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The World Wrestling Championships are the Greco-Roman Wrestling (men's, since 1904) and Freestyle Wrestling (men's since 1951 and women's since 1987) World Championships organized by United World Wrestling (UWW).
This is a List of World Championships medalists in women's freestyle wrestling. Light flyweight. 44 kg: 1987–1996; Games ... United World Wrestling [c] 0: 0: 1: 1:
The 2023 World Wrestling Championships was held from 16 to 24 September 2023 in Belgrade, Serbia. Wrestlers get a chance to win 90 quotas for the 2024 Summer Olympics from the Belgrade Worlds. Any nation that participated in the 2023 continental championships was eligible to participate in the World Championships.
It was held as the first of the ranking series of United World Wrestling in 2024. [1] [2] [3] With an aim to reward wrestlers participating in Ranking Series tournaments, the United World Wrestling will award prize money to the medal winners in all weight classes with a total prize money of 390,000 Swiss Francs. The gold medal winners at the ...
The 2019 World Wrestling Championships were held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan from 14 September to 22 September 2019. [ 1 ] The tournament served as qualification for the 2020 Summer Olympics , the top six wrestlers from each category earned their NOCs a qualification.
The World Championships for women's freestyle wrestling first began in 1987. Women's freestyle wrestling at the Olympics first began in 2004. The World Championships takes place during non Olympic years. At the World Championships team scoring is kept, while no official team statistics are kept at the Olympics.
This category groups professional wrestling championships that are mainly contested by women. Although women are eligible to contest for any men's championship, a male wrestler may also win a women's belt, however such occurrences are rare.
Women's wrestling has maintained a recognized world champion since 1937, when Mildred Burke won the original World Women's title. [4] She then formed the World Women's Wrestling Association in the early 1950s and recognized herself as the first champion, although the championship would be vacated upon her retirement in 1956.