ETU WINS GOLD MEDAL AT 209 POUNDS AT THE CADET WORLD GRECO-ROMAN CHAMPIONSHIPS IN MARIBOR, SLOVENIA 
   Joshua Etu of Queensbury, N.Y. won a gold medal at 95 kg (209 pounds) at the Cadet World Greco-Roman Championships at the University Sports Hall in Maribor, Slovenia on Sunday, July 13. The Cadet World Championships featured the best athletes in the world between 14-16 years old. 
   Etu claimed the title with a 49 second pin over Adem Tasci of Turkey in the championship match. 
   He put together one of the greatest tournaments of any U.S. age-group wrestler in history.  
   In the course of the tournament, Etu won all of his matches by pin, with no match lasting more than 1:19. His five pins occurred in a combined 4:18. In the five matches, Etu allowed just one point, a reversal. 
   Etu opened the competition with a pair of pins on Friday, July 11, stopping Nikolai Gaidouk of Belarus in 1:11 and pinning Kumar Satish of India in 37 seconds 
   He won both of his bouts on Saturday, July 12, pinning Robert Benko of Yugoslavia, in 1:19 in the quarterfinals and pinning Victor Shostak of Ukraine in 22 seconds in the semifinals. 
   (Note: the times of Etu's pins are slightly different than reported on Saturday. These are the correct times). 
   This is the second straight year that Etu has qualified for the U.S. Cadet World Greco-Roman team. Etu recently completed his sophomore season for Queensbury High School. He is a member of the ATWA club. 
   He won both the freestyle and Greco-Roman titles at the Cadet World Team Trials in Evanston, Ill., April 11-13, but chose to compete in Greco-Roman at the World Championships. 
   Etu is the only U.S. wrestler in the tournament who won a medal. 
   The head coach of the U.S. Cadet World Greco-Roman team was Morrie Geselter of Deerfield, Ill. and the assistant coach was four-time Greco-Roman Olympian Mark Fuller of Provo, Utah. 
  1997 CADET GRECO-ROMAN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS at Maribor, Slovenia 
  U.S. results on July 13 
   95 kg./209 lbs. - Joshua Etu, Queensbury, N.Y. - pin Adem Tasci, Turkey, 0:49 
   NOTE: Etu claimed the gold medal. 
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