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Greco-Roman wrestling

Also known as

lutte à mains plates · French wrestling

Description

Olympic wrestling style in which all holds are above the waist and tripping is barred. Despite its name it grew from a French folk style, the lutte à mains plates, and became, with freestyle, the standard for the Olympics and World Championships under the IAWF/FILA from 1921.

Related styles

Tags

wrestling · grappling · olympic

Sources

“Instead, it is a form of French folk-style wrestling originally called in the Provençal language lucho de la centuro en aut (wrestling above the waist) or, later in French, la lutte à mains plates (open-hand wrestling).”
— Green, Thomas A.; Svinth, Joseph R.. (2010). Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia of History and Innovation info
Greco-Roman wrestling - Wikipedia (English). Wikipedia (English) link history info

Identifiers

https://martial.is/entity/01M5JVVMHMHTEC6BVTPJNEEJWW
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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Greco-Roman wrestling. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M5JVVMHMHTEC6BVTPJNEEJWW - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
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@incollection{martialis_01M5JVVMHMHTEC6BVTPJNEEJWW, author = {Muñoz, Frederico}, title = {Greco-Roman wrestling}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database}, year = {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url = {https://martial.is/entity/01M5JVVMHMHTEC6BVTPJNEEJWW}, urldate = {ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }
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