INTERNATIONAL ARMWRESTLING
FEDERATION
AFFILIATED WITH UNITED
STATES ARMSPORTS
Newsletter
July 2006
This year's
Unified's is expected to have close to 500 entries. Hopefully all that are
planning to attend have booked their hotel room by now. This will also be
the final leg of the triple crown, there are now just 5 pullers left with a
chance to win. They are Harold Owens, Steve Rau, Ron Klemba, Lee Culpepper
& Cobra Rhodes. The total prize money is $5,100.00. I would like to wish
Good Luck to all 5 and especially our own Ron Klemba. This is also a
qualifier for the Arnold. You can find info about the Arnold on the USA
site:
http://armwrestling.com
Hope to see a lot of old friends at this year's National.
We are
trying to organize a couple of referee clinics at some of the local IAF
events. If anyone would be interested in learning how to referee please
e-mail me and I will let you know when and where. We will also post this
info on the IAF Message Board and the Northeast Board. Hopefully we can get
enough interest in this to generate some new ref's. This idea was suggested
by our VT State Director, Karen Curavoo. Great idea Karen.
Results
Allentown Sportsfest
July 8th
2006
Allentown, PA
Woman 0-141
1st Pam Ducharme RI, Heather Pirino Pa.
Woman 141& up
1st Melinda Lauver Pa., 2nd Kristin Yasinski Pa., 3rd.
Christina Lewis.
Mens Left 0-176
1st Daryl Miller, Pa. 2nd Justin Kopa., Pa., 3rd.
Tom Morgan
Mens 177 & up
1st Dustin Morgan ,Pa. 2nd Todd Opitz, N.J. 3rd Andre Ducharme, RI.
Mens Right
0-154 1st
Alex Petsuashili , Georgia, Russia 2nd Mike Beradine Pa. 3rd George
Yasinski Pa.
Mens Rt 155-176
1st Alex Pretsuashili Georgia, Russia 2nd Bill Marini Ny. 3rd Mick
Wilhide Pa.
Mens Rt 177-198
1st Dustin Morgan Pa. 2nd Billy Lucas Pa. 3rd.
John Morgan Pa.
Mens 199-220
1st Andre Ducharme RI 2nd Tim Lewis Pa. 3rd Billy Lewis Pa
Mens 221& Up
1st Eric Opitz N.J. 2nd Todd Opitz, N.J. 3rd Ken Hampa Pa. Thank
you all for coming. There were 48 entries . IAF Sanctioned Meet
Director was Mike Ondrovic.
Lamolle County Fair
July, 2006
Men's Right
0-154:
1st: Marc Wheelock
2nd: Brad Barup
3rd: Steven Lareau
MEN'S RIGHT155-176:
1st: Greg Sharon
2nd: Brayton Gillett
3rd: Richard Gravel
MENS RIGHT
177-198:
1st: George Sheldrick
2nd: Pete Tallman
3rd: Mitch Shatney
MENS RIGHT
199-220
1st: George Sheldrick
2nd: Harry Bean
3rd: Richard Gagne
MENS RIGHT 221
+
1st: George Sheldrick
2nd: Bill Harvey
3rd: Harry Bean
WOMENS RIGHT
0- 143:
1st: Jessalyn Gillett
2nd: Sarena Moodie
3rd: Jen Devoid
WOMENS RIGHT
144 +
1st: Theresa Howard
2nd: Jessalyn Gill
3rd: Ashley Bullard
MENS LEFT 0
-154:
1st: Steve Larue
2nd: Dana Bourdeau
3rd: Rick Spaulding
MENS LEFT
155-176:
1st: Dustin Burns
2nd: Chris Gobby
3rd: Greg Sharon
MENS LEFT
177-198:
1st: Claude Brown
2nd: Jordan Benoit
3rd: Pete Tallman
MENS LEFT 199
+:
1st: Harry Bean
2nd: Brian Clark
3rd: Andy Ducharme
Upcoming Events
August
5/6. The USA Unified National Championship will be held at the Doubletree
Hotel in Denver, CO. The Open competition will be held on Saturday and the
Master's competition will be held on Sunday. This is the only qualifier for
the World Championship being held in Manchester, England later this year.
This is also the final leg of the Triple Crown and a qualifier for the
Arnold Event. All 1st
& 2nd
place will qualify for Team USA to go to England. There is expected to be
close to 500 entries this year. For more info call Bill Collins @
209-826-2873 or email @
billco1@pacbell.net
September 16. The September Slamdown will be held at the City
Sports Grill in Bristol, CT. Classes for Men's Right & Left Open, Men's
Right Novice, Men's Right Master's and Women's Right Open. Awards for 1st
to 3rd
in all classes. For more info call Chris Gangi @ 860-585-7716
September
22/24. The PAC World Championship will be held at the Mohegan Sun Casino
in Uncasville, CT. The Pro Classes will be run on Saturday and the Amateur
Classes will be run on Sunday. Over $21,000.00 in Cash for the Pro Class.
Check out the Mohegan Sun Casino at
www.mohegansun.com
For more info or to register on line:
www.proarmwrestling.com
You will save $25 if you register on line instead of waiting for the day of
the event.
October 29 to November 6. The World Championship will be held
at the Trafford Centre in Manchester, England. There could very well be
over 1,000 entries from 40 countries. The BAWF is this year's host. For
more info go to their web site:
www.armwrestling.co.uk
or e-mail Neil Pickup at
natural@armwrestling.co.uk
November 18. The Western PA Championship will be held at the
Stable Pit & Pub in Conneaut Lake, PA. Men's Right & Left Open, Men's Right
Masters, Women's Right Open and Kids classes will be offered. Weigh-ins
from 3pm to 4:30pm, contest starts at 5pm. Overall for Men's right & left
hand classes. For more info call Bob Stanger @ 724-588-2879.
For a more complete list of upcoming tournaments check out the
United States Armsports site
http://armwrestling.com
The Northeast Board:
http://northeastboard.com
There are a lot of tournaments in Canada that you can find a link to on the
IAF message board, there is a link there under upcoming tournaments:
http://iaf1.homestead.com/messageboard.html
We will be updating the Women's Ranking sometime in the middle
of August. Hopefully there will be a lot of Ladies in attendance at the
Unified Nationals to help settle some of the disputes as to who is ranked
where. The way the ranking is done is by a panel of women armwrestlers ,
they submit a list of names they believe should be listed by weight class.
Then I eliminate all double names and make up one list and send it back to
the panel so that they can cast their votes on where the women should be
ranked. They send their list back to me and I tally up the results. I then
post them on the Women's Ranking Page:
http://iaf1.homestead.com/rank.html
The same is done for the Canadian Women's Ranking. I have no say in who
gets picked for the list or what place they are listed at, I am only the
middle man. There doesn't seem to be any interest in doing the European
Women's Ranking so I may just discontinue that. All the panel except one
has resigned in Europe.
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