Fri. Oct 11th, 2024

Lori Victoria Braun
Live from Madison Square Garden
Coverage of World Championships of Freestyle Wrestling 2003
New York, New York
September 12-14, 2003

Over 180,000 fans packed Madison Square Garden in New York for the World Championships of Freestyle Wrestling. The September 2003 world championships drew 500 world class female and male athletes from over 70 countries who are also dreaming of Olympic Gold in the near future.

In the Women’s competitions, the Japanese women stormed through the finals and won 5 of the 7 titles. Our complete photographic coverage of these matches is here. Kristie Marano of the United States and Irlini Merleni of Ukraine won the remaining two titles.

Writing about the United States team for TheMat.com, Gary Abbott wrote:

“The performance of the U.S. women’s team was one of the best I have ever seen, even though the squad was ultimately tied by the Japanese team and placed second. The women wrestled with a dominance and purpose that was captivating…… It is my hope that never again will leaders within wrestling dismiss women’s wrestling, or take a “wait-and-see? attitude about its place within the sport.”

I am thrilled to introduce world championship women’s freestyle wrestling to the femalemuscle.com community. I want to thank Gary Abbott and the entire staff of the World Championships for welcoming femalemuscle.com to this event and giving us this extraordinary opportunity to promote these strong, talented, and gifted world class female atheletes.

The World Championships were a first class event, start to finish, in every area. I look forward to bringing more coverage of this exciting and growing sport.

Lori Victoria Braun _

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