By Halil Ibrahim Avsar
ANKARA (AA) - The 2020 Individual World Cup in wrestling will start on Saturday, Dec. 12 in Serbia.
This year's World Championships in Serbia were replaced by the Individual World Cup as several top nations would not participate in the championships due to pandemic.
Turkish Wrestling Federation said that the national athletes are ready for the World Cup and will go to Serbia on Thursday evening.
The contest will be held on Dec. 12-18 in Belgrade.
The winners will bag 4,000 Swiss francs ($4,500). The runners-up will get 3,000 Swiss francs (approximately $3,400) and those, who will come third, will win 1,500 Swiss francs ($1,700).
- Turkish athletes to compete in World Cup
- Greco-Roman:
55 kg: Serif Kilic
60 kg: Ahmet Uyar
63 kg: Abdurrahman Altan
67 kg: Atakan Yuksel
72 kg: Cengiz Arslan
77 kg: Furkan Bayrak
82 kg: Salih Aydin
87 kg: Dogan Goktas
97 kg: Suleyman Demirci
130 kg: Osman Yildirim
- Women's category:
50 kg: Evin Demirhan
53 kg: Zeynep Yetgil
55 kg: Bediha Gun
57 kg: Mehlika Ozturk
59 kg: Elif Yanik
62 kg: Cansu Aksoy
65 kg: Asli Demir
68 kg: Nesrin Bas
72 kg: Buse Tosun
76 kg: Yasemin Adar
- Men's freestyle:
57 kg: Saban Kiziltas
61 kg: Recep Topal
65 kg: Ahmet Duman
70 kg: Haydar Yavuz
74 kg: Fazli Eryilmaz
79 kg: Muhammet Nuri Kotanoglu
86 kg: Osman Gocen
92 kg: Erhan Yaylaci
97 kg: Suleyman Karadeniz
125 kg: Oktay Gungor