The Jacob Curby Foundation has organized a tremendous event for May 21st - a dual meet competition between the National Champions of the USA and an "International Dream Team" of World Champions, Olympic Champions and medalists. The meet will begin at 6 PM at Lyons Township High School's Vaughan Gym. I am inviting you to attend this memorable event and also asking you to pass the information along to your wrestlers, and anyone else in your wrestling community.
This is really shaping up to be a spectacular event. The international line up of wrestlers committed is a who’s who of Greco wrestlers. You don’t see a group like competing on US soil accept in an Olympic year when a US city is hosting the Olympics. The competition is at Lyons Township High School at 6:00 on Saturday May 21st. There will be a kids clinic beforehand from 2:00-3:30 run by National Coaches Steve Fraser and Momir Petkovic (both Olympic Champions) and assisted by the visiting foreign coaches. Advance tickets ($10) only at: www.curbycup.com Your ticket gets you into the clinic. Donations are also accepted at the website.
The lineup looks like this:
55kg World Silver medalist and Asian Champion, Gyu-Jin Choi from Korea v. Spencer Mango Olympian
60kg World Silver Medalist Ryutaro Matsumoto from Japan v. Joe Betterman National Champion from Chicago
66kg European Bronze Medalist and Junior World Siver Medalist Aleksandar Maksimovic from Serbia v. Harry Lester 2-time World Bronze medalist
74kg Olympic Champion and World Champion, Manachar Kvirkelia from Georgia v. Ben Provisor
84kg World Champion, Hristo Marinov from Bulgaria v. Jordan Holm
96kg World Silver medalist and World Bronze medalist, Jimmy Lidberg from Sweden v. Justin Ruiz World Bronze Medalist
120kg Olympic Bronze medalist and European Bronze medalist, Mindaugas Mizgaitis from Lithuania v. Dremiel Byers World Champion
