On December 22, leading Russian athletes in four different martial arts – freestyle wrestling, Greco-Roman wrestling, Judo and Sambo – will gather in the new Moskovsky Health and Fitness Centre to look back at their performance in 2010 and hold a group training session.
Reviewing the results of the year is the established practice of the national wrestling federations and the Russian Ministry of Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy, and will be done in the run-up to the Olympic trials in 2011.
The Russian Wrestling Federation along with the Russian Judo Federation and the National Sambo Federation, with the support of the Russian Ministry of Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy, have been mapping out new approaches to best addressing the objectives set forth in the Strategy for Developing Physical Culture and Sport until 2020. One innovative approach is set down in the Fight and Win Programme to develop wrestling through 2020. The programme provides for the creation of a bottom-up wrestling development system – from the grassroots level of the sport to the World Wrestling Academy. Special significance in the programme is attached to mass participation in sporting events and the physical training of the youth. For this purpose, there is a plan to establish a network of Olympus youth sports and recreation centres. These centres will make the sport more affordable and accessible to young people, including through master classes given by Olympic champions at their schools. Another objective of the creation of the centres is to stimulate the development of small businesses. Such a system will encourage a greater number of teenagers to take up sports; facilitate the social and economic adaptation of youths; and help sports facilities achieve economic independence.
The group training session will be attended by two Olympic champions in Greco-Roman wrestling – Aleksei Mishin (Athens, 2004) and Aslanbek Khushtov (Beijing, 2008), the 2010 world champion Ambako Vachadze, and four 2010 world champions in freestyle wrestling – Bilyal Makhov, Denis Tsargush, Besik Kudukhov and Viktor Lebedev.
Seven-time world champion Rais Rakhmatullin and three-time world champion Vitaly Minakov will wrestle in Sambo matches.
Judo will be represented by 2010 world championships medal-winners Arsen Galstyan, Kirill Denisov, Natalya Kuzyutina and Tea Donguzashvili.
Wrestlers from 22 regions of Russia will be taking part in the group training session, which will be conducted by world renowned coaches Jambulat Tedeyev (freestyle), Georgy Koguashvili (Greco-Roman), Enzio Gamba and Anatoly Rakhlin (judo) under the guidance of Olympic champion Mikhail Mamiashvili, president of the Russian Wrestling Federation.