2025 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Sat-Tue., Sept. 13-21
Arena Zagreb • Zagreb, Croatia
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The Cliff Keen Wrestling Club will have a pair of representatives vying for freestyle gold at the 2025 UWW Senior World Championships this week (Sat-Tue., Sept. 13-16) at Arena Zagreb in Zagreb, Croatia.
Austin Gomez will appear in his second world championships and third straight senior-level main event after also competing at 65kg in the 2024 Paris Olympics for Mexico last summer. Gomez has wrestled up a weight at 70kg since Paris. Sean Bormet and Kevin Jackson will be in the corner for Gomez in Croatia.
Real Woods will make his world championships debut after making the USA squad at 65kg in his first season of full-time freestyle competition. Alex Dieringer and Josh Churella will corner Woods next week.
When to Catch Them
Each day will feature two sessions. Preliminary and quarterfinal rounds will commence at 10:30 a.m. local time (4:30 a.m. ET) each day. Zagreb is six hours ahead of U.S. Eastern time; all times listed below are ET.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 13
Men’s Freestyle: 70kg (Austin Gomez)
Qualification Rounds: 4:30 a.m.
Semifinals: 1:00 p.m.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 14
Men’s Freestyle: 70kg (Austin Gomez)
Repechage: 4:30 a.m.
Medal Round: Noon
MONDAY, SEPT. 15
Men’s Freestyle: 65kg (Real Woods)
Qualification: 4:30 a.m.
Semifinals: 10:45 a.m.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 16
Men’s Freestyle: 65kg (Real Woods)
Repechage: 4:30 a.m.
Medal Round: Noon
How to Catch the Action
Live video, live results and bracket updates will be available in the United States through FloWrestling.org across desktops, mobile devices, tablets and connected televisions. FloWrestling is also available on Roku, Fire TV, Chromecast and Apple TV. All video footage from the event will be archived and stored in a video library for FloWrestling subscribers to watch for the duration of their subscription.
The CKWC Representatives
Austin Gomez — Gomez has competed up at 70kg since the Paris Olympics and has fared well in 2025, rolling to a Pan American title in May after claiming bronze at the first UWW Ranking Series event in Zagreb last February. Most recently, Gomez defeated former world champion Iszmail Muszukajev, 10-0, in the Polyák Imre & Varga János Memorial quarterfinals in July before withdrawing with injury. Gomez, a two-time NCAA All-American, transferred to Michigan at the 2023-24 semester break and posted a 13-3 record with runner-up finishes at the Big Ten and NCAA Championships. He is a Mexican citizen on his father’s side.
Real Woods — After joining the Cliff Keen WC last fall, Woods qualified for his first world team is just his first season of domestic freestyle competition. He took fourth place at the U.S. Open in April then won the World Team Trials Challenge Tournament to punch his ticket to Final X, where he swept the best-of-three championship series, 7-3 and 5-4, against Joey McKenna. In all, Woods has previously competed in just five total freestyle tournaments — one being the Muhament Malo last February in Albania, where he took bronze at 65kg. Woods was a four-time NCAA All-American at Stanford and Iowa, including an 141-pound finalist in 2023.
