About a 1000 fighters from 42 countries will take part in the XXXVI World Armwrestling Championships. Representatives from Italy, Romania, Pakistan, Russia, Poland, Spain, Turkey and other countries will come to Vilnius. The rivalry will be clean, guaranteed by drug tests.

The fighters will compete at eight tables – says Marcin Mielniczuk, technical director at WAF. – The tournament will be similar to the European Championships, that took place a year ago in Druskienniki. We can expect the same solutions, the same scenography, constructions, etc. Tried and tested Lithuanian companies are helping us along with the event.

As usual, a special organizational program will be utilized, created by Marcin Mielniczuk. The whole process will be supervised by Mazurenko Armwrestling Promotion.

Like last year with the Europeans, this year the Lithuanian Armwrestling Federation has also asked us to help with organizing the competition – says Paweł Podlewski, financial director at Mazurenko Armwrestling Promotion. – Our experience with events organization will surely solve any potential problems that may surface.

We are also in constant contact with Litexpo, the company responsible for technical matters, lights, the podium, etc.

The WAF records show that this year the largest number of contestants will come from Ukraine, Russia and Turkey. The official tournament hotels are fully booked at this moment.

Monday the 15^th of September will see the registration and referee seminars. The next day the first bouts will commence, juniors 18 yrs old, 21 yrs old and masters. The grand opening and left-arm bouts of masters, grand masters, senior grand masters, juniors 18 yrs, junior 21yrs will take place at the 17^th. Analogous bouts will take place the next day.

The detailed schedule can be found here: http://pl.armpower.net/calendar/event/xxxvi-world-armwrestling-championships-631.html

Finals are planned for the 20^th September. Current scores will be posted every day at arpower.net. Broadcast is also planned.

Last year’s World Armwrestling Championships 2013 were a record event, in every aspect: number of contestants, number of countries, TV and Internet broadcasts – live and reruns. The number of all spectators all over the world is estimated at a half million! What will the XXXVI World Championships be like? We’ll find out soon enough!

IM