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Amateur wrestling vs Jūkendō

Amateur wrestling and Jūkendō side by side, from the facts recorded for each art.

Amateur wrestlingJūkendō
Country of origin—Japan
Typewrestling and amateur sportsbudō, gendai budō and martial arts
Competition at the OlympicsYes – 1 Olympic event recorded—
Notable practitioners here33061
Top countries of practitionersUnited States, Iran and JapanFrance

Amateur wrestling

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).

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Jūkendō

Jūkendō (銃剣道) is the Japanese martial art of bayonet fighting, and has been likened to kendo (but with bayonets instead of swords).

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Facts from Wikidata (CC0): Q838089, Q1717983. Practitioner counts are the people with a profile on this site. Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.