United World Wrestling
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| Motto | Welcome to the New World of Wrestling |
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| Formation | 1912 |
| Type | Sports federation |
| Headquarters | Corsier-sur-Vevey, outside of Lausanne, Switzerland |
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Membership
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Representatives from 176 national federations |
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President
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Nenad Lalović |
| Website | UnitedWorldWrestling.org |
United World Wrestling (UWW) is the international governing body for the sport of amateur wrestling; its duties include overseeing wrestling at the Olympics. It presides over international competitions for various forms of wrestling, including Greco-Roman wrestling, freestyle wrestling for men and women, as well as others. The flagship event of UWW is the Wrestling World Championships. It was formerly known as the FILA (French: Fédération Internationale des Luttes Associées, lit. 'International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles'), having assumed its current name in September 2014.
As of 2016, UWW sets rules and regulations and holds international competitions in the following wrestling styles:
Adaptations to the international regulations set by UWW are usually made by each national federation for all national and regional competitions.
UWW is the body responsible for supervising Olympic wrestling, and so competitions for freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling take place every Summer Olympiad.
Besides the Summer Olympics, there are also various international competition such as the Commonwealth Games, the Pan-American Games, etc. that have wrestling as an official sport. Also, the Continental Championships and Continental Cups usually take place annual and are regulated by each Continental Committee. Then, there are World Championships that usually take place among the various nations every year (for the senior age category, every year except the year the Summer Olympics are held), and many international tournaments that take place between countries and among wrestlers of the same country (such as the United States Nationals in freestyle and Greco-Roman).
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