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Men's freestyle wrestling competition at the Olympics was first held in 1904. FILA (now known as United World Wrestling) began holding World Championships in men's freestyle in 1951. During Olympic years there is only six weight classes contested, with the World Championships featuring ten weight classes since 2018.
Aaron Brooks defeated reigning 86-kilogram gold medalist David Taylor in consecutive matches Saturday night at the U.S. Olympic wrestling trials, claiming a roster spot at the Paris Olympics.
2024 Olympic wrestling: Live updates as Adam Coon and Amit Elor wrestle for Team USA on Monday in Paris
In one of the most dramatic U.S. Olympic wrestling wins since Kurt Angle won gold with a freaking broken neck, Gable Stevenson claimed gold today in epic fashion. Going up against Georgia’s Geno ...
Freestyle wrestling (or, catch-as-catch-can wrestling as it was called prior to the 1948 Olympics) and weight classes both made their first appearance at the 1904 Summer Olympics. Women's freestyle wrestling competition was first held at the 2004 Summer Olympics. In 2013, the IOC voted to drop wrestling from the Summer Olympic program.
USA Wrestling (formerly known as the United States Wrestling Federation and as the United States Wrestling Association) is the organization that currently governs freestyle wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling in the United States. USA Wrestling is also the official representative to the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) and ...
The unseeded Blades, a 20-year-old from Chicago in her first Olympics, had won consecutive matches against the tournament’s No. 4, No. 5 and No. 1 seeds to reach the final wrestling match of the ...
The 2024 United States Olympic Team Trials for wrestling were held at the Bryce Jordan Center of State College, Pennsylvania, on April 19–20, 2024. [1] This event determined the representative of the United States of America for the 2024 Summer Olympics at each Olympic weight class .