Greco-Roman wrestling

The rings in the Greco-Roman wrestling ( Greco also an abbreviation of the English Greco - Roman) is a variant of wrestling. Together with the free-style wrestling, it forms the ring sporting disciplines at the Olympic Games.

Regulate

As we grapple with two counterparties are faced with on a mostly square mat. A printed on the mat red circle with a diameter of about three meters is the fighters as a guide. When Matt limitation is a white ring with a diameter of about six feet. The battle is divided into three two-minute battle sections. The aim is to place the opponent from the state in the bottom layer and with both shoulders on the mat.

Prohibitions are generally all actions which endanger the health of a wrestler: eg hitting, kicking, choking, over-stretching of the joints, the single finger touch or pull on hair or genitals. Also, the opponent may not be taken between eyebrows and mouth. Prohibited is also speaking on the mat. Battle objectives, site and time are thus identical in Greco -Roman and freestyle wrestling.

Handles and techniques

In Greco-Roman style only handles above the waistline are allowed, while also attacks with its own legs and against the legs of the opponent are allowed at freestyle wrestling. Typical handles in Greco- Roman wrestling:

• The arm stroke is a handle in the state fight in which the wrestler pulls on an arm of the opponent and pulls him down so that the direction pad. Basic technique is to pull the arm over his shoulder and to go himself on his knees to force the opponent from the state to the mat. There are also several variations of Armzugs.
• The Kopfhüftschwung is similar to the arm stroke, but the head is clutching here with one arm and carried out a rotational motion, usually to convey the opponent from a standing position on the mat.

History

As early as 3000 BC in ancient China, there were Ringer schools. In the year 708 BC the wrestling was included in the Olympic Games of antiquity.

The first wrestler tournaments of the modern era, including the first World Championships and the Olympic wrestler tournament of 1896 in Athens, were held in the Greco- Roman style. The freestyle wrestling, which has its origins in Anglo-Saxon countries, was until 1904 in St. Louis Olympic discipline.

In Europe, Hungary and Germany held in the 1920s, the supremacy in the Greco- Roman style. In the period from 1930 until the Second World War wrestler from Sweden and Finland were the best in the world. After the Second World War, the Soviet dominance Ringer both Greco-Roman and free style began. In addition strongholds developed in other countries in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe in the Greco- Roman style. Thus, especially here in Romania, Hungary and Yugoslavia to call.

Russia remained after the collapse of the Soviet Union leading nation in Greco -Roman style, but developed in the former states of the Soviet Union is now also becoming stronger wrestler. Kazakhstan, Cuba, Turkey and South Korea formed around the turn of the millennium usually the chasing group of Russia in the medal table. Also other former Soviet republics such as Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine are established in the world rankings. In general, the number of countries that can win medals in international tournaments, grown strong. With Asia, ( North ) America and Europe, there are three continents, which come from successful Greco wrestler.