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freestyle wrestling
Sign in to savestyle of amateur wrestling
Key facts
- Focus
- Wrestling , Grappling
- Hardness
- Full-contact
- Famous practitioners
- (see notable practitioners below)
- Parenthood
- Catch wrestling and various other international wrestling styles
- Olympic sport
- Since 1904
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- amateur wrestling
- Founded by
- British Empire
- Sport
- combat sport
- Image
- FreestyleWrestling2.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
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Freestyle wrestling is a style of wrestling. It is one of two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic Games, along with Greco-Roman. 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.
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