Ottawa, ON – With close to 100 countries participating at the 2015 Wrestling World Championships, the Canadian Team is ready to meet the world and compete at the first qualifying event for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

“Coming off a strong 2015 Pan Am Games showing with 14 of the 18 World Championship team entries having competed in Toronto, Team Canada is ready to perform in Vegas,” says Tamara Medwidsky, Executive Director, Wrestling Canada Lutte. With the 2015 Worlds being the last World Championships prior to the 2016 Olympics, it provides the best opportunity to gauge the best in the world.”

On the road to Rio, at the recent Pan Am Games and heading into these World Championships, Canadian wrestlers achieved success with three gold medals, three silver medals and two bronze medals.

The 2015 World Championships team is led by 2015 Pan Am Games Champion, 2014 Commonwealth Games Champion, 2010 Youth Olympic Games Champion, 2014 World University Games World Champion, 2012 Senior World Championship silver medalist and two-time World Junior Champion, Dorothy Yeats in the 69kg division. Highlighting the men’s team is two-time Olympian Haislan Garcia. Garcia competed in his second consecutive Olympic Games at London 2012, finished seventh in the men’s freestyle 66 kg division and was a recent bronze medalist at TO2015.

Additional team members include 2015 Pan Am Games Champions Genevieve Morrison (48 KG) and Braxton Stone-Papadopoulos (63 KG), just coming off a 2015 Junior World bronze medal performance a few weeks ago, 2015 Pan Am Games silver medalist Korey Jarvis (125 KG) and Justina Di Stasio (75 KG) and 2015 Pan Am Games bronze medalist Tamerlan Tagziev (86 KG).

The World Wrestling Championships for 2015 are organized by United World Wrestling (formally the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles – FILA) and hosted by USA Wrestling, United States Olympic Committee and Las Vegas Events. The Championships will feature three wrestling disciplines: Men’s Greco-Roman, Women’s Freestyle and Men’s Freestyle.

Be sure to follow @WrestlingCanada for photos and live updates on twitter and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WrestlingCanada using the hashtag #VegasWorlds. Also, for livestream and videos visit https://unitedworldwrestling.org/event/world-championship-senior-1. Additionals details can be found at the event website http://www.vegasworlds2015.com/ as well as a USA Wrestling Special Section http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Features/2015/August/26/2015-World-Championships-Special-Section

Please find following the event schedule and complete entries:

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
Men’s Greco-Roman 66KG, 75KG, 98KG

• 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM – Preliminaries, 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 Finals and Repechage
• 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM – Bronze and Gold Medal Matches

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8
Men’s Greco-Roman 59KG, 71KG, 80KG, 130KG

• 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM – Preliminaries, 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 Finals and Repechage
• 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM – Bronze and Gold Medal Matches

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
Men’s Greco-Roman 85KG and Women’s Freestyle | 48KG, 53KG, 69KG

• 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM – Preliminaries, 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 Finals and Repechage
• 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM – Bronze and Gold Medal Matches

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
Women’s Freestyle 55KG, 58KG, 63KG and 75KG  Men’s Freestyle 65KG

• 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM – Preliminaries, 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 Finals and Repechage
• 6:30 PM – 10:00 PM – Bronze and Gold Medal Matches

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
Women’s Freestyle 60KG and Men’s Freestyle 61KG, 86KG, 97KG

• 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM – Preliminaries, 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 Finals and Repechage
• 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM – Bronze and Gold Medal Matches

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
Men’s Freestyle 57KG, 70KG, 74KG, 125KG

• 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM – Preliminaries, 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 Finals and Repechage
• 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM – Bronze and Gold Medal Matches

All times – Pacific Time (PT)

COMPLETE ENTRIES

Greco-Roman

59 kg – Dylan Williams (Bears WC)
98 kg – Jeremy Latour (Guelph WC)

Women

48 kg – Genevieve Morrison (Dinos WC)
53 kg – Brianne Barry (Team Impact WC)
55 kg – Jasmine Mian (Dinos WC)
58 kg – Michelle Fazzari (Brock WC)
60 kg – Breanne Graham (Dinos WC)
63 kg – Braxton Stone-Papadopoulos (Team Impact WC)
69 kg – Dorothy Yeats (Tristar Wrestling Academy)
75 kg – Justina Di Stasio (Burnaby Mountain WC)

Men’s Freestyle

57 kg – John Pineda (Burnaby Mountain WC)
61 kg – Michael Asselstine (Bears WC)
65 kg – Haislan Garcia (Burnaby Mountain WC)
70 kg – Cruiz Manning (Team Impact WC)
74 kg – Jevon Balfour (Brock WC)
86 kg – Tamerlan Tagziev (Team Impact WC)
97 kg – Arjun Gill (Burnaby Mountain WC)
125 kg – Korey Jarvis (Guelph WC)

Support Staff:

Team Leader – Alex Davidson
Coaches – Leigh Vierling, Gia Sissaouri, Paul Ragusa, Marty Calder, Dave McKay, Saeed Azarbayjani, Doug Yeats, Doug Cox, Lhamsuren Naidan, Kimin Kim, Owen Dawkins
Medical / IST – Dr. Jason Crookham, Surinder Budwal, Rick Tkach, Todd Bennett, Kelly Drager, Mac Read
Media Relations – Patrick Kenny
Canadian Referees – Lee MacKay (Instructor), Gary Bird