Life Membership
Wrestling Australia Life Membership
Life Membership is the highest honour that can be bestowed by Wrestling Australia for longstanding and valued service to the sport of Wrestling and Associated Styles in Australia.
The sole and primary objectives for awarding a Wrestling Australia Life Membership is;
“To publicly recognise and honour the outstanding dedications, loyalty, service and/or contribution that an individual has made over a period of time or as a result of as significant milestone and/or achievement to Wrestling in Australia”.
Life Memberships Categories
It is recognised that many individuals give countless hours of their time, unquestionable loyalty and a dedicated service to Wrestling in Australia in a number of different roles. Wrestling Australia acknowledges that without these dedicated people, the sport of Wrestling cannot and could not prosper and would not have provided these basic enjoyments to the community and Australia.
In recognition of these dedicated people, Wrestling Australia has created two categories of Life Membership
- Gold Life Membership, and
- Silver Life Membership
Benefits of Gold Life Membership
- Free membership to Wrestling Australia
- Free entry to Wrestling Australia events
- Acknowledgement on the Wrestling Australia website as a Gold Life Member
Benefits of Silver Life Membership
- Free membership to Wrestling Australia
- Acknowledgement on the Wrestling Australia website as a Silver Life Member
Nomination Criteria- Guide to Gold Life Membership
Gold Life Memberships may be recommended for any outstanding contribution to Wrestling in Australia. The following do not attempt to be exhaustive guidelines, but rather to ensure the intent of the Award is to honour the individual’s contribution to Wrestling in any of the Gold Life memberships Categories.
The scope of the types of contributions that could be awarded, are as follows:
- The nominee has made a direct, recognised, and significant contribution to the success of the sport of Wrestling beyond that to an individual club in any one, some, or all of the following elements:
- Leadership, Status, positive and community impact, Management, Strategic Direction, Governance, Professionalism, Operation of Wrestling over a period of at least 10 years
- The nominee has made a direct, recognised, and significant contribution to the sporting success of Wrestling over a period of 10 years.
- The nominee has made a direct, recognised, and significant contribution to the success of Wrestling, as an official, committee person, delegate, or volunteer of a member’s club over a period of 10 years.
Nomination Criteria - Guide to Silver Life Membership
Silver Life Membership may be recommended for any highly meritorious contribution to Wrestling in Australia that is deserving of recognition. The following do not attempt to be exhaustive guidelines bur rather to ensure the intent of the Award is to honour the individual’s contribution to Wrestling.
The scope to the types of contributions that could be awarded, are as follows:
- The nominee has made a direct, recognised, and significant contribution to the success of the sport of Wrestling beyond that to an individual club in any one, some, or all of the following elements:
- Leadership, Status, positive and community impact, Management, Strategic Direction, Governance, Professionalism, Operation of Wrestling over a period of at least 5 years
- The nominee has made a direct, recognised, and significant contribution to the sporting success of Wrestling over a period of 5 years.
- The nominee has made a direct, recognised, and significant contribution to the success of Wrestling, as an official, committee person, delegate, or volunteer of a member’s club over a period of 5 years
The following people have been elected as Gold Life Members of Wrestling Australia
| Name | State | Recognition |
| John Saul | NSW | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a volunteer and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| Donald Brown | NSW | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of Wrestling as an official, coach, volunteer and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| John Kinsela | NSW | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of Wrestling as a coach and volunteer over a period of 10 years |
| Samuel Parker | VIC | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of Wrestling as a coach, volunteer and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| Kuldip Bassi | VIC | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a committee member over a period of 10 years |
| Les Neal | VIC | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a committee member over a period of 10 years |
| Brian Hodgson | VIC | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as an official and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| Lubo Hofr | SA | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of Wrestling as a coach, volunteer and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| David Schumacher | SA | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a volunteer and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| Robert Franklin | QLD | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a coach and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| Yuri Markov | QLD | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of Wrestling as a coach and volunteer over a period of 10 years |
| Witold Rejlich | ACT | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of Wrestling as a coach and volunteer over a period of 10 years |
| Anthony Goonan | ACT | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a volunteer and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| Chris Samios | WA | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of Wrestling as an official, coach, volunteer and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| George Samios | WA | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a volunteer and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| Kaye Ortis | SA | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a volunteer and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| Talgat Ilyasov | VIC | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling in a High-Performance Capacity over a period of 10 years |
| Larry Papadopoulos | NSW | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of Wrestling as an official, coach, volunteer and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| Ben Keaney | ACT | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of Wrestling as a coach, volunteer and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| Hughie Williams | QLD | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of Wrestling as a volunteer and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| David McIntyre | QLD | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of Wrestling as a volunteer and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| Leonid Zaslavsky | NSW | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of Wrestling as an official, coach, volunteer and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| Martin Schumacher | SA | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a volunteer and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| Uldis Rudevics | SA | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a volunteer and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| Stan Werner | SA | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a volunteer, committee member and coach over a period of 10 years |
| Jadranko Adrian Tesanovic | WA |
Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a coach, volunteer and committee member over a period of 10 years |
| Mohsen Lack | NSW | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a volunteer, committee member and coach over a period of 10 years |
The following people have been elected as Silver Life Members of Wrestling Australia
| Waldemar Chadzynski | QLD | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a volunteer over a period of 5 years |
| Todd Lawler | QLD | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a volunteer and committee member over a period of 5 years |
| Brett Cash | NSW | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling in a High- Performance Capacity over a period of 5 years |
| Alan Landy | WA | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling in a High- Performance capacity over a period of 5 years |
| Konstantin Ermakovich | VIC | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling in a High- Performance capacity over a period of 5 years |
| David Barns | WA | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a volunteer and committee member over a period of 5 years |
| Christopher Butler | WA | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a coach, volunteer and committee member over a period of 5 years |
| Stefan Rudevics | SA | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a referee, volunteer and committee member over a period of 5 years |
| Erica May | WA | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a volunteer and committee member over a period of 5 years |
| Andrew Farrell | NSW | Recognised as making a direct and significant contribution to the success of wrestling as a volunteer and committee member over a period of 5 years |