As the COVID pandemic swept the globe and impacted lives and economies worldwide, United World Wrestling - led by president Nenad Lalovic and the UWW bureau - worked to create financial opportunities for small, heavily affected nations keen to continue in their...

The Benin Wrestling Federation with the support of United World Wrestling (UWW) and the United Francophones Federations (UFFL) recently conducted a weeklong course for level 2 coaches on the introduction of refereeing and wrestlers. The courses launched May 17 at the...

Under the GRASSROOTS Program, the Uruguayan Wrestling Federation officially presented the wrestling mats recently donated by UWW. This important ceremony was attended by the highest authorities of the Government of Uruguay and the Chairman of the Uruguayan Olympic...

The Kourtane Olympic Training Center hosted its first international training camp after a long and difficult spring.  

CETNIEWO, Poland (July 28) -- The long journey to open up wrestling activities is underway in Poland, with the recent delivery of a national coaches and referee course last week in Cetniewo. The course, attended by 18 coaches and referees, was organized for the...

ISTANBUL (November 29) -- Fresh from completing a full week of leadership activities at the Women in Wrestling Global Forum, several key members of the wrestling community offered their feedback forum dedicated to the empowerment of women in the sport to balance...

A Technical Course for Coaches Level 1 was organized in Windhoek, Namibia on 1-7 June 2019. There were 15 participants in this course including 2 female coaches.

14 nations with over 50 participants took part from 1-7 April 2019 in Hammamet, Tunisia. In 2019, UWW introduced the sport for climate actions programme, named Wrestle Green, in collaboration with the International Olympic Committee. Athletes learn about climate...

A Technical Course for Coaches Level 1 and an Introduction of Refereeing course have been held in Karapiro, New Zealand from 14 – 18 Oct 2019. 17 coaches and referees attended the course, 7 of which were females. This course is funded by Olympic Solidarity and United...

70 participants from 11 nations took part from 8-14 July 2019 in Burabay, Kazakhstan and was an outstanding success. It was also the first time, DPR Korea took part in the programme. It provides unity and cultural exchange among the future generations.

12 nations with a total of 60 participants took part from 21-26 June 2019, Mexico City, Mexico. 8 athletes obtained medals at the Pan American Championships. An environmental education activity ‘Wrestle Green’ was carried out during the camp. Young athletes from...

Introduction to Refereeing 2019 was held in New Delhi 10-12 June 2019, 19 referees including 4 female referees took part in this course.

The Italian Wrestling Federation and Italian Olympic Committee hosted a Technical Course for Coaches Level 2 from 29th of April to 3rd of May 2019 in Rome, Italy. 33 coaches attended this course.