Wrestling World Cup is an international
wrestling
Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...
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
A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...
.
Two individual competitions under the same name were held in
1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, ar ...
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
The World Wrestling Championships are the Amateur Wrestling World Championships organized by United World Wrestling. The Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling tournament began in 1904, and the Men's Freestyle Wrestling tournament began in 1951. The Women's ...
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1956 Wrestling World Cup
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1958 Wrestling World Cup
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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