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.[3]
Two individual competitions under the same name were held in
1956 and
1958 before establishing the current World Cup comeptition in 1973.[4] Besides that, the UWW had another competition called the
Individual World Cup as a replacement event for the 2020 World Cup Championships.
^Joseph R. Scalzo was the wrestling coach at the University of Toledo and later an AAU executive, who was instrumental in promoting Toledo, Ohio, as a host city for 17 annual editions of Freestyle Wrestling World Cup.
^Golubev, V. L. (1981).
Soslan Andiyev [Сослан Андиев (1981 год, Москва, Физкультура и спорт)] (in Russian). Moscow:
Fizkultura i sport.
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.[3]
Two individual competitions under the same name were held in
1956 and
1958 before establishing the current World Cup comeptition in 1973.[4] Besides that, the UWW had another competition called the
Individual World Cup as a replacement event for the 2020 World Cup Championships.
^Joseph R. Scalzo was the wrestling coach at the University of Toledo and later an AAU executive, who was instrumental in promoting Toledo, Ohio, as a host city for 17 annual editions of Freestyle Wrestling World Cup.
^Golubev, V. L. (1981).
Soslan Andiyev [Сослан Андиев (1981 год, Москва, Физкультура и спорт)] (in Russian). Moscow:
Fizkultura i sport.