cultural performance the Pacific island nation had ever presented featuring 1% of the island’s population as volunteer cast – seven of the nine sports kick off today, Monday 7 September, across two sporting complexes.

The Athletics and Tennis action starts at Apia Park Complex, with Aquatics, Boxing, Lawn Bowls, Squash and Weightlifting all commencing at Tuana’imato Sports Facility. Events include the 100m and 1500m finals of Athletics and 200m Freestyle, 200m Butterfly and 100m Backstroke Swimming finals.

Commonwealth Games Federation Chief Executive David Grevemberg, said: “After a genuinely inspiring opening event, our attention now turns to the field of play and the sporting competition about to take place between our young Commonwealth athletes, many experiencing a multi-sport environment for the very first time. Samoa and its people should be rightly proud of all the work they have done to stage this significant event – and the athletes are ready to deliver clean and impactful sporting performances that engage and inspire Samoa’s crowds and communities”.

The first event will be Lawn Bowls, as the sun rises over three greens at 07.45am, when Northern Ireland play Cook Islands, India play Scotland and Australia take on Malaysia in the Women’s Singles. The first Gold medal is likely to be awarded in Weightlifting in the Women’s 48kg category, with 15-year old Saofaialo Jim from host nation Samoa facing contenders from Australia, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka and Wales.

15 year old Swimmer Sitivi Sooaemalelagi, from Samoa, competing today in 50m Men’s Butterfly and 200m Men’s Butterfly and 200m Men’s Freestyle said: “I can’t wait to start so I can show Samoa how hard we’ve been training. Its very nice to have all the different personalities from all the Commonwealth countries in Samoa. I want the other athletes to see how happy Samoan people are, all the athletes are very welcome here. I hope to make a PB in our pool, I want to make my family and my country proud – I get my strength from God.”

13 year old Ricci Pheaulika Daniel, a Weightlifter from Nauru in the Women’s 53kg category said: “I am feeling good, I’ve been training since I was 9, I enjoy the travel. My biggest motivator is to make my mum and dad proud. I also like the time off school. I like being here in Samoa, I like being in the Commonwealth Youth Games, I get to meet lots of other nations and similar people from the islands like me. I am hoping to win something… something gold.”

There are 16 sessions on the first day of competition across the nine sports presented, with 22 Gold Medals contested in Swimming, Athletics and Weightlifting. The remaining two sports, Archery and Rugby Sevens, start on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively.

The source: www.thecgf.com

Few facts on the Games:

1. Sports at The Commonwealth Youth Games: Aquatics (Swimming), Archery, Athletics, Boxing, Lawn Bowls, Rugby Sevens, Squash, Tennis and Weightlifting. Each nation and territory is guaranteed a minimum of four athletes (two male/two female).
2. Previous Games: England topped the medal table at the last Youth Games on the Isle of Man in 2011. Previous hosts are Pune, India (2008), Bendigo, Australia (2004) and Edinburgh, Scotland (2000).
3. The Venues: Tuana’imato Sports Facility – Aquatics (Swimming), Archery, Boxing, Lawn Bowls, Squash, Weightlifting. Apia Park Sports Complex – Athletics, Rugby Sevens, Tennis.
4. Tickets: Available from Eveni Sport, SSAB and BlueSky outlets in Apia
5. Results: To get the latest results visit www.samoacyg2015.ws
6. Social: www.facebook.com/samoa2015cyg / www.twitter.com/2015CYGSamoa / #SamoaCYG2015

INSIDETHEGAMES, the largest sports website, becomes a media partner for the II President’s Cup in Manchester

INSIDETHEGAMES, the largest sports website, becomes a media partner for the II President’s Cup in Manchester.

 

Today INSIDETHEGAMES, the largest sports website on the internet specializing in delivering important information from the world of sport, has announced the partnership with the II President’s Cup in Manchester. The internet resource has over 15’000 followers across the whole world, most of which are leaders and managers of the world’s largest sports organizations and federations.

The II President’s Cup, organized by the Commonwealth Sambo Association and the British Sambo Federation under the auspices of FIAS, will be held in Manchester on the 27^th of September 2015. Teams of Russia, Great Britain, France, Spain, Germany and three of the British Commonwealth teams will be competing against each other for the prestigious trophy; the mixed team competition will be organized in the following weight categories: 62kg, 68kg, 74kg, 82kg, 90kg for the men, and 60kg, 68kg for the women. Furthermore during the II President’s Cup, the “British Combat Sambo Grand Slam” will take place, as a promotional event in an open weight category.

All news about the tournament can now be found on both the President’s Cup website www.presidentscup.co.uk, and also on the INSIDETHEGAMES website www.insidethegames.biz.

Some of the early media sponsors for the II President’s Cup include the International Sports Press Association (AIPS), “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” published by the government of the Russian Federation, and Bauer Radio, the largest media group in Manchester.

France will challenge the Team Russia for the 2nd President’s Cup

France will be bringing a strong team of 7,  to challenge Team Russia in the 2nd President’s Cup in Manchester on the 27th of September. The National Technical Committee selected the following athletes for the mission:

CERUTTI Jean-Claude will lead the team and ALBERTI Guillaume will be the team coach.

62 kg – ZRAN Sami

68 kg – CERUTTI Cedric

74 kg – BOUCHE Maxine

82 kg – MARQUEZ Hugo

90 kg – SEGARD Anthony

60 kg – FOURNIER Laure

68 kg – CONDE Celine

BOUARFA Sidi will represent France in the open weight Combat Sambo Grand Slam

With a number of exceptionally strong athletes on the list, including Celine CONDE and Laure FOURNIER, Team France will undoubtedly be one of the strongest in the event, and will definitely put out, displaying a spectacular performance.

