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XX Commonwealth Games round-up

02/08/2014

The Commonwealth Games Wrestling Competition ended on a high on 31st July 2014, as Dave Sudron, Britain’s Olympic Level Referee was given the honour of refereeing the final match of the competion.

Great results, a great tournament for the Home Nations & British Wrestling and a great profile for the sport of Wrestling.

Having blown the whistle on the wrestlers, Dave blew time on himself and, in time-honoured tradition, took off his referee’s shoes and wristbands, laid them carefully in the centre of the mat and walked off to rapturous applause.

This event and every moment of the exciting three days of competition was watched by 80yr old Albert Aspen and his partner Edna who had the privilege of mat side seats.

Albert, won Bronze medals (62Kg Featherweight) at 3 successive Commonwealth Games (1958-1966) and his son, Brian Aspen, took Gold in the 1982 Commonwealth Games.

During the course of the three days in Glasgow the Home Nations achieved 8 medals.

Role of Honour:

England  
Silver 48kg Yana Rattigan
Bronze 55kg
74kg
97kg
125kg
Louisa Porogovska (née Salmon)
Michael Grundy
Leon Rattigan
Chinu
Scotland  
Bronze 61kg
65kg
Viorel Etko
Alex Gladkov
Wales  
Bronze 57kg Craig Pilling

 

There was star treatment after Day 1’s 4 medals with Yana, Michael, Chinu, Craig and Donna and Fiona Robertson, twins from Scotland being invited onto BBC’s “Tonight at the Games” with Claire Balding.

Medallists achieved celebrity status with Yana and Leon Rattigan being recognised as a fantastically talented medalling couple, Viorel Etko and Alex Gladkov became Scottish heroes in the newspapers as they brought back their Nation’s medal targets, and Chinu hit front-page icon status on the FILA website. (link)

Craig Pilling – 57kg Bronze

 

Many of the Technical Officials were BWA members.  Foremost was Victor Keelan, President of the Scottish Wrestling Association, who took the oath at the Games Opening Ceremony on behalf of all Technical Officials (link) and was Referee, along with Richard Phillips, both tirelessly out on the mat throughout the competition.

Timekeepers Freda Sudron and Ian Wiggett
Scoreboards Colin Gell and Tony Phillips
Athlete Control Tony Melling and Tony Morris
Competition Secretary Ellen Morris
Weigh-in and Draw Glen Elliot, Paul Kay and Tornik Hakobyan

 

And then there were the Home Nations support staff, who worked tirelessly to deliver their successful teams

England Shaun Morley
Anatolii Kharytoniuk
Trevor Hoskins
Eddy Kavanagh
Rob Hamilton
Scotland Colin McLaren
Vladimir Gladkov
Wales Alan Jones
Arash Shojeai
Northern Ireland John O’Rawe

 

And in the background, helping individuals and Nations was British Wrestling’s Administrator, Yvonne Ball who worked tirelessly to secure funding for athletes, visas and passports for athletes and staff across the Home Nations and with additional support for the England Team.  Other unseen contributors to the success of the events were the various Selection Panel and Appeal Committee members who should also be thanked.

And there were many family relationships with roles in the Games:

Athletes Husband & Wife
Brother and Sister
Twins
Yana & Leon Rattigan
Michael & Sarah Grundy
Donna and Fiona Robertson
Technical Officials
BBC Commentator
Brothers
Husband & Wife
Husband & Wife
Father and Son
Richard and Tony Phillips
Tony and Ellen Morris
Dave and Freda Sudron
Tony and John Melling

Tony and Richard Phillips

 

Yana and Leon Rattigan

 

And finally, there were the birthdays during the Friendly Games. Both George Ramm and Richard Phillips celebrated birthdays during the Games!
After the second day of competition, the Commonwealth Wrestling Association held its Congress. Josip Mrkoci (Canada) was re-elected as Chairman and John Saul (Australia) re-elected as Secretary General. Clive Walen (a past president of Canadian Wrestling) was elected as Vice Chairman.

The Welsh Wrestling Association confirmed their bid, initially made at the Delhi 2010 Congress, to hold the next (2015) Commonwealth Championships in Cardiff, Wales.
England was represented by Tony Melling (Chair of the England Committee,) Scotland by Victor Keelan (President of the Scottish Wrestling Association,) Wales by Alan Jones (Performance Manager) and Northern Ireland by John O’Rawe. Colin Nicholson (England) and Ian Wiggett (Wales) attended as observers.

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Celebrities seen supporting at the Wrestling Competiton and who gave their support for the Home Nations were Dame Kelly Holmes, Sir Steve Redgrave (a Team England Ambassador) and Howard Webb MBE, English professional football referee, last seen officiating in Rio at the FIFA World Cup. Josip Mrkoci, Chairman of the Commonwealth Wrestling Association attended all of the wrestling.

Mike Hooper, outgoing Chief Executive of the Commonwealth Games Federation also attended. “We’ve seen that it has been popular here,” said Prince Imran, a member of the IOC since 2006 and the Commonwealth Games Federation President since 2011.

 

Yana and Leon Rattigan supporters…

There was sad news too, as Allan Best died after a lifetime’s service to Wrestling (link) and Chair Cary Depel handed in his resignation after a tireless 8mths of driving to take wrestling forward across Britain (link).
And, looking forward to the future, the Wrestling Competition venue flag that was flying over the Scottish Exhibition Conference Centre (SECC,) is now on its way to Northern Ireland to take its place at the new Wrestling/Climbing/Judo Academy at St Columb’s Park, Londonderry, due to open in March 2015.


And none of this could have been achieved without the help of our sponsors, in the main the Great British public, through their taxes and participation in the National Lottery – THANK YOU!

  • British Wrestling’s Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games web page
  • Day 1 Results
  • Day 2 Results
  • Day 3 Results
  • FILA Home Page 2nd August 2014 – Chinu Feature
  • FILA Chinu news item 2nd August 2014 – “Chinu accepts cheers…”
  • Glasgow 2014 Results Schedule
  • Closing Ceremony coverage by Insidethegames.biz
  • The reasons behind Team England’s success by Insidethegames.biz
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