Greco-Roman, Graeco-Roman, or classic wrestling (Euro-English) is a style of wrestling that is practiced worldwide. Greco-Roman wrestling was included in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 and has been in every edition of the summer Olympics held since 1904. This style of wrestling forbids holds below the waist, which is the main feature that differentiates it from freestyle wrestling. This restriction results in an emphasis on throws, because a wrestler cannot use trips to bring an opponent to the ground or hook/grab the opponent's leg to avoid being thrown.
Freestyle wrestling is a style of wrestling. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic Games. High school wrestling and men's collegiate wrestling in the United States are conducted under different rules and termed scholastic and collegiate wrestling. U.S. collegiate women's wrestling is conducted under freestyle rules.
United World Wrestling (UWW) is the international governing body for the sport of Wrestling; its duties include overseeing wrestling at the World Championships and Olympics. It presides over international competitions for various forms of wrestling, including Greco-Roman, Freestyle, Grappling, and others. The flagship event of UWW is the World Wrestling Championships.
Sushil Kumar is a former Indian wrestler and two-time Olympic medallist. His 2008 Olympic medal was only the second for India in wrestling, and the first since Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav's bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics. In July 2009, he received the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna – India's highest honour for sportspersons. On 3 October 2010, Kumar handed the Queen's Baton to Prince Charles in the Queen's Baton Relay for the 2010 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony. He carried the Indian flag at the opening ceremony of 2012 London Olympics. Sushil won the gold medal in the 74 kg division at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Sushil won the gold medal in the 74 kg division at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. He is the first and only Indian to win a gold medal at World Wrestling Championships.
Yang Kyong-Il is a male freestyle wrestler from North Korea who is a double world champion and won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Brent Metcalf is an American former freestyle and folkstyle wrestler. Metcalf was a three-time member of the US World Team and two-time NCAA wrestling champion at the University of Iowa.
Frank Chamizo Marquez is a Cuban-Italian freestyle wrestler who competes at 74 kilograms. Starting his career in Cuba, Chamizo became a World Cup champion, World Championship medalist, and Pan American champion at 55 kilograms in 2010 and 2011 before immigrating to Italy in 2011 Since then, Chamizo became the greatest Italian wrestler of all time, racking up two World Championships, an Olympic bronze medal in 2016, an Individual World Cup silver medal, a European Games silver medal, four European Championships, and others.
Ghenadie Tulbea is an amateur Moldovan and Monegasque freestyle wrestler, who competed in the men's flyweight category. He has held two European Championship titles and a silver medal in the same division at the 2003 World Wrestling Championships in New York, New York, United States, and later represented his nation Moldova at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Throughout his sporting career, Tulbea has been training under his personal coach and mentor Nicolae Oreol for the Olympic Sports Club in Chișinău before he transferred his residency to Monaco and played for the wrestling team in 2010.
Abdulrashid Bulachevich Sadulaev is a Russian freestyle wrestler who competes at 92 kilograms and formerly at 97 and 86 kilograms. Sadulaev is widely regarded as one of the most dominant active freestyle wrestlers in the world.
This article details the qualifying phase for wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics. The competition at these Games comprised a total of 344 athletes coming from the different nations; each had been allowed to enter a maximum of 18.
The Russian National Freestyle Wrestling Championships 2015 (World Team Trials) were held in Kaspiysk, Dagestan, Russia in the Ali Aliyev Center, from 8–10 May 2015. The championships were attended by 6-7,000 spectators.
Soner Demirtaş is a Turkish freestyle wrestler who competes in the 74 kg division. He won the European title in 2016, 2017 and 2018. He was bronze medalist at the Rio Olympics. He is a member of the Ankara ASKI.
Magomedmurad Saidpashievich Gadzhiev is a Russian-born Polish former freestyle wrestler who claimed 2021 world gold medal.
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Zaur Rizvanovich Uguev is a Russian freestyle wrestler who competes at 57 kilograms. He claimed the 2020 Summer Olympic Games gold medal after back-to-back World Championships in 2018 and 2019, as well as a 2020 Individual World Cup title. A four-time Russian national champion, Uguev is also a European Games and European Championship medalist.
Nurmagomed Murtazalievich Gadzhiyev is a Russian former freestyle wrestler of Avar descent who represented Azerbaijan in the light heavyweight division (97 kg). Two-time European championships wrestling bronze medalist. He is a silver medalist of the second European Games in men's freestyle in 97 kg
Akhmed Musaevich Idrisov is a Russian freestyle wrestler from Dagestan who competes at 57 kilograms. Idrisov is the reigning U23 European Continental champion, a medalist from the Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin 2020 and the 2020 Russian National Championships and was the 2018 Junior World Champion.
Aslanbek Alanovich Sotiev is a Russian freestyle wrestler who currently competes at 97 kilograms and represents North Ossetia–Alania in the national circuit. Sotiev is the reigning U23 European Continental champion and was a silver medalist at the 2018 U23 World Championships as well as the Russian National Championships.
Osman Abdulvagabovich Nurmagomedov is a Russian-born Azerbaijani freestyle wrestler who currently competes at 92 kilograms. Nurmagomedov has medaled at the 2021 European Championships as well as the U23 edition also in 2021.
Dzhabrail Gadzhiradzhabovich Gadzhiev is a Russian-born Azerbaijani freestyle wrestler of Lezgin heritage, who claimed the gold medal at the 2023 CIS Games and 2019 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival.
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