Amateur wrestling
Widespread form of sport wrestling
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Amateur wrestling is a variant of wrestling practiced at Olympic, collegiate, scholastic, and other levels. There are two international wrestling styles performed at the Olympic Games, freestyle and Greco-Roman, both of which are governed by the United World Wrestling (UWW).
At the middle school and high school levels in the United States, wrestlers compete in scholastic wrestling. In collegiate wrestling, there are minor differences in some scholastic wrestling rules.
The rise in the popularity of the combat sport mixed martial arts (MMA) has increased interest in amateur wrestling due to its effectiveness within the sport and its consideration as a core discipline.
Styles and branches of Amateur wrestling
Notable Amateur wrestling athletes and practitioners
- Ken Kesey United States
- Brock Lesnar Canada
- Eduard Kokoity Soviet Union
- André the Giant France
- Kurt Angle United States
- Edge Canada
- Artur Aleksanyan Armenia
- Milo of Croton
- Mariya Stadnik Ukraine
- The Iron Sheik United States
- Jake Hager United States
- Aleksandr Medved Soviet Union
- Stanka Zlateva Bulgaria
- Ted DiBiase United States
- Sharif Sharifov Azerbaijan
- Saori Yoshida Japan
- Khutulun Mongol Empire
- Geno Petriashvili Georgia
- Risako Kawai Japan
- Armen Nazaryan Soviet Union
- Eduard Pütsep Estonia
- Helen Maroulis United States
- Kyle Snyder United States
- Arsen Julfalakyan Armenia
- Heiki Nabi Estonia
- Tamás Lőrincz Hungary
- Rafig Huseynov Azerbaijan
- Musa Evloev Russia
- Zaurbek Sidakov Russia
- Rovshan Bayramov Azerbaijan
- Ricky Steamboat United States
- Guzel Manyurova Kazakhstan
- Chas Betts United States
- Bob Backlund United States
- Jabrayil Hasanov Azerbaijan
- Hamza Yerlikaya Turkey
3306 people in this reference practise Amateur wrestling.
Amateur wrestling competitions
- 2024 Pan American Wrestling Championships
- 2024 Asian Wrestling Championships
- 2024 European U23 Wrestling Championships
- 2024 Pan American Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament
- 2024 African Wrestling Championships
- 2023 Grand Prix Zagreb Open
- 2023 Pan American Wrestling Championships
- 2023 European Wrestling Championships – Men's Greco-Roman 130 kg
- 2023 Asian Wrestling Championships
- 2023 European Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 76 kg
- Grand Prix de France Henri Deglane 2023
- wrestling at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games
- 2023 European Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 57 kg
- 2023 European U23 Wrestling Championships
- 2022 Yasar Dogu Tournament
- 2022 Pan American Wrestling Championships
- 2022 European U23 Wrestling Championships
- 2022 European Wrestling Championships – Men's Freestyle 79 kg
- 2022 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 79 kg
- 2022 European Wrestling Championships – Women's Freestyle 76 kg
- 2022 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 76 kg
- 2022 European Wrestling Championships – Women's Freestyle 53 kg
- 2022 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 53 kg
- 2022 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 50 kg
115 competitions in total.
External links
Facts from Wikidata Q838089 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.