Wrestling World Cup is an international
wrestling competition among teams representing member nations of the
United World Wrestling (UWW) the sport's global governing body. The cups have been conducted by FILA (the UWW predecessor) every year since the 1973 tournament. The World Cup began as a dual-meet competition for the top teams on each continent, but now features the top teams in the rankings of the previous year's
world championships.
Two individual competitions under the same name were held in
1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...
and
1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
before establishing the current World Cup comeptition in 1973.
beside that UWW had another competition called
Individual World Cup as a replacement event for the 2020 World Championships.
Competitions
Men's freestyle
;Titles
* 15
* 15
* 8
* 7
* 2
* 1
Men's Greco-Roman
;Titles
* 12
* 7
* 6
* 4
* 3
* 2
* 1
* 1
Women's freestyle
;Titles
* 11
* 6
* 1
* 1
See also
*
World Wrestling Championships
*
1956 Wrestling World Cup
The 1956 Wrestling World Cup was held on May 25–31 in Istanbul, Turkey, at the Mithatpaşa Stadium, under the auspices of FILA. The attendance of the event was around 20 thousand spectators at the stadium. Freestyle wrestling competition was held ...
*
1958 Wrestling World Cup
The 1958 Wrestling World Cup was held from June 20 to 22 in Sofia, Bulgaria. The second freestyle Wrestling World Cup drew 76 wrestlers from 14 countries. This was the second World Cup organized by FILA. As during the first edition in each weight ...
*
2020 Individual Wrestling World Cup
The inaugural 2020 Individual World Wrestling Cup was held in Belgrade, Serbia from 12–18 December 2020. It was a replacement event for the 2020 World Championships, which should have taken place in the same location, but since some criteria wer ...
References
;General
Всё о вольной борьбе : 1904-1996;Specific
External links
UWW Database
{{Main world cups
Wrestling competitions
United World Wrestling
World cups
Recurring sporting events established in 1973
Annual sporting events