21. Wrestling History history history of wrestling history. Origin. The first recorded olympic wrestlingmatch occurred in the olympics in 708 BC. wrestling was highly valued as http://wrestlegirl.com/jhistory.htm

History of Wrestling Origin: The first recorded Olympic wrestling match occurred in the Olympics in 708 BC. Wrestling was highly valued as a form of military exercise without weapons. There were two distinct versions of the game, differing according to the holds and the methods of deciding the victor. Variations: Orthia pale Upright and Proper Wrestling The object of this type of wrestling was simply to throw the opponent to the ground. Three falls constituted a loss for that opponent, and the winner was called the "triakter". The match continued without stops until one man emerged victorious. Kato pale Ground Wrestling Victory in this competition depended on one competitor acknowledging defeat. Defeat was indicated by raising one's right hand with the index finger pointed. Rules of the Game: Blows were not allowed. Tripping was permitted. No biting or gouging was allowed. There was no weight distinction. The wrestlers were anointed with olive oil then dusted with powder to make them easier to grasp. The competition took place in the "keroma", or beeswax, a muddy and sticky arena. Characteristics of a Good Wrestler: Since there was no weight provision in the Olympics, it is obvious that the sport required a strong and stout build. A special combination of agility, skill and craft were also necessary.

22. Commonwealth - Wrestling When the modern olympic Games began in Athens in 1896 wrestling was one of thesports Elliot has his place in history as the first olympic weightlifting http://groups.msn.com/CommonwealthWrestling/historyofwrestling.msnw

var nEditorialCatId = 326; MSN Home My MSN Hotmail Shopping ... Money Web Search: document.write(' Groups Groups Home My Groups Language ... Help Commonwealth - Wrestling CommonwealthWrestling@groups.msn.com What's New Join Now HOME PAGE 2005 COMMONWEALTH WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIPS ... Tools History of Wrestling HISTORY Wrestling has been popular throughout recorded history. Origins of the sport can be traced back 15,000 years through depictions in cave drawings in France. Early Egyptian and Babylonian reliefs depict wrestlers using most of the holds known to the present-day sport. In ancient Greece, wrestling occupied a prominent place in legend and literature; wrestling competition, brutal in many aspects, was the supreme contest of the ancient Olympic Games. The ancient Romans borrowed heavily from Greek wrestling, but eliminated much of its brutality. During the Middle Ages (5th century to 15th century) wrestling remained popular in Europe and enjoyed the patronage of many monarchs. Royal houses in Japan also supported the sport. Early North American settlers brought a strong wrestling tradition from England to their new home. The colonists also found wrestling to be popular among Native Americans. Amateur wrestling flourished and was a popular activity at country fairs, holiday celebrations, and military exercises.

23. The History Of Wrestling. Historical Facts About Wrestling Matches. The history and origins of wrestling. wrestling made it s olympic debut inthe Games of 708 BC It was apparently a much more violent, punishing sport in http://athleticscholarships.net/history-of-wrestling.htm

Home About Us What We Do Questions ... Contact Us the origins and roots of wrestling FACTS AND INFORMATION ABOUT the sport How it all began. The ancient Greek Olympic Games first put wrestling on the map. Wrestling made it's Olympic debut in the Games of 708 B.C. It was a much more violent, punishing sport in the early days, when it had closer ties to military training. Wrestling spread through the Roman world, as well as other early civilizations in India, Japan, China and throughout the Middle East. Wrestling all but died out with the Olympic Games in the Dark Ages, but it was natural that when organizers of the 1896 Olympics were searching for sports with roots in antiquity, they looked to wrestling. It was the showpiece event of those Olympics, much as the 100-metre final is in the modern Olympics. Modern Greco-Roman wrestling was first mad popular in France. At the same time, a less restrictive brand of wrestling made inroads in the Western world. Unlike Greco-Roman wrestlers, who tried to throw or otherwise force their opponents to the mat with holds around the upper body, freestyle wrestlers had more options. They could trip their opponents, grab and their legs and use their own legs in holds and take-downs. Fittingly, freestyle wrestling also became known as “catch as catch can” and proved to be popular entertainment in the 19th Century. And here’s where the history gets a little confusing. Despite being a revival of the Olympic tradition, it seems the wrestling showcased at the 1896 Games was closer to freestyle than classical Greco-Roman. The toast of the 1896 competition was Germany’s Carl Schumann in the heavyweight class – not so much for his wrestling victory, but for the fact that he was also a gold medalist in gymnastics.

24. History Of Wrestling: FILA - International Wrestling Hall Of Fame GrecoRoman wrestling limits holds to the upper body. olympic HISTORY_. wrestling was on the programme at the first modern http://www.filahalloffame.com/historyofwrestling.html

Contact Information International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles Avenue Juste-Olivier 17 1006 Lausanne Switzerland TEL (4121) 312 84 26 FAX (4121) 323 60 73 fila@fila-wrestling.com FILA Hall Location 405 W. Hall of Fame Stillwater, OK 74075 TEL 405-377-5243 FAX 405-377-5244 Monday - Friday On weekends by appointment. Please call ahead of your visit. FILA Links FILA FILA Database FILA Calendar WRESTLING ORIGIN With the possible exception of track and field (athletics), wrestling is the most ancient sport known to have been continuously practised competitively. Wrestling was introduced into the ancient Olympics in 708 BC, shortly after the Games' recorded history began in 776 BC. Wrestling pre-dates the ancient Olympic Games. Cave drawings of wrestlers from 3000 BC in the Sumero-Akkadian civilisation have been found. Similar wall paintings exist from ancient Egyptian civilisations circa 2400 BC.

25. 2004.com - Olympic History - Ancient History At the 20th Olympiad in 688 BC one of the most popular olympic sports even today A combination of boxing and wrestling, a sport of rather violent and http://www.2004.com/ohistory_ancient.asp

Home OLYMPIC WINNERS 2004 NEWS 2004 Athens ... Olympic truce A game for a God Once upon a time the Olympics was an event that started in order to honour the mythical God Zeus, the father of Greek Gods. From the beginning the Olympics was a local competition but later on more and more Greek city states participated. 293 events were organized during almost twelve centuries. The Olympic area was a combination of temples, halls and the stadium. The Temple of Zeus was one of the Seven Wonders of the World with a 40 feet high statue in gold and ivory of the god. A game for freeborn Greek In a beautiful valley, at the city of Olympia in the state of Elis, 320 km west of Athens, the first organised Olympic Games were held 776 BC. The games took place every four years and were open only for freeborn Greek men. Most of the athletes came in the beginning from wealthy families because they had to pay their own expenses.

26. Saunders' Can Claim Place In Olympic History 06/23/04 place in olympic history. Couple will coach 1st women s wrestling team In its inaugural appearance at the olympic Games, women s wrestling will be http://www.ahwatukee.com/afn/sports/articles/040623f.html

Home Community Education Sports ... Search Saunders' can claim place in Olympic history Couple will coach 1st women's wrestling team By Jim Powers Sports Editor The closest Tricia Saunders came to experiencing the Olympic Games was vicariously through her husband, Townsend, who was named to the 1992 and 1996 U.S. wrestling teams. Now she has an opportunity to participate in the Games for real, and with Townsend by her side. The Ahwatukee Foothills couple will coach the first U.S. women's wrestling team at the 2004 Summer Games in Athens, Greece, in August. "I am thrilled to be a coach," Tricia said. "There is no other position I would rather be in. There is nothing bittersweet about this." Back in 1992 and 1996 while watching Townsend earn a spot on the U.S. team and earn a silver medal in 1996 Tricia felt the sting of being ostracized because women's wrestling had not been included as an Olympic sport. She had done everything in her power to shed light on the sport, winning four women's world championships as one of America's most successful female wrestlers. Injuries clouded her final two years of competition, and now at age 30, she doesn't need to compete in the Olympics to fill the void left in the 1990s.

27. Times Online - Olympics Great Britain has won only two olympic wrestling titles since the Second World Select section here, The competition, Ancient origins, olympic history http://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,11094,00.html

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28. The Decathlon In Olympic History - DECA, The Decathlon Association history of the Decathlon as an olympic event, from Ancient Greece to the New According to most evidence, wrestling was the last event and necessary only http://www.decathlonusa.org/history.html

Sponsored by The Decathlon in Olympic History Table of Contents: The Jim Thorpe Story The Ancient Pentathlon The Middle Ages Early Olympic History ... The Age of Boycotts The Jim Thorpe Story When King Gustav V of Sweden presented awards at the 1912 Olympic Games of Stockholm, he proclaimed to the decathlon winner, an American Indian named Jim Thorpe, as the world's top athlete. "You sir, are the world's greatest athlete." Incidentally, Jim is purported to have replied, "Thanks, King" to the Swedish monarch, a story, true or not, which itself has become part of the Thorpe saga. Ever since, the Olympic decathlon champion or world record holder has been dubbed "the World's Greatest Athlete." And rightly so, since the decathlon is the only objective test of all around athletic ability. Decathletes must contest ten separate events and have those performances tallied on a standard scoring table. The decathlon measures basic sporting ability like jumping, sprinting and throwing. Within the backdrop and rules of track and field, decathlon champions must exhibit, the 4 S's: speed, spring, strength and stamina. Since 1912 great decathlon champions like Bob Mathias, Rafer Johnson, Bruce Jenner and Daley Thompson and others have become household names. But they all owe much to the legend of Thorpe.

29. Gym - History Of Wrestling - Real Pro Wrestling history 14 Pro wrestling in the 1970s history 15 - Pro wrestling MakesBiggest Change history 7 - olympic Stars Turned Pro http://www.realprowrestling.com/gym/section/4/content/244C2B01-EDCA-6BCC-0FE03A4

Gym - History of Wrestling History 01 - Origins of the Sport more... History 02 - Long matches change sport RealProWrestling is proud to bring to its fans a new weekly column that will delve into the long and remarkable heritage of the sport of wrestling. Each week, Mike Chapman will write a column on the sport's history. The columns will discuss the early days of the sport and show how it developed and grew into two major strains, amateur and professional. more... History 03 - Earl Caddock Makes the Transition Many boxing experts consider Nat Fleischer to be the top historian in the entire sport. He wrote dozens of books and was publisher of the legendary The Ring magazine, which began publication in the 1920s. more... History 04 - Saga of Earl Caddock Continues Earl Caddock made the transition from three-time national AAU champion to world heavyweight professional champion on April 9, 1917, when he took the world title from the great Joe Stecher in Omaha. The epic match lasted nearly three hours, with each man winning a pin fall and Stecher declaring he was too exhausted to continue for the third and deciding fall. more...

30. History 07 - Olympic Stars Turned Pro - Real Pro Wrestling history 7 olympic Stars Turned Pro wrestling for France, he won the olympicGreco-Roman title in 1924 then moved to America and took up pro wrestling. http://www.realprowrestling.com/news/details/content/244C2B01-EDCA-6BCC-0FE03A40