 

British Sambists are the winners of the London Sabantui

University of Central London saw “Sabantui”, the annual national style celebration event on June, 27, 2015, which was organized by the UK Tatar Association. HE Alexander Yakovenko, Ambassador of Russian Federation in UK, Republic of Tatarstan Vice-Prime Minister Mr. Ravil Akhmetshin, HE Ambassador of Uzbekistan to UK Mr. Otabek Akbarov, HE Ambassador of Tajikistan to UK Mr. Erkin Kasimov opened the  event and the welcome message from the President of Republic of Tatartstan Rustam Minnikhanov was announced.

Part of the celebration was: art exhibition “Friendship between peoples – Cultural dialogue”, live concert of the renown singer from Kazan Rustan Asaev, Ildar Kiyamov and Tatar national dance show by Regina Saidasheva, Lia Chanisheva and Aybulat Yanturin.

The creme de la creme of the celebration was the belt wrestling tournament Kuresh. British National sambo team members came through as Champions in the tough competition with other wrestlers representing Bashkotarstan, Tatarstan and Russia. Tom Richardson became the Sabantui ultimate winner and his father Darren Richardson (who is the UK Head Coach in Combat Sambo)  followed with the gold medal in the Masters division.

 

 

http://tatar.org.uk/в-лондоне-был-проведен-4-ый-сабантуй-2015/

Manchester opens two news SAMBO clubs in the lead up to Presidents Cup

Manchester opens new SAMBO clubs in the lead up to Presidents Cup

The 2nd Presidents Sambo Cup is coming to Manchester on the September 27th and will be staged in the iconic venue in Old Trafford – EventCity. As anticipation grows, two more SAMBO clubs has been opened in the city, which are offering SAMBO introduction classes and regular trainings.

Greater Manchester area of Stockport offers regular SAMBO classes run by multiple British Sambo and Combat Sambo Champion Mahender Patel, who has been selected to represent Great Britain in the 2015 World Championships in Marocco later this year.
Sambo classes are offered in the venue of the Spider Web Martial Arts club, in the Offerton Community Center, Mallowdale Road, Stockport

Manchester Metropolitan area of Tyldesley is privileged to have an opportunity of Sambo coaching by two high level combat athletes – Chris Hoban, who is 2015 British Champion and Matthew Clempner, 2012 World Bronze medallist. Both athletes will represent Great Britain in the Sambo World Championships in Maroc. Trainings take place in the club known as “Unit 7 Gym” at Poplar Close, Tyldesley, Manchester.

 

Matthew Clempner – Sambo World Bronze Medallist 2012, 100 kg

FBI AND SWAT TEAMS ARE TRAINED BY THE SAMBO WORLD CHAMPION

USA FBI AND SWAT TEAMS ARE TRAINED BY THE SAMBO WORLD CHAMPION

Without any doubt, Maurice Allan remains the most decorated Scottish wrestler of all times, being the only one athlete in the British history to become World champion in all three styles of wrestling: greco-roman, free style and sambo. He lives in Virginia, USA where he works in the Criminal Justice Academy and trains SWAT teams, drug enforcement “snach squads” and FBI.

Started wrestling in late 1960s Maurice was always looking for new challenges and after winning national titles in Greco-roman, free-style and Scottish backhold (national type of wrestling) he turned his eyes to judo. He won Scottish Judo National title 10 times and also became the four-times British Judo Champion representing Edinburgh Judo club and being coached by George Kerr (one of the four IJF 10^TH Dan at present).

The next challenge was sambo, a relatively unknown combat sport with a lot of similarities to free-style wrestling and judo. So Maurice decided to go for it, worked out his new repertoire and picked up the Bronze in the 1974 European Sambo Championships in Madrid in the weight category 90 kg.

The following year, 1975 Maurice won World Sambo Championsip in Minsk beating in the final strong Soviet athlete – Nikolay Kardopolov by points and became the first non-Russian to win the World Championships.

In recognition of his unique feat he was awarded in 1975 an M.B.E. by the Queen Elizabeth II and remains the recognized « Scottish wrestler of the century»

We interviewed Maurice over the phone in his home in Virginia, USA , asked him few questions and before the bill went over the roof we got to know

That…..

Wrestling was always his hobby (!). That sounds very modest, however it is true that in those days many exceptional athletes were real amateurs, they did not receive any government funding or support, and had to work for living genuinely. They worked days and trained nights, and took the lieu days to go for competitions.

That…

they could not afford to train long hours and did a lot of rigorous circuit trainings, very often up to three-four sessions per week, and that was the great way of physical conditioning and building up strong stamina and endurance.

That….

it was probably easier to train in several sports and go various clubs those days, as nowadays many clubs are over-protective and coaches are too possessive about their students.

That ….

his daughter is an Olympian and represented USA at the 2008 Beijin Games in judo.

That…

Maurice is deeply involved in the organization of bi-annual World Police and Firemen Games and will run the Judo event part of these Games in the city of Fairfax (USA) this year in the late June

That…

Maurice Allan, Judo 7^th Dan (IJF) and World Sambo Champion sees the great opportunities for Sambo promotion in USA and would love to be involved

And finally that….

Maurice Allan, MBE will be coming as the guest of honor for 2^nd Presidents Cup in Manchester September 26, 2015.