Nenad Lalovic led the fight to keep wrestling in the Olympic Games.
Lalovic elected President of United World Wrestling
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan – Nenad Lalovic, who led last year’s Save Olympic Wrestling movement, was elected presi- dent of United World Wrestling by accla- mation on Sept. 7 in Tashkent. Lalovic marked his election, and by coincidence the eve of the one-year anniversary of wrestling’s re-admission to the Olympic Programme, by presenting member countries at the FILA Congress a comprehensive brand overhaul taking the international federation from “FILA” to “United World Wrestling.” Lalovic, who was first elected president
last year, immediately launched his vision for the organization and its efforts for closer integration into the Olympic Movement. "The Olympic world is changing,” said Lalovic. “Under (IOC President) Thomas Bach and his vision of Agenda 2020 the Olympic Movement could undergo more revisions, more changes," he explained. "We need to part of that change ... We are not guaranteed anything." The newly minted United World Wrestling also elected new members to the organi- zation's executive committee. Three incumbent members of the
World Wrestling Bureau Mikhail Mamiashvili (87 votes), Akhroldjan Ruziev (86) and Tesno Tsenov (71) were re- elected in the first-round of voting, secur-
ing more than 50-percent of the congres- sional vote (63 votes). Each will serve a six-year term. The next round of voting welcomed
four new full-time members, who only needed a relative majority to be appoint- ed: Pedro Gama Filho (BRA), Fouad Meskout (MAR), Hideaki Tomiyama (JPN) and Karl-Martin Dittman (GER). Tomiyama will serve out the remainder
of Lalovic's four-year term and Dittman the final two years of the late Matteo Pellicone. Both Gama Filho and Meskout have six-year terms. Pellicone's widow, Marina, was also
elected to a six-year term. Her position was added to help wrestling meet its mandate for having three female mem- bers for the World Wrestling Bureau. With a new brand in place, his presi-
dency secured for six years and on the eve of The World Championship, Lalovic continues to look forward. "I promise you that the steps all of us
are taking now will be huge. They will propel us into a new age in our sport,” remarked Lalovic. "We will look different on the mats, in our competitive dress and in our brand. We will take our message to sponsors and media that wrestling is worth investing in.” “We will become good partners in telling the story of wrestling."
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