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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.
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 ...
Wrestlers from the United States have taken part in most of the major men's freestyle wrestling competitions over the years, in particular the Olympic Games and World Wrestling Championships. Men's freestyle wrestling competition at the Olympics was first held in 1904. FILA (now known as United World Wrestling) began holding World Championships ...
Folkstyle wrestling is the form of wrestling practiced in Elementary School, Middle School, High School, and (for males) Collegiately in the United States. Freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling is practiced at all age levels as well, by different wrestling clubs and teams across the country, and by Team USA at international competitions.
The United States Olympic team trials for the sport of wrestling are contested quadrennially to determine the country's representative at the Summer Olympic Games on each style (men's and women's freestyle and Greco-Roman) and weight class. [1] The event is conducted by the national governing body of the sport, currently USA Wrestling. [2]
The rules and style of collegiate/folkstyle wrestling differ from the Olympic styles of freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling. There are collegiate wrestling programs in almost all U.S. states, and one university in Canada. [1] Women's wrestling at the U.S. college level uses two different rulesets.
The World Championships for men's freestyle wrestling began in 1951. The World Championships takes place during non-Olympic years. 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.
Games Gold Silver Bronze 1904 St. Louis details: Charles Ericksen Norway William Beckmann United States Jerry Winholtz United States 1908–1920: not included in the Olympic program