APA - Lagos (Nigeria) Five Nigerian wrestlers are to participate in the 3rd African Green Festival of Traditional Wrestling scheduled to be held in Niamey, the Nigerien capital. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Dakar (Senegal) Senegal will face Niger on Sunday in the group wrestling final of the third traditional wrestling tournament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) taking place in Dakar on Thursday. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Dakar (Senegal) The Cameroonian wrestler Annabelle Laure Ali, who is a medalist at the 2009 beach wrestling world championships which recently took place in Bulgaria, hopes that she will be among the winners at the 2012 Olympic games to be held in London. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Dakar (Senegal) Nigerian team on Sunday won the second edition of the traditional wrestling tournament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) by securing three victories against two for their Senegalese host counterpart. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Dakar (Senegal) Nigerian traditional wrestling team on Sunday won the gold medal of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) by securing three victories agaisnt two for their Senegalese host counterpart . Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA---Freetown [Sierra Leone] The Sierra Leonean national wrestling team, comprising four wrestlers and two officials, has departed Freetown Tuesday, for Senegal, to take part in the second leg of the ECOWAS wrestling competition, slated for the 7-12 of May, APA learns here. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Tahoua (Niger) Niger’s capital hosts the 7th edition of the wrestling tournament of the Economic Community of West African States from 26 to 30 March with 12 countries expected to participate. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Tahoua (Niger) The Nigerien traditional wrestling championship registered 19 out of 80 wrestlers so far undefeated, ahead of the fourth day of these competitions underway on the traditional sports arena of Tahoua (475km north-east of Niamey). Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Lome (Togo) - The third edition of the World Traditional Wrestling Festival began on Friday in the Lome locality of Kégué, and attended by Togolese Sports Minister Christopher Chao’s. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Monrovia (Liberia) Some Liberian traditional wrestlers are expected to participate in the forthcoming traditional wrestling festival dubbed "The Third World Festival of Traditional Wrestlers” in Lome, Togo on 18-23 November. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Dakar (Senegal) Senegal’s National Wrestling Management Committee (CNG) on Thursday lifted the three year-suspension it had imposed in January 2007 on the wrestler Mohamed Ndao "Tyson", Body’s Chairman, Dr Alioune Sarr, announced here. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA – Lagos (Nigeria) The Secretary of Nigeria’s Traditional Sports Federation of Nigeria (TSFN), Mr Clement Iyaluegbeghe, has announced that Nigeria will send six wrestlers to the Third World Green Festival of Traditional Wrestling to be hosted by Togo in November. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Lomé (Togo) Togo has been selected to host the second African edition of the World Belt wrestling championship and World African wrestling tournament in November, source said here. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA – Beijing (China) – None of the African Wrestlers was able to pass the preliminary tour in the Olympics, and will be remembered as one of the worst in the History of African wrestling. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA – Beijing (China) - During Tuesday’s wrestling competition at the Olympic Games held at the Chinese Agricultural University Gymnasium in Beijing, two gold medals were handed out in men’s Freestyle 55 kg and men’s freestyle 60 kg, while two other African wrestlers were knocked out of the competition. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA – Beijing (China) Athens 96 kg gold medallist Karam Gaber of Egypt went out on Thursday and failed to qualify to the quarter-finals, in the men’s Greco-Roman 96 kg, during the third day of the wrestling competition in Beijing Olympic Games held at the Chinese Agricultural University Gymnasium in Beijing. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA – Beijing (China) – Four African athletes have been defeated during the two first days of the Wrestling competition in Beijing Olympic Games that started on Tuesday at the CAU Gymnasium in Beijing. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA- Cairo (Egypt) In a country where history means a lot, most Egyptians hopes hinge on history to repeat itself and the Golden Pharaoh (national team)’s wrestler Karam Gaber to add a second gold medal in Beijing 2008 to his first one in Athens 2004. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA–Dakar (Senegal) Yakhya Diop alias Yekini on Sunday basked in the glory of his 58-second victory over Balla Beye II dubbed “The human tornado" in a fist-fight wrestling bout termed the derby of the 2008 season which ended the same day. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Niamey (Niger) The first Niger Under-17 traditional wrestling tournament kicks off Friday at the Yacouba Ango arena of Maradi (700km, east) with the participation of 80 young wrestlers between 12 and 14 years old, APA learnt from the national organising committee. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Niamey (Niger) Sixty wrestlers from 12 countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), will take part in the 6th sub regional wrestling tournament, dubbed TOLAC, which opens Friday at the traditional arena of Niamey, in the Nigerien capital, APA learned Thursday. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Tunis (Tunisia) Nineteen countries will take part in the 7-9 March men and women Wrestling African Championship of Nations at the Tunis-based El-Menzah Youth Sport city in Tunisia, the Organising Committee told APA. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Niamey (Niger) The Nigerien sports minister, Abdouramane Seydou, will head Wednesday to Zinder (900 km, east of Niamey) to lay the foundation stone of the national traditional wrestling training centre, APA learnt Monday from official source. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Niamey (Niger) Niger’s first technical centre train traditional wrestlers will be commissioned in November in Zinder, 900 km away from Niamey the capital, the country’s sport ministry officials said on Tuesday. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Port Louis (Mauritius) Women wrestlers from Mauritius yesterday won three gold medals out of seven in the individual wrestling competition at the Ankatso Gymnasium in Antananarivo at the Indian Ocean Islands Games (IOIG) which is currently taking place in Madagascar. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

Senegal is wrapped in a sport fever hours ahead of an highly advertised fist-fight wrestling on Sunday evening in Dakar, between Serigne Dia alias "Bombardier" and Ibrahima Ndione nicknamed «Bordeaux Grey"; two mastodons weighing a total of 250 kilograms. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Dakar (Senegal) Senegal, four times champion, and Niger, three times, are the only countries to have won the African traditional wrestling championship, including the eight edition to be disputed by nine countries in Dakar next Saturday and Sunday. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Dakar (Senegal) Senegal wants to preserve its continental supremacy in traditional wrestling during the African championships slated in Dakar on 29-30 June, the national technical director, Abdou Badji, told APA here Thursday. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Dakar (Senegal) The wrestling with punches which pitted Yakhya Diop alias Yekini against Balla Beye II, in Dakar on Sunday has beaten all the records of wrestlers’ fees. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Dakar (Senegal) The "King of the arenas" (wrestling champion), Yakhya Diop alias "Yekini" (130 kg) beat on Sunday in Dakar, his opponent Balla Beye II (90 kg) dubbed "The human tornado" of the group "Hal Pulaar", APA noted here. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion