Public class of wrestling was held in the Sports Hall of the I National Training Center of the Serbian Institute of Sport and Sports Medicine

Minister of Youth and Sports of the Republic of Serbia, Mr. Vanja Udovicic, and the director of the Serbian Institute of Sport and Sports Medicine, Mr. Goran Bojović, opened a public class of wrestling on Saturday 10/08/2016 in the Sports Hall of the Serbian Institute of Sport and Sports Medicine. On the same occasion the Institute organized free medical checkup and motorability testing for children.

Besides the Minister Udovičić and the Director Bojovic, the opening was attended by the President of the Wrestling Federation of Serbia Zeljko Trajkovic and the Olympic gold medalist Davor Štefanek. At the opening of the event the director welcomed everyone and stressed that the Serbian Institute of Sport and Sports Medicine, as a lead institution in Serbian sport, is there to help and provide all the necessary service to athletes.

The Minister Mr. Udovicic on this occasion talked about the full implementation of the new Law on Sport, which entered into force on 16 February 2016, which stipulates that medical checkups for children from 6 to 14 years, athletes in clubs and other sports organizations, engaged in organized sports activities, will from now on be financed from the health insurance Fund, which means that neither clubs nor parents of young athletes will no longer bear the costs of regular medical examination. As each athlete must perform a regular medical checkup every six months in order to be able to compete, this provision will greatly facilitate the functioning of the clubs, but will also help parents of the young athletes to whom this cost was a huge financial burden on the household budget.

Besides socializing with the Minister, free medical checkup and motor ability testing, and training with the wrestlers, children could also see a presentation film about winning a gold Olympic medal of Davor Štefanek in Rio, and the results of the Wrestling Federation of Serbia in the long history of 104 years.

"We want to return to those times when the sport was free, and we are working on that systematically," concluded Mr. Udovičić.