Greco-Roman wrestling Weight Classes

 Greco-Roman wrestling is divided into four categories: schoolboys, cadets, juniors, and seniors. Schoolboys (young men ages 14–15; or age 13 with a medical certificate and parental authorization) wrestle in 10 weight classes range from 29 to 85 kg.Cadets (young men ages 16–17; or age 15 with a medical certificate and parental authorization) wrestle in 10 weight classes range from 39 to 100 kg.[9] Juniors (young men ages 18 to 20; or age 17 with a medical diploma and parental authorization) wrestle in eight weight classes ranging from 46 to 120 kg.Seniors (men ages 20 and up) wrestle in seven weight classes ranging from 50 to 120 kg. For men, there is also a special category for some Greco-Roman competitions, "Veterans", for men ages 35 and older, presumably featuring the same weight classes as seniors. Also, all of the men's age categories and weight classes can be applied to freestyle wrestling. Wrestlers after weigh-in may only wrestle in their own weight class. Wrestlers in the senior age category may wrestle up a weight class except for the heavyweight dissection (which starts at a weight more than 96 kg for the men).dissimilar nations may have different weight classes and different age category for their levels of Greco-Roman opposition.

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Freestyle and Greco-Roman Wrestling Difference

Freestyle and Greco-Roman Wrestling are two Olympic styles of wrestling, freestyle and Greco-Roman. With one major exception, the rules of the two styles are almost identical.

In Greco-Roman, a wrestler not attack opponent’s legs, nor use legs to trip, lift or execute other moves. Greco-Roman wrestler must wrestle from standing head against his opponent’s chest. is called passivity, and will result in "CONTACT" by  official. Greco-Roman official will say "contact red" before really indicating passivity by holding an open palm hand in the air offenders color indicated. There slight relaxation in not requiring a high arch attacker when a gut wrench is initiated on the mat, plus some modifications on hand.

In freestyle, both the arms and legs may execute holds or to defend against attack. If legs  part of the attack by an aggressor, no points are scored wrestlers are returned to standing. Only one official needs to see the leg usage move to nullify.

If legs prevent a move, attacker receives whatever points gained, a caution point and choice position. If standing is blocked, freestyle attacker receives 2 points plus position choice. If a move mat is prevented, freestyle attacker receives 1 point plus choice. Freestyle offenders receive a single care.

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Greco-Roman wrestling History

Greco-Roman wrestling name "Greco-Roman" was practical to this style of wrestling as a method of purporting it to be comparable to the wrestling formerly found in the very old civilizations adjacent the Mediterranean Sea particularly at ancient Greek Olympics. Greco-Roman wrestling is speculated that many styles of European folk wrestling may have spur the origins of Greco-Roman wrestling. According to FILA, a Napoleonic soldier name Jean Excreta first urban the style. Excreta performed in fair and called his style of wrestle "flat hand wrestling" to differentiate it from other form of hand-to-hand combat that acceptable striking. In 1848, Excreta recognized the rule that no hold below the waist were to be permissible; neither were sore holds or torsions that would hurt the adversary.
 "Flat hand wrestling" or "French wrestling" urbanized all throughout Europe and become a popular sport. Greco-Roman wrestling Italian wrestler Brasilia Bartlett first coin the term "Greco-Roman" for the game to underline the interest in "earliest principles." Many others in the 18th and 19th centuries sought to add value to their modern athletic practice by finding some relations with ancient counterpart. Greco-Roman wrestling 18th century work Gymnastics for Youth by Johann Friedrich Guts Moths described a form of young man wrestling called "orthopale"  that did not state any lower-body holds. Real early wrestling be quite special; see Greek wrestling.

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Greco-Roman wrestling Introduction

Greco-Roman wrestling is a method of wrestling that is skillful international. Greco-Roman wrestling be contest at the first contemporary Olympic Games in 1896 and has be incorporated in every journal of the summer Olympics held since 1908.Two wrestlers are score for their presentation in three two-minute period, which can be finished early by a pinball. This style of wrestle forbids hold below the waist which is the main difference flanked by itself and freestyle wrestling, the other form of wrestling at the Olympics.

Arm drags, bear hugs, and headlocks found in Freestyle have greater fame in Greco-Roman and throws especially known as a simplex are used, in which the offensive combatant lifts his enemy in a high arch while declining backward on his own neckline to a bridge in order to transport his opponent shoulder down to the mat. yet on the mat, a Greco-Roman wrestler must still find more than a few ways to turn his opponent's shoulders to the mat for a fall with no legs, including  techniques known as the corpse lock and the gut-wrench.

According to the global Federation of connected Wrestling Styles (FILA), Greco-Roman wrestling is one of the six major forms of amateur gung ho wrestling experienced globally today.

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