History 07 - Olympic Stars Turned Pro In the early 1920s, many Olympic champions and medal winners tried their hand at professional wrestling, bringing the amateur and the pro sports closer together once again. The promoters were interested in packing the arenas and making money, not in real wrestling contests. In a desperate attempt to bring back the crowds of the Gotch era, they introduced pre-arranged matches that would include fancy maneuvers that were impossible to do in real matches. From that point on, double crosses and working matches were common in pro wrestling. The new emphasis was on entertainment, not competitive matches. However, there would still continue to be shoots for several more decades (more on that later). Some top amateur wrestlers decided they wanted a crack at the money, too. Among the Olympians trying the pro sport were: Dr. Fred Myers of Chicago won four national AAU titles and placed third in the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium, at 176-plus pounds; Nat Pendleton was a native of Iowa who learned to wrestle from a Farmer Burns mail order course. He was unbeaten during his college career at Columbia University in New York, won four national AAU titles and captured a silver medal in the 1920 Olympics at 176-plus pounds; Robin Reed was a native of Portland, Oregon, who was one of the biggest amateur stars of all time. He never lost an amateur match any time, any place. He won four weight divisions at the Northwest Olympic Trials of 1924 and then breezed to a gold medal at 134 pounds at the Paris Olympics. He also won three national AAU titles;

31. Ancient History Of The Olympics - The Ancient Olympic Games Ancient history of the Olympics. Read about the legendary origins of the ancient and consisted of discus, javelin, long jump, running, and wrestling. http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/olympics/a/aa021798.htm

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32. International Programs - Canadian Interuniversity Sport wrestling olympic medalist Verbeek to lead Canada on sport s inaugural trip Verbeek, a threetime senior national champion, made history last summer in http://www.cisport.ca/e/international/story_detail.cfm?id=319

33. General Releases - The Iowa State University Cyclones - Official Athletic Site AMES, Iowa All five Iowa State olympic gold medalist wrestlers will return wrestlers in US history, winning a gold medal at the 1992 olympic Games in http://cyclones.collegesports.com/genrel/050405aac.html

MEN'S SPORTS Men's Cyclone Sports Basketball Cross Country Football Golf ... WOMEN'S SPORTS Women's Cyclone Sports Basketball Cross Country Golf Gymnastics ... Volleyball setNav("mainsports",["e5c68e","e5c68e"],["cc0000","e5c68e"],["000066","000066"]) Cyclones.com WEB Printer-Friendly Format E-mail this article All Five ISU Olympic Wrestling Gold Medalists Return To Ames For Legacy Dinner Glen Brand, Dan Gable, Ben Peterson, Kevin Jackson and Cael Sanderson will be in attendance. May 4, 2005 AMES, Iowa - All five Iowa State Olympic gold medalist wrestlers will return to Ames to be honored at a Golden Legacy Dinner June 17 at The Hotel at Gateway Center. Olympic champions Glen Brand (London, 1948), Dan Gable (Munich, 1972), Ben Peterson (Munich, 1972), Kevin Jackson (Barcelona, 1992) and Cael Sanderson (Athens, 2004) will speak at the celebration. Tickets are $75 each or $550 for a table of eight. Proceeds will benefit the Iowa State wrestling program. A social hour will start at 6:30 p.m. followed by dinner at 7:30 p.m. and the program at 8 p.m. "This should be an extraordinary event in Iowa State athletics history," ISU athletics director Bruce Van De Velde said. "Just having one of these legendary competitors back would be great. To have all of them together at once in the same room is unprecedented."

34. Gazette.com Springs women take silver, bronze, make olympic history But wrestling historywas lost on McMann, and the gold medal, too. http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=1306181&secid=22

35. Finnish Olympic Committee - Finnish Olympic History Finnish olympic history can be traced further back in time than usually thought . Verner Weckman (wrestling) and Verner Järvinen (Ancientstyle discus http://www.noc.fi/english/olympic_history/finnish_olympic_history/?NDD=1

36. Canada At The Olympics olympics to become the first Canadian to win a wrestling olympic medal. She is the only person in olympic history to be awarded all 3 medals in the http://www.members.shaw.ca/kcic1/olympics.html

Olympic Information about Canada PRESENTS Canada's Olympians Canada has a proud record of participation in the Olympic Games. This page will provide some of the details. THE OLYMPIC GAMES Canada was awarded the 1976 Summer Games in Montreal, QC and the 1988 Winter Games in Calgary, AB . Canada will host the 2010 Winter Games and Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver/Whistler, BC. We will also participate in the 2006 Winter Games in Turin, Italy, and the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, China. The Summer and Winter Olympic games were held during the same year up to and including 1992, after which the same-year format was dropped. The next Winter Olympics was held two years later in 1994. The Summer and Winter Olympic games are now held in alternating two year cycles. The Games were not held during the 2 World Wars. Canada's Olympic History Since the start of the "Modern" Summer Games (1896) in Athens Greece, Canada has participated in every Olympics except two. Canada did not attend the the first Games in 1896 and, they joined the USA, Japan, China and West Germany in the boycott of the 1980 Moscow Summer Games. Canada's Summer Olympic Games History Year Host City Gold Silver Bronze Total Athens Sydney Atlanta Barcelona Seoul Los Angeles Moscow No Canadian participation Montreal Munich Mexico City Tokyo Rome Melbourne Helsinki London London Cancelled due to World War II Tokyo/Helsinki Cancelled due to World War II Berlin Los Angeles Amsterdam Paris Antwerp Berlin Cancelled due to World War I Stockholm London

37. Natural History Magazine | Feature New olympic events were introduced shortly after wrestling and the pentathlon . olympic history records the deaths of several boxers—though surprisingly http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/0704/0704_feature.html

July-August 2004 With Hands or Swift Feet The ancient Greek city-states were rarely as united as they were at the Olympic Games. By David C. Young This article has been adapted from A Brief History of the Olympic Games, Olympia was the site of the ancient Olympic Games, held every four years from about 776 B.C. until about 400 A.D. In those twelve centuries the political landscape inevitably underwent many changes, but Olympic events continued to attract athletes and spectators from Greek city-states and colonies throughout the Mediterranean. Map: Patricia J. Wynne B.C. , maybe 300 men from the Greek city-states and colonies competed in about fourteen events. In antiquity, perhaps as many as 40,000 spectators could watch the games. Today, because of modern electronic communication, the whole world watches. For the poet Pindar of Thebes, whose victory odes immortalized the greatest contenders of the Hellenic world between 498 and 446 B.C. , the athletic contest served as a microcosm of the human struggle to surpass ordinary achievements. In athletic games the victor wins the glory his heart desires as crown after crown is placed on his head

38. INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS If the olympic Games are a history of mankind, wrestling is the prologue. When theancient Games of the Olympiad were born, wrestling already was an ancient http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/index_uk.asp?SportCode=WR

39. History Inclusion of Women’s wrestling in the olympic Games 2004 competition for thefirst time in the history of the olympic Games, available in French through http://www.athens2004.gr/en/WrestlingHistory

The official website of the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games - Games of the XXVIII Olympiad Daily Summaries: Home Sports Wrestling History Javascript must be enabled to view this page, although the important information on the page is also available to browsers that do not support scripts. History Wrestling can be traced far back into antiquity. Wrestling was one of the sports in the programme of the first ancient Olympic Games in Greece in 776 B.C..  It also was part of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, with the inclusion of a competition in the Greco-roman style without any weight category specifications. There followed a short period when this sport was excluded. However, in 1908 Greco-roman wrestling returned to the programme of the Olympic Games. Meanwhile, free style was incorporated to the Olympic Games in 1904. In September 2001 the International Olympic Committee took the following two decisions on Wrestling: Reduction of the weight categories for men from 16 to 14, in both Greco-roman and free style. The International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles (Federation International de Lutte Amateur - FILA) was founded in 1912.ÂÂ

40. Wrestling In modern history, Greek athletes have won many distinctions in this specific At the ATHENS 2004 olympic Games, wrestling took place at the Ano Liossia http://www.athens2004.gr/athens2004/page/legacy?lang=en&channel=Wrestling

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